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On Tuesday night the former president Donald Trump and the current Vice President Kamala Harris faced off in Philadelphia for the first presidential debate since Joe Biden’s disastrous fall from grace earlier this year.
The debate, moderated by ABC, took place over ninety minutes, and saw the candidates clash on immigration, Trump’s rallies and Afghanistan. A snap CNN poll commissioned after the debate saw 63 percent say Harris had won, compared to 37 percent for Trump.
Here are the key moments from the debate:
Kamala Harris goads Trump over his rallies
As the section of the debate on immigration began — arguably one of Kamala Harris’s weakest areas — the current VP abruptly changed topic to the subject of Donald Trump’s rallies. Harris suggested that voters go to Trump’s events, so they can see people leave early because they are bored. And she ended by saying, “the one thing you will not hear him talk about is you.”
Trump takes the bait — and says immigrants are eating people’s pets
After being needled by Harris about his rallies, Trump immediately took the bait and used his response on immigration to defend his events. He first quipped that “people don’t go to her rallies — there’s no reason to go,” before arguing that “people don’t leave my rallies.”
He then moved into immigration, suggesting that World War Three was imminent and immigrants in Springfield, Ohio, were eating people’s dogs and cats. (At the end, the moderator said ABC had spoken to the city’s manager, who said there had been no credible reports of immigrants eating people’s pets in Springfield.)
Trump though it seemed couldn’t help but keep returning to the dig about his rallies, arguing again that “as far as the rallies are concerned, the reason they go is that they like what I say, they want to bring our country back.”
WATCH: Five key moments from the Trump-Harris debate
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