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You a free book to answer questions you may have call now and well come to you 808 to 14000 facetoface for the first time and maybe the only time before election day, hours from now, Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Donald Trump will battle it out on the Debate Stage. And if that lasts its the one taught us anything. You know, these showdowns can be game changes. Were going to talk debate strategy, plus the mother of the suspected Georgia School Shooter are speaking out about her call to the school, halfhour before her son allegedly killed four people there as investigators released Body Camera Footage from a Police Encounter with the teen last year and its a Daring Truck that could make history astronauts on Spacexs Polaris Dawn mission are attempting to do what has never been done before duct the first ever private spacewalk. Were following these major developing stories and many more all coming in right here to Cnn News central its is on tonight on Stage And Philadelphia in a Battleground State of pennsylvania, Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Donald Trump will face off in a historic president ial debate. One that could be the most consequential moment of the 2024 race for the White House. It will be not only the first, but perhaps only debate between the two candidates also the first time these two have ever shared a Stage Facetoface with just eight weeks until election day. This 90 Minutes Showdown comes at a pivotal time in the campaigns cnns Brand New poll pulls out today, shows the race is virtually deadlocked. No clear leader in the race for the White House weve all angles of this story covered with a team of correspondents, Priscilla Alvarez is covering their, the harris campaign. And Kristen Holmes is covering the trump campaign. Priscilla, lets start with you talk to us about the Vice President s mindset going into tonight and how shes preparing well, boris sources telling me that she has been doing robust debate preparations. Of course, she spent the last several days in pittsburgh where she was with her group of advisers preparing for this consequential moment tonight. Now, part of that preparation also included identifying the issues that they can Needle Former President Donald Trump on. And one of those, according to sources, is going to be Reproductive Rights. She is expected to lean in on that going after his muddled messaging on this very issue, of course, the Vice President has been a key voice on this issue and democrats see it as a Galvanizing One for voters. And of course, she is trying to capitalize here too, on her edge in the polls that show that she does have an advantage over former President Donald Trump on this issue of Reproductive Rights. But in addition to that, she has sought out advice. She has the advantage of being able to also talk to Hillary Clinton former president barak obama, about this debate. Both particularly clinton who has gone up against Donald Trump in the past. Now, all of this will culminate horse in that first facetoface encounter tonight, one that the Vice President has been waiting for. Im told priscilla, thank you so much. Lets bring in cnns Kristen Holmes because kristen, this is Donald Trumps seventh president ial general election debate. That is a record. What do we know about his approach going into tonight . Well, they tell me that they really hasnt changed that much from what weve seen in debates past, particularly with president Joe Biden earlier this cyc that he is not using the word preparation, but instead is using every event that he holds in terms of Town Halls or speaking king in front of the New York economic club. As all ways to prepare for this debate. We also know hes been sitting down with senior advisers like Jason Miller, as well as as other lawmakers like Tulsi Gabbard Matt gaetz, all people who have helped him get ready and prepare for this potential debate. Even though again, he doesnt like to use the word prepare. Now, one thing i have been told by a number of sources close to die Donald Trump is that theyve essentially been warning him not to respond to any kind of goading comments from Kamala Harris. There really is a belief among trumps Inner Circle that one the reasons that harris, his team wanted on muted mics was to try and get underneath his skin to hear him respond to something she said while she was speaking. Remember, don trump is notoriously reactive. We have seen in the past. It is not that hard to get a response immediately from him. So what theyre trying to avoid and trying to talk to him and urged him to avoid is any kind of verbal response to her. In fact, i was even told by one ally that they had encouraged him to use facial expressions to respond, not to actually say anything out loud. Now, of course, as we know, Donald Trump is his own person and with even the most preparation grayson, again, not what theyre calling it, but even the most preparation he is not somebody who can be controlled so which version of Donald Trump gets on that stage and whether or not Kamala Harris is able to get underneath his skin. That is really something that his allies are concerned about. They also point to the fact that his aggressive rhetoric might not play the same way that it did with Joe Biden. Is up against a woman on that stage, Tulsi Gabbard was asked about this question. If hes going to change his tone or rhetoric. She essentially said no, why would he but thats really what these republicans are worried about. They want him to go in and just state it to the issues, not get goaded into anything, and not launched any personal attacks again, well see which version of Donald Trump takes the Stage Tonight got to be careful to not call the preparation preparation. Kristen holmes, live for us in philadelphia. Thank you so much, brianna with us now is Pollster And Communication strategist Frank Luntz and frank recently after trump posted on Social Media about prosecuting his opponents you tweeted message to donald, focus on helping voters, not yourself. You just heard Kristen Reporting that allies are concerned. Thats not so easy for him. Do you think that harris will be trying to and effectively goading him into talking about 20 20 he election falsehoods and grievances in this debate absolutely. But theres a response to that. And im curious to see how prepared these both these candidates are, how discipline they are, how focused they are on