To each his own. As the televised duel on ABC News approaches Tuesday night, Kamala Harris retreated to Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, where she has been preparing for the past five days. With Joe Biden having destroyed her credibility and her candidacy live on television in late June, she knows that this exercise is not to be taken lightly. The other US presidential candidate, Donald Trump, said that he had “prepared my whole life for this debate.” So he continued to campaign, with a press conference in New York on Friday and a major rally in Wisconsin on Saturday.
Despite this apparent nonchalance, the Republican is perfectly aware, like the Democrat, that this live television confrontation can swing opinion, provided that he manages to unsettle his opponent without exposing himself. The Philadelphia debate could indeed begin to separate two neck-and-neck candidates.