United States: a colourful Harris-Trump debate

On Tuesday 10 September, for the first time, Donald Trump and Kamala Harris took part in a televised debate, a decisive stage in the presidential campaign. The US and foreign media are adamant that the debate largely went in favour of the Democratic candidate who, although she did not put forward anything new on the substance of her programme, impressed with her firmness and offensive attitude. She insisted on her rival’s unstable character and legal setbacks, but also on the failures of Trump’s presidency in the areas of the economy, security and immigration.

Pushed into a corner and visibly rattled, Trump defended himself by relaying some totally insane fake news (he claimed, among other things, that migrants eat pets, or that doctors abort children who have already been born…). Contradicted and corrected several times by the journalists on stage, Donald Trump denounced a rigged debate. But if he has lost this duel, there is still no guarantee that he has lost the election…

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