# Trump and Harris agree to September 10th ABC debate - Watch Along Starts at Post 431 **URL:** \ **Category:** Politics & Elections\ **Tags:** trump, kamala-harris\ **Created:** [August 8, 2024, 8:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-and-harris-agree-to-september-10th-abc-debate-watch-along-starts-at-post-431/1005440 "2024-08-08T20:59:15Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 89
**Author:** ![rocking\_chair](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rocking_chair/32/2918_2.png) [@rocking\_chair](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rocking_chair)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2024, 1:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-and-harris-agree-to-september-10th-abc-debate-watch-along-starts-at-post-431/1005440/1761 "2024-09-26T01:40:20Z")
Thank you! ---
**Author:** ![wolfpup](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wolfpup/32/10618_2.png) [@wolfpup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wolfpup)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2024, 8:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-and-harris-agree-to-september-10th-abc-debate-watch-along-starts-at-post-431/1005440/1762 "2024-09-26T08:38:36Z")
The _New Yorker_’s take on the debate: 😆 [![](https://i.imgur.com/f5WLZWT.jpeg) ](https://i.imgur.com/f5WLZWT.jpeg) ---
**Author:** ![thorny\_locust](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thorny_locust/32/431_2.png) [@thorny\_locust](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thorny_locust)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2024, 3:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-and-harris-agree-to-september-10th-abc-debate-watch-along-starts-at-post-431/1005440/1763 "2024-09-26T15:10:06Z")
That’s great! ---
**Author:** ![Biffster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/biffster/32/339_2.png) [@Biffster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biffster)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2024, 7:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-and-harris-agree-to-september-10th-abc-debate-watch-along-starts-at-post-431/1005440/1764 "2024-09-27T07:33:03Z")
So I read that at the end of October, Harris and Trump will be hosting competing town halls, though not at the same time, in lieu of a second debate. ---
**Author:** ![Joey\_P](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/919ad9/32.png) [@Joey\_P](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Joey_P)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2024, 12:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-and-harris-agree-to-september-10th-abc-debate-watch-along-starts-at-post-431/1005440/1765 "2024-09-27T12:17:35Z")
Who’s airs first? While I’m sure Trump wants her to go first so he has time to work on all his name calling and schoolyard comebacks; I’d like to see Trump go first and Harris not even acknowledge it. ---
**Author:** ![Shoeless](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/shoeless/32/7099_2.png) [@Shoeless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shoeless)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2024, 12:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-and-harris-agree-to-september-10th-abc-debate-watch-along-starts-at-post-431/1005440/1766 "2024-09-27T12:34:20Z")
Town hall? So basically just another Trump rally? ---
**Author:** ![Atamasama](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/atamasama/32/12961_2.png) [@Atamasama](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Atamasama)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2024, 4:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-and-harris-agree-to-september-10th-abc-debate-watch-along-starts-at-post-431/1005440/1767 "2024-09-27T16:54:26Z")
> [@Shoeless](#): > > So basically just another Trump rally? Yes, I think in theory people are supposed to ask questions too but I’d expect they are people coached to give specific questions so it’s effectively just a rally. ---
**Author:** ![kenobi\_65](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kenobi_65/32/13178_2.png) [@kenobi\_65](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kenobi_65)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2024, 5:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-and-harris-agree-to-september-10th-abc-debate-watch-along-starts-at-post-431/1005440/1768 "2024-09-27T17:03:36Z")
> [@Shoeless](#): > > Town hall? So basically just another Trump rally? They’re typically moderated, and not just a speech, but if Trump’s doing one solo, and especially if it’s on Fox or another “friendly” media outlet, who knows? ---
**Author:** ![Shoeless](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/shoeless/32/7099_2.png) [@Shoeless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shoeless)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2024, 5:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-and-harris-agree-to-september-10th-abc-debate-watch-along-starts-at-post-431/1005440/1769 "2024-09-27T17:17:14Z")
If it’s on Fox (and I can’t imagine it would be anywhere else) I expect moderation to be minimal to nonexistent. And while people may be able to ask questions, I doubt Trump will give reasoned, thought-out answers to any of them. So basically, another Trump rally. ---