putting out their message because harris is absolutely going to say, let me finish or im talking or stop interrupting. And trump has a perfect line for that, which would be if he was paying attention yes. Youre talking youre always talking. And what the american people want is doing and youre not doing enough theres so many of these types of responses that trump can do. And in his case, which she can do to him is for all the mothers out there and The Dawn owners and the sisters and the nieces and the grandchildren . Stop interrupting, and start respected and thats a really powerful statement for her advantage, which is among women both of these candidates have clery weaknesses that ive not seen it Debate Situation like this. But both of them have Goto Lines and go to strengths in Trumps Case his advantage is on the issues on the policies. And harris his case. Her advantage is her character and her persona. And every candidate gets to focus on that advantage is the candidate who wins and ahead of this debate, trumps campaign spokesperson, Jason Miller said, On Cnn that it was harris not biden in charge of the country over the last threeandahalf years. Do you think that that is a preview of something that trump may trot out. And do you think that that is effective when it comes to the persuadable voters that trump is trying to win over absolutely not in fact harris, his Goal Tonight or Mission Tonight is to show that she is relevant, is to show that she had some role in the biden ministrations, be able to prove that shes not only been number two, but is fully prepared to be Number One. So i dont believe that arguments can work at all. In fact, i could make the argument that if trump does try to say that hes actually helping harris rather than hurting her we asked the public, can you name one thing that Kamala Harris has done . Thats had a meaningful, measurable impact on you and 70 could not so now hes switching and saying that shes in charge. That would be an awful strategy for him tonight and its hard to imagine harris not being asked, certainly being taken to task. We expect that by Donald Trump, it just not even been asked here we expect she will be to account for positions on banning Fracking And Border security positions of hers that have changed here in recent years, she repeated her line recently in her interview with our dana bash, my values have not changed changed do you think that shes going to have to expand on that . Is that sufficient tonight is not sedition. And she said it three times that when someone says something, three times, i know is somebody who studies human Behavior And Anthropology and sociology you assert too much that becomes too rehearsed. Its a Goto Line that will absolutely fail, as she says, that in fact, its far better for her to say is there anyone out there whos not changed her mind on something important over the length of their career that actually what you want is someone who listens and learns and then leads what you want is someone who reexamines the issues based on whats happening. The Economy Based Whats happening in society, she should turn those changes because they are changes into something positive that im not going to tell you the same Thing Today that i wouldve said 20 years ago because were not the same country and the conditions have changed i think that this would be for again for harris and awful strategy to try to claim again and again that her values havent changed and by the way. Its not values, its priorities, values tells people what youre about priorities explains how you will affect them so im sure that her campaign is probably too busy listening right now. But if she were an effective debater she focused on the priorities rather than the values im trump has debated a female candidate before we saw that with Hillary Clinton. Of course, he lost the debate soundly, but he won the election. He has not debated and a female candidate since, however, the Supreme Court justices that he appointed overturned federal abortion rights hows that going to affect this debate . And what can these candidates do about that . These are perfect questions for exactly what the two candidates have to figure out and trump is at his weakest and harriss at her strongest when shes talking about abortion, because thats what turns out younger women harris, his strongest addition to what biden was doing was among women, among women 18 to 40 and to keep them the Abortion Issue is so important. And for women 55 and older, the Number One issues, Health Care so thats where shes at her strength. But there are a lot of women who care about inflation. In fact, inflation the Number One issue for the female border, and thats where trump is strongest for him to talk about shopping for gas food, and Fuel Shopping for a house that every woman wants to have a home a home, a place to call their own and under the biden administration is become incredibly expensive that is where trump does best among these voters. So in The End you talk about the issue where he is strongest, you talk about the attribute you will, you can make a Difference And Trump should be talking about the failures of the biden Administration And Harris should be talking about the failures of Donald Trump. In fact, in a single sentence, do you really want this chaos again and again for the next four years . Trump response with are you better off today than you were four years ago . There is so equally matched. Theres so americans, so evenly divided that i would argue that tonight is going to be the most important night in american politics, potentially of the lifetime of You And Me well, that is quite the setup for this evening. Frank luntz. Thank you so much. We know then youll be watching very carefully and curious to hear what you say tomorrow thanks again, frank, and you can follow cnn for complete coverage, an exclusive analysis before and after the debate the abc News President ial debates simulcast is tonight at nine eastern On Cnn and still to come this hour, the mother of the suspected Georgia School Shooter are speaking out for the first time here what she says drove her to call the school to tell them to run to her sons classroom. Also ahead, ukraine Hits Moscow and its biggest Drone Attack against its russia since the beginning of the war, how the u. S. Is responding next and later, a historic lift off a crew of four civilians. There orbiting Earth Earth right now. 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