Trump vs. Harris: What to expect from the historic debate

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

60% : Trump laid out his economic agenda on Thursday in a speech before the New York Economic Club.
53% : A late August Wall Street Journal poll found that Trump had a roughly eight- percentage point advantage when voters were asked who would best handle the economy.
50% : Trump wants to squelch Harris' momentum by portraying her rush to the center as disingenuous.
48% : Trump also announced his support for a quasi-US sovereign wealth fund, though he provided few details on how it would work.
48% : While Trump, especially a return to his tariff-driven trade policy, would lead the economy to contract slightly.
45% : Election forecaster Nate Silver has Trump as the slight favorite to win the Electoral College and thus the presidency.
44% : Trump has repeatedly said that CNN was fair during the June debate after his allies questioned whether the network could be impartial.
33% : Trump himself suggested he would be open to so-called "hot" or "open" mics, but ultimately stuck by the terms that he and Biden agreed to.
31% : Trump hemmed and hawed over the debate rules in the wake of Biden's exit, but given Harris' momentum, he could never afford to seriously miss the face off.
31% : Former Clinton aide Philippe Reines is playing Trump in mock debates, a role he also stepped into for Clinton in 2016.
30% : The first debate between Harris and Trump is set for Tuesday at 9 p.m. ET.
26% : Biden's team initially sought that rule change ahead of the June debate, but Harris' team had tried to push Trump into reverting back to a more free for fall format.
26% : Trump is well known for what in the sports world is called "working the referees," but his attacks also lay the foundation for him to dismiss the entire debate as rigged if it doesn't go well.
24% : Trump and Harris are also likely to debate again next month, though those details are still being finalized.
22% : Trump has taken particular shots at George Stephanopoulos, host of "This Week," even though the former Clinton aide is not one of the two moderators.
12% : Trump has struggled to settle on a clear attack against her and has lost ground since Biden's exit.
5% : Biden's campaign said in May that muting the mics and nixing the audience would return presidential debates to an acceptable level of decorum -- just about everyone agrees that the first debate in 2020 was an abject disaster as Trump repeatedly interrupted Biden.

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