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Trump and Harris' first presidential debate of 2024 is tomorrow. Here's what to know.

Sep 09, 2024 View Original Article
  • Bias Rating

    50% Medium Conservative

  • Reliability

    65% ReliableFair

  • Policy Leaning

    50% Medium Conservative

  • Politician Portrayal

    -14% Negative

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Contributing sentiments towards policy:

78% : Jason Miller, a senior adviser to Trump, said the campaign was "thrilled" that Harris' team, which is mostly carryovers from Mr. Biden's campaign, "finally accepted the already agreed upon rules of the debate that they wrote in the first place.
53% : "A coin flip determined where Trump and Harris will stand on stage and the order of closing statements.
45% : According to the latest CBS News estimate, Harris and Trump are tied in the state, which has 19 electoral votes.
45% : Trump won the coin toss and chose to give the last closing statement.
43% : The debate, hosted by ABC News, is now a showdown between Vice President Kamala Harris and Trump, who both agreed to move forward with it after weeks of back-and-forth about the event's specifics.
40% : Last month while campaigning in Virginia, Trump said he would "rather have it probably on, but the agreement was that it would be the same as it was last time.
36% : The last debate between Mr. Biden and Trump also took place in a battleground state, Georgia.
34% : Trump had proposed two other debates in September in addition to the ABC News debate.
27% : Mr. Biden announced on July 21 that he was suspending his campaign as he faced growing skepticism within his own party about his ability to handle the job for another term after his rambling debate performance against Trump in June.
23% : Harris and Trump will not be allowed to bring prewritten notes on stage, but will have a pen, notepad and bottle of water at their lecterns.
14% : There could still be one more debate between Harris and Trump.
12% : Harris and Trump will not be allowed to ask each other questions.

*Our bias meter rating uses data science including sentiment analysis, machine learning and our proprietary algorithm for determining biases in news articles. Bias scores are on a scale of -100% to 100% with higher negative scores being more liberal and higher positive scores being more conservative, and 0% being neutral. The rating is an independent analysis and is not affiliated nor sponsored by the news source or any other organization.

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