Below, during the first on-record face-off, United States presidential candidates Donald Trump and Kamala Harris clashed on everything from the nation's economy and trade wars to abortion rights.
Democratic Vice President Kamala Harris put Republican Donald Trump on the defensive at a combative presidential debate on Tuesday with a stream of attacks on abortion limits, his fitness for office, and his myriad legal woes, as both candidates sought a campaign-altering moment in their closely fought election.
A former prosecutor, Harris, 59, appeared time and again to get under the skin of the former president, an visibly enraged Trump, 78 unleashed a cascade of false charge responses in return.
One point, she brought up Trump's campaign rallies and proceeded to needle him by saying that people often leave early "out of exhaustion and boredom".
Trump, who has been frustrated by the size of Harris' own crowds, said, "My rallies, we have the biggest rallies, the most incredible rallies in the history of politics." Then he segued into an unsubstantiated claim that Haitian immigrants in Springfield, Ohio, are "eating the pets" of residents.
Candidates tussled over immigration, foreign policy, and healthcare, but the debate was scant on real policy detail. Instead, Harris's aggressiveness paid off by placing the spotlight on Trump.
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