Presidential debate live updates: What time and how to watch Trump vs Harris tonight in Philadelphia

The Democratic entourage in Philadelphia tonight will embody two faces all-too-familiar to Donald Trump: Anthony Scaramucci and Olivia Troye.

“The Mooch”, now a political commentator and podcaster, was Trump’s short-lived White Home communications director in 2017 (as you’ll little question recall) whereas Troye was Mike Pence’s homeland safety adviser and lately spoke out towards the Republican ticket in individual on the Democratic Nationwide Conference in Chicago.

The 2 surrogates will once more trash Trump earlier than tonight’s large showdown.

Saying their look, the Harris-Walz marketing campaign’s communications director Michael Tyler mentioned: “Hear, don’t take it from us: Take it from those who know Donald Trump the perfect and who’re telling the American individuals precisely how unfit Trump is to function president.

“They noticed firsthand the abject failure of Donald Trump’s presidency.”

“It’s attainable, after all, that every one of those rumors will turn into false,” Trump’s cross-sounding working mate concedes in an prolonged rant on X about his Haitian-immigrants-eating-pets nonsense being met with ridicule by the media.

Getting sweary and less-than-presidential, Vance continues: “When you’re a reporter, or an activist, who didn’t give a s*** about these struggling People till yesterday, I’ve some recommendation: Spare your outrage on your fellow residents struggling underneath Kamala Harris’s insurance policies. Be outraged at your self for letting this occur.”

Right here’s Rhian Lubin on native police in Springfield, Ohio, debunking their senator’s rubbish.

A New York Occasions/Siena Faculty ballot launched over the weekend positioned Donald Trump one level forward of Kamala Harris on 48 proportion factors to 47.

However, in accordance with a more recent Pew Analysis survey, that hole has already been closed, with each the Republican and Democratic candidates on 49 per cent every.

Harris’s help consists of 29 per cent of voters who say they might “strongly” help her candidacy and 20 per cent who solely “reasonably” lean in direction of her.

Trump, in the meantime, has a seemingly extra loyal base, with 31 per cent “strongly” supporting him plus one other 18 per cent “reasonably” in favor, in accordance with Pew.

Right here’s Alicja Hagopian with all the newest on the polls.

Anderson Cooper not holding again right here.

Donald Trump has claimed that Mark Zuckerberg instructed him in a cellphone name shortly after the assassination try on the previous president that there’s “no manner I can vote for a Democrat”.

Trump instructed New York Journal that the Meta CEO referred to as him after he was shot within the ear at a July 13 marketing campaign rally in Butler, Pennsylvania.

“Mark Zuckerberg referred to as up and mentioned, ‘I’ve by no means supported a Republican earlier than, however there’s no manner I can vote for a Democrat on this election,’” Trump instructed the journal.

“He’s a man that, his dad and mom, everyone was at all times Democrat. He mentioned, ‘I’ll by no means vote for the individuals working towards you after watching what you probably did.’”

Zuckerberg has beforehand spoken in regards to the tried assassination of Trump.

“Seeing Donald Trump rise up after getting shot within the face and pump his fist within the air with the American flag is among the most badass issues I’ve ever seen in my life,” the tech entreprenuer instructed Bloomberg per week after the Butler rally.

Mark McKinnon, former adviser to George W Bush and John McCain, urges Kamala Harris to “kick some ass” tonight and impress her persona on the American individuals, an choice not open to Trump who is much too well-known to shock anybody.

On CNN’s Erin Burnett OutFront final evening, Van Jones mentioned of Harris: “This can be a job interview for her.

“She‘s received the category clown sitting subsequent to her – doing raspberries, throwing spitballs – however on the finish of the day, the viewers just isn’t Donald Trump, and the viewers just isn’t the 2 interviewers from ABC.

“The viewers is the American people who find themselves ‘Kamala curious’.

“They’re open, however they don’t know sufficient but for her to shut a deal.”

Again on Morning Joe, ex-Missouri senator Claire McCaskill urges Harris to be “the main character” in tonight’s showdown, not a supporting participant.

Talking of pundits, right here’s James Liddell on the legendary James Carville’s warning for Trump.

Paul Dans’s admission right here in dialog with Kaitlan Collins on CNN final evening doesn’t do Donald Trump any favours, because the Republican presidential nominee continues to insist he is aware of nothing about conservative plans to rejig the federal authorities to their liking, regardless of their being plotted with assist from numerous officers previously a part of his administration.

Within the newest odd promotional video for her costly new e-book, the previous first woman (now trying virtually AI-generated) hints vaguely at a conspiracy concept surrounding her husband’s capturing in Butler two months in the past.

Trump’s working mate joined his fellow on-line conservatives yesterday in spreading a racist and already-debunked rumor that unlawful immigrants from Haiti are abducting and consuming pets in an Ohio city.

Ridiculing the story on MSNBC’s Morning Joe earlier, Scarborough requested of Vance: “What is that this man’s obsession about cats? First he hates them, then he likes them, then he’s attempting to save lots of them. I don’t get it.”

Right here’s Mike Bedigan’s report on the unique furore.

Lights, cameras and memorized traces? Isn’t she simply describing regular debate prep?

Which begs the query: what on earth has Donald Trump been doing?