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Kamala Harris and Donald Trump presidental debate [Video]

Kamala Harris and Donald Trump will meet for the first time face-to-face Tuesday night for perhaps their only debate, a high-pressure opportunity to showcase their starkly different visions for the country after a tumultuous campaign summer.The event, at 9 p.m. Eastern in Philadelphia, will offer Americans their most detailed look at a campaign thats dramatically changed since the last debate in June. In rapid fashion, President Joe Biden bowed out of the race after his disastrous performance, Trump survived an assassination attempt and both sides chose their running mates.Harris is intent on demonstrating that she can press the Democratic case against Trump better than Biden did. Trump, in turn, is trying to paint the vice president as an out-of-touch liberal while trying to win over voters skeptical he should return to the White House.Trump, 78, has struggled to adapt to Harris, 59, who is the first woman, Black person and person of South Asian descent to serve as vice president. The Republican former president has at times resorted to invoking racial and gender stereotypes, frustrating allies who want Trump to focus instead on policy differences with Harris.The vice president, for her part, will try to claim a share of credit for the Biden administrations accomplishments while also addressing its low moments and explaining her shifts away from more liberal positions she took in the past.The debate will subject Harris, who has sat for only a single formal interview in the past six weeks, to a rare moment of sustained questioning.If she performs great, its going to be a nice surprise for the Democrats and theyll rejoice,” said Ari Fleischer, a Republican communications strategist and former press secretary to President George W. Bush. “If she flops, like Joe Biden did, it could break this race wide open. So theres more riding on it.Tim Hogan, who led Sen. Amy Klobuchars debate preparations in the 2020 Democratic presidential primaries, said Harris, a former California attorney general, would bring a prosecutor’s instincts to the debate stage.That is a very strong quality in that setting: having someone who knows how to land a punch and how to translate it,” Hogan said.The first early ballots of the presidential race will go out just hours after the debate, hosted by ABC News. Absentee ballots are set to be sent out beginning Wednesday in Alabama.Trump plans to hit Harris as too liberalTrump and his campaign have spotlighted far-left positions she took during her failed 2020 presidential bid. Hes been assisted in his informal debate prep sessions by Tulsi Gabbard, the former Democratic congresswoman and presidential candidate who tore into Harris during their primary debates.Harris has sought to defend her shifts away from liberal causes to more moderate stances on fracking, expanding Medicare for all and mandatory gun buyback programs and even backing away from her position that plastic straws should be banned as pragmatism, insisting that her values remain the same. Her campaign on Monday published a page on its website listing her positions on key issues.The former president has argued a Harris presidency is a threat to the safety of the country, highlighting that Biden tapped her to address the influx of migrants as the Republican once again makes dark warnings about immigration and those in the country illegally central to his campaign. He has sought to portray a Harris presidency as the continuation of Bidens still-unpopular administration, particularly his economic record, as voters still feel the bite of inflation even as it has cooled in recent months.Trumps team insist his tone wont be any different facing a female opponent.President Trump is going to be himself, senior adviser Jason Miller told reporters during a phone call Monday.Gabbard, who was also on the call, added that Trump respects women and doesnt feel the need to be patronizing or to speak to women in any other way than he would speak to a man.His advisers suggest Harris has a tendency to express herself in a word salad of meaningless phrases, prompting Trump to say last week that his debate strategy was to let her talk.The former president frequently plows into rambling remarks that detour from his policy points. He regularly makes false claims about the last election, attacks a lengthy list of enemies and opponents working against him, offers praise for foreign strongmen and comments about race, like his false claim in July that Harris recently happened to turn Black.Harris wants to argue Trump is unstable and unfitThe vice president, who has been the Biden administrations most outspoken supporter of abortion access after the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade in 2022, is expected to focus on calling out Trumps inconsistencies around womens reproductive care, including his announcement that he will vote to protect Floridas six-week abortion ban in a statewide referendum this fall.Harris was also set to try to portray herself as a steadier hand to lead the nation and safeguard its alliances, as war rages in Ukraine more than two years after Russias invasion and Israels war with Hamas in Gaza drags on with no end in sight.She is likely to warn that Trump presents a threat to democracy, from his attempts in 2020 to overturn his loss in the presidential election, spurring his angry supporters to attack the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, through comments he made as recently as last weekend. Trump on social media issued yet another message of retribution, threatening that if he wins he will jail those involved in unscrupulous behavior, including lawyers, political operatives, donors, voters and election officials. Harris has spent the better part of the last five days ensconced in debate preparations in Pennsylvania, where she participated in hours-long mock sessions with a Trump stand-in. Ahead of the debate, she told radio host Rickey Smiley that she was workshopping how to respond if Trump lies.Theres no floor for him in terms of how low he will go, she said.

