Harris and Trump to clash in high-stakes presidential debate

Harris, America’s first female, Black and South Asian vice president, spent five days holed up in a hotel doing intense practice sessions ahead of the debate.
One of her aides even reportedly dressed up in a Trump-style boxy suit and long tie to imitate her opponent.
Trump’s team said he has taken a more relaxed approach ahead of his seventh presidential debate, choosing to arrive in Philadelphia just hours before and keeping preparations limited.
The debate may lack the full-scale shouting matches of previous years, as the two candidates’ microphones will be muted when they are not speaking, at the Trump team’s request.
But it will still be a potential turning point – as well as a contrast in styles.
In one corner is a former prosecutor who has in the past delivered ice-cold put-downs to debate rivals including Biden himself and Trump’s former vice president Mike Pence.
“There’s no floor for him in terms of how low he will go,” Harris said in a radio interview. “He is probably going to speak a lot of untruths.”
In the other corner is Trump, the most brutal knife-fighter in US politics, who has been convicted of falsifying business records to cover up an affair with an adult film star, found liable for sexual abuse, and is accused of trying to overturn the 2020 election.
“You can’t prepare for President Trump,” his spokesman Jason Miller said. “Imagine like a boxer trying to prepare for Floyd Mayweather or Muhammad Ali.”