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MPR News with Angela Davis
Angela Davis and Cari Dwyer
Updated:

Reviewing the Harris-Trump presidential debate

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Vice President and Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris speaks during a debate in 2020 and Republican presidential candidate and former President Donald Trump speaks during a 2024 debate.
STF via AP

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Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Donald Trump met for their first — and possibly only — debate in Philadelphia, less than two months before election day.

While it was the second presidential debate of the 2024 campaign, it was Harris’ first. She became the democratic nominee for president after President Biden ended his reelection bid following his June debate performance.

Polls show an incredibly tight race with just five percent of voters undecided. And while 90 percent of voters in a recent The New York Times/Siena College poll said they know just about everything they need to know about Trump, only 71 percent said they know everything they need to know about Harris.

MPR News host Angela Davis and her guests talk about the issues the candidates debated and what policies voters learned more about.

three people sitting in a broadcast studio
MPR News host Angela Davis (left) talks with Yohuru Williams (center), chair and professor of history and founding director of the Racial Justice Initiative at the University of St. Thomas, and Kathryn Pearson (right), associate professor of political science at the University of Minnesota, in an MPR News studio in St. Paul on Wednesday.
Nikhil Kumaran | MPR News

Guests:

  • Brian Bakst, MPR News politics editor

  • Kathryn Pearson, associate professor of political science at the University of Minnesota

  • Yohuru Williams, distinguished university chair, professor of history and founding director of the Racial Justice Initiative at the University of St. Thomas

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