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Paris Olympics Day 2 recap [Video]

On the first sunny day of the Paris Olympics, the stars from the United States shined bright.Simone Biles and LeBron James dazzled, so did the U.S. women’s soccer team. Torri Huske grabbed some of the spotlight, and Haley Batten made a name for herself by earning a silver medal in mountain biking for the best finish ever by an American rider.Although it was French swimmer Lon Marchand who received the most boisterous cheers in crushing the field to win gold in the men’s 400-meter individual medley, the U.S. had a strong Sunday on Day 2 of the Games.Simone ShinesBiles made her Olympic return three years after pulling out of multiple finals at the Tokyo Games to protect her safety, which prompted an international discussion about mental health, by powering through discomfort she felt in her calf to lead the U.S. women’s gymnastics team into the finals.Biles, Suni Lee and Jordan Chiles went 1-2-3 in the all-around during early qualifying, though Chiles will miss the all-around final due to rules that limit countries to entering two athletes per competition.There’s a chance Chiles will make the floor exercise final should she finish in the top eight. Lee is practically a lock for the beam and bars finals, with 2020 floor exercise champion Jade Carey in good position to join Biles in the vault final.But all eyes were on Biles, who briefly scared an entire nation when she left the after her floor exercise and received medical attention. She had tweaked her calf in warm-up, but U.S. coach Cecile Landi said it was a minor injury.She performed in front of a star-studded crowd that included Tom Cruise, Jessica Chastain, Snoop Dogg, Anna Wintour and Lady Gaga, who wrote on social media of Biles: “She nailed it, what an honor to be so close!”LeBron James Leads Team USATwo of the most experienced Olympians on the U.S. men’s basketball team, James and Kevin Durant, began the squad’s bid for a fifth consecutive gold medal with a near-flawless performance.Durant made his first eight shots and scored 23 points, James added 21 points, nine assists and seven rebounds and the U.S. rolled to a 110-84 win over Serbia in the Olympic opener for both teams.James and Durant were a combined 18 for 22 from the field 8 of 9 for Durant, 9 of 13 for James as the U.S. had no trouble with the reigning World Cup silver medalists.Jrue Holiday scored 15, Devin Booker had 12 and Anthony Edwards and Stephen Curry each added 11 for the U.S.Pool PartyHuske knocked off world-record holder Gretchen Walsh in the women’s 100 butterfly, using a strong finish to get her hands to the wall just ahead of her teammate in a 1-2 finish for the U.S.The favorite went out with her usual strategy: start fast and try to hold on. It worked at the U.S. trials, where she set her world record of 55.18 last month, and she was under record pace at the turn.But Huske chased her down in the race that really mattered. The winner touched in 55.59 about the length of a finger ahead of Walsh’s time of 55.63.When Huske saw the “1” beside her name on the scoreboard, she reached across the lane rope to give Walsh and hug while breaking down in tears.Marchand, meanwhile, lived up to the huge expectations at his home Olympics with a flag-waving crowd cheering his every stroke. He was under world-record pace on the final turn but faded a bit coming home, touching in 4 minutes, 2.95 seconds an Olympic record, but just shy of his own world mark of 4:02.50.Marchand claimed that mark at last year’s world championships in Fukuoka, Japan, erasing a record held by Michael Phelps for 15 years.And, in an upset, Italian swimmer Nicolo Martinenghi shocked record-holder Adam Peaty in the 100 breaststroke.Peaty, the gold medalist in both Rio de Janeiro and Tokyo, had taken a long layoff to deal with mental health issues. Upon his return, he worked his way back up to speed and entered the final as the top qualifier but settled for silver as his quest for a third consecutive gold was ended.US Soccer WinsSophia Smith scored a pair of goals to lead the U.S. past Germany 4-1 and put the team in good position to advance out of its group at the Olympics.Mallory Swanson and Lynn Williams also scored for the Americans, who defeated Zambia 3-0 in the opener but won’t know their fate in the knockout round for sure until after the final Group B matches on Wednesday.The Americans play Australia in Marseille to conclude group play.Mountain Biker MedalsBatten broke a rule but still came home with America’s best ever mountain biking finish when she won silver.Batten was fined by the Olympic mountain bike judges for violating a rule on the final lap of her race. She was jockeying for second place when she went through a lane dedicated for taking on food and drink or stopping for mechanical problems.After the judges reviewed the footage, they decided Batten had done neither and broke one of the rules of the race. She was fined 500 Swiss francs, or about $565, for “failure to respect the instructions of the race organization or commissaires,” though the judges apparently decided that the infraction was not serious enough to warrant a disqualification.Batten finished ninth three years ago at the Tokyo Games.Tennis Veterans WinRafael Nadal was unsure he could even play men’s singles Sunday the day before his match, but turned up at Roland Garros and beat Marton Fucsovics of Hungary 6-1, 4-6, 6-4 in the first round.The victory set up a blockbuster showdown against rival Novak Djokovic.It will be the 60th meeting between this pair of greats, more than any other two men have played against each other in the sport’s Open era, which began in 1968. Djokovic, a 37-year-old from Serbia, leads the head-to-head series 30-29, and his 24 Grand Slam titles make him the only man in tennis history with more than Nadal’s 22.Andy Murray’s tennis career, meanwhile, was extended for at least one more match when he and British partner Dan Evans saved five match points during a first-round doubles win. Murray and Evans rallied past the Japanese pair of Taro Daniel and Kei Nishikori 2-6, 7-6 (5), 11-9.The Brits trailed 9-4 in the decisive tiebreaker, which is held in place of a third set in doubles.The 37-year-old Murray announced before the Summer Games that it would be the final event of his career, and then pulled out of the singles bracket, leaving him only in doubles.Murray is a three-time Grand Slam champion and the only tennis player with two Olympic singles golds from London in 2012 and Rio de Janeiro in 2016.

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Harris embraces “brat summer” trend as she campaigns for president [Video]

Vice President Kamala Harris is riding a wave of viral trends and memes as she pursues the Democratic nomination for president. Most notably, Harris is now being connected with the Gen Z "brat" movement, which was made popular by singer Charli xcx's new album. Kalen Allen, a content creator who has participated in social media strategy sessions with the Biden administration, joins CBS News with more on the Harris campaign's success online.

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It’s time to accelerate your agency’s revenue with scalable social media services! [Video]

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