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Here are the key debate attacks to expect. Hint: it may get personal. - The Boston Globe

Sep 10, 2024 View Original Article
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    50% Medium Conservative

  • Reliability

    35% ReliableFair

  • Policy Leaning

    50% Medium Conservative

  • Politician Portrayal

    -44% Negative

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Contributing sentiments towards policy:

55% : Trump has pointed to Harris' role as vice president to directly link her to Biden's policies, particularly on immigration and the economy.
51% : That's a problem for Harris as Americans express more trust in Trump to handle the economy.
44% : She is aided in that argument by the fact that Trump has dominated American politics for the last eight years.
44% : And he may criticize Harris for saying in her 2020 campaign that she would eliminate private health insurance in favor of a single-payer health care program.
43% : Here is how the two candidates may go after each other at the ABC News debate on Tuesday evening in Philadelphia.Harris, 59, casts herself as representing the future of American government and Trump, 78, as a relic of the past.
40% : She has characterized Trump as serving only himself.
38% : Trump often refers to the resolution as the "Green New Scam," and he argues that the inclusion of connected provisions in the Inflation Reduction Act -- which Harris backed -- increased government spending that spurred inflation.
37% : Given the debate's location in Pennsylvania, a large producer of natural gas, Trump is likely to bring up Harris' past call for a ban on hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, the process of extracting gas or oil from underground shale.
35% : While Trump has tried to distance himself from the document, polling suggests Harris' approach may be working.
35% : Almost immediately after Harris replaced Biden on the Democratic ticket, Trump began to depict her as more liberal than the president and out of touch with what most Americans wanted.
33% : She has also sought to use ridicule to her advantage, calling Trump "an unserious man" and suggesting he and his allies are "out of their minds."
33% : Trump frequently argues that Harris wants to "defund the police," a slogan that encompasses a broad umbrella of proposals to overhaul policing.
32% : She has warned that the consequences of that approach could be grave if Trump and his right-wing allies regain control of the federal government.
28% : More recently, Trump has argued that immigration is putting a strain on the economy.
28% : Trump also attacks Harris over her support for ending cash bail in her 2020 campaign, though he does not acknowledge that she proposed replacing it with other measures and misleadingly suggests she wanted a blanket release of all defendants.
26% : Trump, who often tries to stoke fear about immigration, is likely to argue that an increase in violent crime has been fueled by migrants, pointing anecdotally to several high-profile crimes that authorities say were committed by immigrants in the country illegally.
23% : But Trump has repeatedly used the phrase to try to hold her chiefly responsible for millions of immigrants in the country illegally whom he broadly depicts as an invading force that is a drain on government resources.
21% : In a line of attack she may repeat at the debate, Harris has accused Trump of wanting to lower taxes on billionaires and big corporations while raising them on the middle class.
21% : Trump also often attacks Harris' cosponsoring of the Green New Deal, a resolution backing expansive clean-energy programs to address climate change.
19% : Trump also may repeat his attacks on Harris for suggesting in 2019 that she believed people who had immigrated to the United States illegally should qualify for public health care.
16% : Expect to hear Trump say the phrase "border czar" at some point during the debate, as he tries to pin the rise in border crossings during the Biden administration on Harris.
12% : That is a contrast from the approach taken by Biden, who made more solemn and lofty arguments about how Trump posed a threat to American democracy.

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