**Author:** ![thorny\_locust](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thorny_locust/32/431_2.png) [@thorny\_locust](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thorny_locust)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2024, 5:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-and-harris-agree-to-september-10th-abc-debate-watch-along-starts-at-post-431/1005440/1770 "2024-09-27T17:58:36Z")
If Trump is holding a “town hall”, I strongly suspect that the people who will be allowed in will be carefully vetted. For a real town hall, you need to let everybody in who wants to show up (these days, possibly checking them all for weapons first; and definitely doing so for presidential candidates.) And you need to take questions without knowing what they are first. Trump would get eaten alive• in a real town hall. Even around here. / / \*figuratively, folks, figuratively. ---
**Author:** ![filmore](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/7993a0/32.png) [@filmore](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/filmore)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2024, 6:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-and-harris-agree-to-september-10th-abc-debate-watch-along-starts-at-post-431/1005440/1771 "2024-09-27T18:04:16Z")
The audience will probably be self-selected supporters of each candidate. Even if they are undecided, they would probably lean towards the candidate if they went to the town hall. I can’t imagine Harris supporters going to a Trump town hall, and vice-versa. If it was both candidates at the same time, then the audience would have the full range of potential voters. But when it’s just one candidate, it’s going to essentially be a nationally-televised rally in front of a friendly audience for each of them. However, I could see some MAGA troublemakers going to the Harris town hall just to cause trouble. I don’t really see the opposite happening. ---
**Author:** ![Robot\_Arm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robot_arm/32/18280_2.png) [@Robot\_Arm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robot_Arm)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2024, 6:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-and-harris-agree-to-september-10th-abc-debate-watch-along-starts-at-post-431/1005440/1772 "2024-09-27T18:10:03Z")
> [@Atamasama](#): > > Yes, I think in theory people are supposed to ask questions too but I’d expect they are people coached to give specific questions so it’s effectively just a rally. “Mr. ~~Burns~~ Trump, your campaign seems to have the momentum of a runaway freight train . Why are you so popular?” ---
**Author:** ![thorny\_locust](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thorny_locust/32/431_2.png) [@thorny\_locust](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thorny_locust)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2024, 6:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-and-harris-agree-to-september-10th-abc-debate-watch-along-starts-at-post-431/1005440/1773 "2024-09-27T18:24:36Z")
> [@filmore](#): > > I can’t imagine Harris supporters going to a Trump town hall, and vice-versa. I can easily imagine it – hoping to ask them something they can’t give a good answer to, hoping to tell them what they think of them, or some combination of the above. Local politicians sometimes have genuine town halls around here and they draw both supporters and opponents. ---
**Author:** ![filmore](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/7993a0/32.png) [@filmore](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/filmore)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2024, 6:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-and-harris-agree-to-september-10th-abc-debate-watch-along-starts-at-post-431/1005440/1774 "2024-09-27T18:28:28Z")
I could see asking a regular politician tough questions, but I can’t really see it with Trump. Any legitimate question is just going to get a word-salad reply. Pretty much every answer in the last debate was nonsense. I don’t really see a legitimate voter thinking they can go to the Trump town hall to get meaningful answers to their questions. For the Harris town hall, yeah, I can see someone going there to get legitimate answers to their question. And I doubt they’ll allow anyone to ask really tough or embarrassing questions, like about Trump’s convictions or sexual offenses. I’m pretty sure that in these town halls, the attendees have to submit their questions on a card and the producers will pick which questions will be allowed. (anyone know for sure?) ---
