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Trial Balloon · Ep. 191: Blue Wave Update

Inside the Trump-Harris Debate Prep

September 7, 2024 · 6:47 am ET · Leave a Comment

“Vice President Kamala Harris is holed up for five days in a Pittsburgh hotel, doing highly choreographed debate practice sessions ahead of Tuesday night’s clash. There’s a stage and replica TV lighting and an adviser in full Lee Strasberg method-acting mode, not just playing Donald Trump but inhabiting him, wearing a boxy suit and a long tie,” the New York Times reports.

“The former president’s preparations are more improv. They are pointedly called not ‘debate prep’ but ‘policy time,’ meant to refresh him on his record. Nobody is playing Ms. Harris; sometimes his aides sit at a long table opposite him and bat questions back and forth, or other times he pulls up a chair closer to them. Mr. Trump has held just a handful of sessions so far, interrupting one at his Las Vegas hotel so he and his advisers could go up to his suite to watch Ms. Harris’s convention speech.”

Associated Press: Harris and Trump are getting ready for Tuesday’s debate in sharply different ways.

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