Donald Trump and Kamala Harris debated on September 10th, 2024. This election will probably be one of the most contentious elections in American History thanks to a couple of very bad situations occurring in the United States.
Not only was President Joe Biden dropped as the Presidential nominee for the Democrats (he’s not running for re-election) but he was replaced by his highly controversial Vice President, Kamala Harris. However, controversial candidates are nothing new considering her opponent is Donald Trump.
Problems during the Biden administration have been aired out by both the Harris and Trump campaigns, in which they promise to fix. According to NBC on September 9th, 2024, and News Nation on September 10th, 2024. The national problems include the very open southern border, there is rising inflation, the removal of Roe v. Wade, the growing Fentanyl and Opioid crisis, the war in Ukraine, the war in Gaza, a rise in crime with lower policing, renting/housing prices, and job security.
There are also other policies they wish to take a stand on, like Project 2025, gun ownership, social security, climate change, the Department of Education, taxes, trade, student loan debt, Communist China, NATO and other US allies, affordable care act, drugs like marijuana, civil servants, transgenders and what rights they have, and TikTok.
It’s quite a lot to cover, but it’s never been more important that they do. Really the most important problems the American people want to see changed are the housing crisis, the immigration crisis, the massive inflation, and the amount of jobs people are having to take on.
In fact, the inflation problem might be the most unifying problem for Americans and something both Harris and Trump have promised to fix if they were elected. According to the US Inflation calculator, inflation was at 7% in 2021, 6.5% in 2022, 3.4% in 2023, and 2.9% in 2024. Trump would solve this with tax cuts and Harris with financial assistance to those in need.
The polls show that Harris is only in the lead now, with 48.9 versus 46.2, which puts Harris in the lead with a 2.7 lead, at least according to the Economist on September 10th, 2024. However, looking at the debate last night, one can come to some conclusions.
Both candidates avoided uncomfortable questions like Harris’ border control during her Vice Presidency being non-existent and Trump ordering the shooting down of a bill that would help the border in order to make the democrats look bad.
When asked about the debate, people here at Coral Glades High said a couple of things.
Juan Llovet in the 11th grade said, “Trump saying that the immigrants are coming and eating people’s cats and dogs so how is that logical? How does that appeal to the reasoning that we shouldn’t let immigrants in.”
Mrs. Lehrman said, “I found the debate much more exciting than the previous debate with Trump and Biden. I like the way that Harris was able to trap Trump into going off-script. I also like the way moderators were trying to press Harris for answers about her previous vote plan policies. I do believe that Harris won this debate but I still have questions about their policies. I don’t like how Trump implied that migrants/immigrants were eating pets and I feel like this might lead to hostile attitudes and actions against immigrants.”
If there’s anything to take away from this, it’s the reaction, that being supporters of Kamala say she won the debate and that supporters of Trump say that ABC favored her over Trump, so as always, nobody can agree on who won the debate.