**Author:** ![Joey\_P](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/919ad9/32.png) [@Joey\_P](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Joey_P)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2024, 7:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-and-harris-agree-to-september-10th-abc-debate-watch-along-starts-at-post-431/1005440/1775 "2024-09-27T19:02:11Z")
> [@thorny\_locust](#): > > I can easily imagine it – hoping to ask them something they can’t give a good answer to, hoping to tell them what they think of them, or some combination of the above. The problem, and I think many Biden/Harris supporters that would do something like that, is that they know the question is irrelevant. If he even acknowledges the question, it’ll only be for a sentence or two before he’s off on something unrelated. A few weeks ago, someone asked him what “specific piece of legislation” he would advance to address rising child care costs. His answer was a few minutes of unrelated and mostly incoherent rambling about tariffs that culminated in him saying he has bigger problems to deal with and if she saw how much these bigger problems cost, she wouldn’t be worried about child care costs\*. If, keeping everything else exactly the same, if you switched Trump for someone that could put a sentence together and answer questions, this question would’ve stumped them since they don’t have a plan to address child care costs. But it’s Trump, it doesn’t matter what the question is, he’s going to talk about whatever he wants to talk about. \*[“we’re gonna be taking in trillions of dollars and as much as child care is talked about as being expensive it’s, relatively speaking, not very expensive compared to the kind of numbers we’ll be taking in”](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kWzSQkDXLNM) ---
**Author:** ![DSeid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dseid/32/20194_2.png) [@DSeid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DSeid)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2024, 8:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-and-harris-agree-to-september-10th-abc-debate-watch-along-starts-at-post-431/1005440/1776 "2024-09-27T20:22:06Z")
> [@Robot\_Arm](#): > > “Mr. ~~Burns~~ Trump, your campaign seems to have the momentum of a runaway freight train . Why are you so popular?” Forgot the “Sir.” 😀 ---
**Author:** ![Smapti](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smapti/32/17938_2.png) [@Smapti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smapti)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2024, 8:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-and-harris-agree-to-september-10th-abc-debate-watch-along-starts-at-post-431/1005440/1777 "2024-09-27T20:29:03Z")
> [@filmore](#): > > I could see asking a regular politician tough questions, but I can’t really see it with Trump. Any legitimate question is just going to get a word-salad reply. A few months ago, someone asked me; if I could ask Trump one question, what would it be? My pick was “Why don’t you go fuck yourself?” ---
**Author:** ![JohnT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnt/32/15048_2.png) [@JohnT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnT)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2024, 8:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-and-harris-agree-to-september-10th-abc-debate-watch-along-starts-at-post-431/1005440/1778 "2024-09-27T20:52:11Z")
Doesn’t really seem like a rally, just a place where each candidate gets to be asked questions by Hispanic voters. Sponsored (and broadcast) by Univision, Trump goes first in Miami, FL on October 8th, and Kamala is on October 10th, in Vegas. [https://www.axios.com/2024/09/25/univision-harris-trump-town-halls](https://www.axios.com/2024/09/25/univision-harris-trump-town-halls) ---
**Author:** ![bobot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bobot/32/21622_2.png) [@bobot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bobot)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2024, 9:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-and-harris-agree-to-september-10th-abc-debate-watch-along-starts-at-post-431/1005440/1779 "2024-09-27T21:07:43Z")
Sounds like a great opportunity for Trump to erode his Latino support. I wish him well in that endeavor. ---
**Author:** ![thorny\_locust](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thorny_locust/32/431_2.png) [@thorny\_locust](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thorny_locust)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2024, 9:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-and-harris-agree-to-september-10th-abc-debate-watch-along-starts-at-post-431/1005440/1780 "2024-09-27T21:18:32Z")
I hope it goes as well for him as the meeting with the National Association of Black Journalists. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-and-harris-agree-to-september-10th-abc-debate-watch-along-starts-at-post-431/1005440.md?page=88) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-and-harris-agree-to-september-10th-abc-debate-watch-along-starts-at-post-431/1005440.md?page=90)