Thank you!
The New Yorker’s take on the debate: 
That’s great!
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.
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.
Town hall? 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.
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?
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.
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.
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*figuratively, folks, figuratively.
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.
“Mr. Burns Trump, your campaign seems to have the momentum of a runaway freight train . Why are you so popular?”
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.
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?)
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.
Forgot the “Sir.” 
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?”
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
Sounds like a great opportunity for Trump to erode his Latino support. I wish him well in that endeavor.
I hope it goes as well for him as the meeting with the National Association of Black Journalists.