Trump, Harris have never met face-to-face. How are they preparing to debate?

[KARAH RUCKER]

WE’RE LESS THAN A MONTH AWAY FROM THE SECOND PRESIDENTIAL DEBATE OF THE YEAR –

AND THE **FIRST DEBATE BETWEEN THE NEW DEMOCRATIC NOMINEE KAMALA HARRIS AND FORMER PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP.

NOT ONLY WILL IT BE THEIR FIRST TIME SHARING A STAGE –

IT’LL reportedly BE THE FIRST TIME HARRIS AND TRUMP HAVE EVER **SPOKEN TO EACH OTHER IN PERSON.

SO THE TWO ARE BEGINNING DEBATE PREP WORK – BRINGING IN IMPORTANT PEOPLE FAMILIAR WITH THE HIGH STAKES SETTING.

THE PRESIDENTIAL DEBATE WILL BE HOSTED BY ABC ON SEPTEMBER 10th.

IN THE WEEKS LEADING UP –

BOTH CAMPAIGNS ARE ALREADY PREPPING  –

THE TRUMP TEAM BRINGING IN TULSI GABBARD –

A FORMER DEMOCRAT WHO ONCE SHARED THE STAGE WITH HARRIS IN A 2019 DEMOCRATIC PRESIDENTIAL PRIMARY DEBATE –

THIS ONSTAGE ENCOUNTER GOING VIRAL.

“Senator harris says she’s proud of her record as a prosecutor but i’m deeply concerned about this record. There are too many examples to cite but she put over 1,500 people in jail for marijuana violations and then laughed about it when she was asked if she ever smoked marijuana. She would have freed an innocent man from death row until the courts forced her to do so, she kept people in prison beyond their sentences to use them as cheap labor for the state of california and she fought to keep the system in place that impacts poor people in the worst kind of way.”

GABBARD HAS REPORTEDLY HAD VISITS AT MAR-A-LAGO FOR “PRACTICE SESSIONS” WITH TRUMP.

ALTHOUGH THE FORMER PRESIDENT IS KNOWN FOR NOT DOING TRADITIONAL DEBATE PREP SUCH AS MOCK DEBATES. 

NOBODY PLAYED THE ROLE OF PRESIDENT BIDEN IN THAT DEBATE PREP.

INSTEAD – TRUMP IS SAID TO PREFER DISCUSSIONS ABOUT POTENTIAL TOPICS AND LINES OF QUESTIONING.

BUT FOR THE HARRIS CAMPAIGN –

THEY ARE HOSTING MOCK DEBATES –

SOMEONE FAMILIAR TO THE JOB STANDING IN AS TRUMP.

PHILIPPE REINES – A LONG-TIME DEMOCRATIC OPERATIVE – IS REPRISING HIS ROLE AS TRUMP IN MOCK SESSIONS.

SOMETHING HE DID BACK IN 2016 IN PREPPING HILLARY CLINTON FOR HER PRIME TIME MATCHUPS AGAINST TRUMP.

HARRIS HAS ALREADY PARTICIPATED IN AT LEAST TWO MOCK-DEBATES WITH HER CAMPAIGN TEAM –

ONE AT HOWARD UNIVERSITY – HER ALMA MATER – LAST WEEK – WHERE REINES WAS ALSO SEEN.

NOT ONLY HAVE HARRIS AND TRUMP NEVER MET OR SPOKEN FACE-TO-FACE –

BUT THE ONLY TIME THE TWO HAVE EVER BEEN IN THE SAME ROOM WAS WHEN HARRIS ATTENDED TRUMP’S STATE OF THE UNION ADDRESS.

AS FOR A POTENTIAL SECOND DEBATE BETWEEN THE TWO? 

THAT’S STILL UP IN THE AIR AS THE TWO CAMPAIGNS GO BACK AND FORTH.

RIGHT NOW – IT’S ONLY THE SEPTEMBER 10TH DEBATE ON THE BOOKS.

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