Top Foreign-Policy Moments From the Harris-Trump Debate

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

67% : "Trump also touted the support he has gotten from Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban, who has visited Trump in Florida twice this year and bragged that he has "deep involvement" in the Trump team's policy deliberations.
50% : "[Orban] said, 'Because you need Trump back as president.
37% : Still, on Tuesday night, Harris and Trump sparred over the latter's pledges to drastically hike up tariffs across the board, a plan that could see all U.S. imports face at least a 10 percent tariff while goods from China would be subject to at least a 50 percent tariff.
37% : "China and all of the countries that have been ripping us off for years" are going to face higher prices, Trump declared.
35% : Here's what the two candidates said on the biggest foreign-policy issues facing Washington right now:Asked whether he would like to see Ukraine win the war against Russia, Trump responded that he wants to stop the war and pledged to "settle" the war before taking office if he wins in November, without offering any details as to how he would accomplish that.
32% : "If she's president, I believe that Israel would not exist within two years from now," Trump added.
31% : Trump pursued a hawkish policy toward Beijing, particularly when it came to trade, and imposed a raft of tariffs on Chinese imports that triggered a trade war; Biden has largely kept those tariffs in place and has gone further with his own collection of trade restrictions targeting semiconductors and electric vehicles.
31% : "Trump said China bought their chips from Taiwan, not the United States.
30% : If "she doesn't like them, they should have gone out, and they should have immediately cut the tariffs," Trump said.
29% : He said, 'Russia was afraid of him,'" Trump added.
25% : They said, 'Why is the whole world blowing up?'" Trump said.
25% : Trump defended his record, claiming that he sought to withdraw to protect the lives of U.S. troops and falsely adding that the Taliban inherited $85 billion in U.S. military equipment left behind in the hasty withdrawal.
22% : When asked by the moderators, Trump offered no details as to how he would negotiate with Israel and Hamas or how he would address the increasingly dire humanitarian situation in Gaza.
13% : "She also accused Trump of selling semiconductor chips to China, perhaps to draw attention to the Biden administration's expansive chip export controls.
9% : Trump also criticized the Biden administration for how much it has spent on defending Ukraine compared with how much European countries have spent.
9% : "Even though Trump and Harris weren't directly asked about China during Tuesday's debate, both candidates clashed sharply over U.S. economic competition with Beijing early on in the night.
6% : Trump fired back by pointing out that the Biden administration has mostly kept the Trump-era tariffs in place.

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