The Trump vs. Harris Debate Is About to Begin: Live Updates

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

41% : Trump is demanding a government shutdown over mythical non-citizen votingHours before the debate, Donald Trump added a surreal note to the event by pitching a fit on Truth Social and demanding that congressional Republicans shut down the federal government at the end of September if Democrats don't accept a ridiculous and redundant proposal to federalize state election systems in order to address a completely made-up crisis over non-citizen voting:If Republicans in the House, and Senate, don't get absolute assurances on Election Security, THEY SHOULD, IN NO WAY, SHAPE, OR FORM, GO FORWARD WITH A CONTINUING RESOLUTION ON THE BUDGET.
39% : This is a very old theme for Trump despite its fictional underpinnings.
37% : Either Harris or the debate moderators should consider demanding that Trump cite some actual evidence that any of this is happening, not that hard-core MAGA folk need any for this version of the Great Replacement Theory.
21% : You can understand how this hoax appeals to Trump since it combines his signature immigration and "stolen election" themes.
12% : But now Trump has blown up that harmless if demagogic gesture by demanding that Johnson (and also Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell, who is likely to openly mock this gesture) refuse to go along with a stopgap spending plan at the end of the fiscal year that is necessary to keep the federal government operating.

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