Media Bubbles

The morning after Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Donald Trump’s first debate, it is far from clear if Trump will agree to a rematch.

Without the sound of collective laughter, Trump’s claims of zombie people eating dogs became surreal. In that moment Trump wasn’t just a fear-mongering old man; he was an old man who lost his place in his monologue and was just ad-libbing himself into embarrassment.

The former president suggested immediately after the debate and in a call-in to Fox News on Wednesday morning that he was not inclined to agree to another.

In style and substance, Harris looked the part of a president, the awkwardness of her early stumbles on the national stage gone. She spoke to her plans but more so to the values, principles and priorities that motivate her. She was firm and forward-looking. Harris was speaking directly to the American people.

ABC News’ David Muir and Linsey Davis did a great job moderating Tuesday night’s debate between Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Donald Trump. Their questions were sharp, their research was on point,

ABC News moderators David Muir and Linsey Davis fact-checked Donald Trump during Tuesday night’s presidential debate, quickly correcting the record for millions watching at home after the Republican pushed falsehoods on abortion,

Tuesday’s debate was expected to center on defining Kamala Harris. Instead, with words and with body language, she turned it into a referendum on Donald Trump.

“Just like the previous debate, there was no audience. Yep, they were speaking to a totally silent, empty room, or, as JD Vance calls that, a rally,” the “Tonight Show” host quipped in his monologue Tuesday.

The first presidential debate of 2024 ended Joe Biden's campaign. The second debate ought to end Donald Trump's campaign.

Tuning into Fox News following Tuesday’s presidential debate, it was hard to describe the mood. Somber comes to mind—a little like you might find at a funeral, perhaps for a beloved cat consumed by a political boogeyman.

Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Donald Trump met for their first presidential debate on Tuesday.

A presidential debate between Republican presidential nominee former President Donald Trump, on screen at left, and Democratic presidential nominee Vice President Kamala Harris, right, is seen from the spin room,

Vice President Kamala Harris reminded the public during the debate with former President Donald Trump that she owns a gun.

Vice President Kamala Harris’s campaign has signaled that it wants a second debate, in October. Trump said Wednesday that he is “less inclined” to participate.

Donald Trump said he is not inclined to have another debate with Kamala Harris after initially suggesting several additional match-ups to supplement Tuesday’s forum.

Better hedge at least a little: Trump thrills his supporters in part because he shreds media- and operative-class assumptions about presidential comportment or winning campaign strategies. By conventional standards, Hillary Rodham Clinton won her debates against Trump in 2016.

In a presidential debate, the split screen shot of the candidates — with one candidate speaking and the other reacting non-verbally — can easily become the story of the debate.

Former President Trump told "Fox and Friends" Wednesday morning that he is "less inclined" to participate in another debate against Vice President Kamala Harris before the November election.

Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Donald Trump met for the first time Tuesday in their first presidential debate of the 2024 election, hosted by ABC News.

WASHINGTON (AP) — Taylor Swift, one of the music industry’s biggest stars, endorsed Kamala Harris for president shortly after the presidential debate ended.

BBC Verify has been examining Trump and Harris's claims in their first head-to-head debate in the US election campaign.

A comment by former President Donald Trump during Tuesday night's debate repeated a baseless claim about Springfield, Ohio, and the jokes quickly flowed on social media.

Vice President Harris won Tuesday night’s debate against former President Trump, according to a YouGov poll, while a CNN flash poll also found that Harris was the victor.

Fracking is a controversial practice due to its impacts on the environment and the potential hazards posed to human health by the chemicals used in the water mixture.

Kamala Harris successfully got Donald Trump to waste valuable time litigating things like crowd size rather than zeroing in on the economy.

Kamala Harris launched a stream of attacks on Donald Trump's fitness for office, his support of abortion restrictions and his myriad legal woes, all of which provoked a series of falsehood-filled retorts.

ERIE, PENNSYLVANIA – SEPTEMBER 05: Democratic vice presidential nominee Minnesota Governor Tim Walz speaks to a gathered crowd of supporters during a campaign rally at the Highmark Amphitheater on September 5, 2024 in Erie, Pennsylvania. (Photo by Jeff Swensen/Getty Images) “See you on October 1, JD,” Walz wrote in response.

Trump accused ABC News of treating Harris favorably, telling Fox “it was three-to-one, it was a rigged deal,” referring to the two moderators, David Muir and Linsey Davis, claiming they disproportionately fact-checked him.

The Wall Street Journal (WSJ) editorial board deemed Vice President Harris as the winner of Tuesday’s presidential debate against former President Trump, while also contending she skirted

A Fox News voter panel has indicated that Vice President Kamala Harris came out on top in Tuesday night's debate against former President Donald Trump, which saw the two candidates clash on the economy, foreign policy, immigration and abortion.

Just hours after their debate face-off, Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Donald Trump were at the same place again Wednesday when they attended the ceremony commemorating the Sept. 11,

House Speaker Mike Johnson, a Republican from Louisiana, on Wednesday praised former President Donald Trump’s debate performance, criticized the moderators and mocked the showing by Vice President Kamala Harris.

During Tuesday's presidential debate with Vice President Kamala Harris, former President Donald Trump repeated his false claim that crime is rising. Crime has been going down everywhere else around the world, Trump said at ABC News' debate in Philadelphia, but "crime in this country is through the roof."

Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Donald Trump traded jabs over several policies important to the American public.

Vice President Kamala Harris egged on former President Donald Trump about crowd sizes, while Trump sought to take Harris to task for changing her political positions. WSJ’s Damian Paletta breaks down their first presidential debate.

Donald Trump has now shown up and participated in two biased debates (“Winners and losers in the presidential debate,” Web, Sept. 10).

Former President Donald Trump took aim at ABC News over its handling of the presidential debate between him and Vice President Kamala Harris.

"To get around the filibuster, we're going to have to have a process that allows very substantial debate from the Senate minority," Whitehouse said at an event hosted in Chicago by the Brennan ...

New Hampshire Gov. Chris Sununu, a Republican who has been critical of former President Donald Trump, said Wednesday that Vice President Kamala Harris won last night’s debate. “Kamala definitely won the debate,

Catch up on the latest news from the debate, controversy over moderator bias, and reactions to Donald Trump's "agitated" performance.

A variety of issues were broached during the debate between former President Trump and Kamala Harris, but there were several moments that stood out more than others.

If the “a handshake is your word” idiom is true, Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Donald Trump chose to take it literally.

The Job Creators Network’s lawsuit looks more like a mechanism to raise donations and grab headlines than like a proper use of the legal system. Everyone’s past, no matter how far back, is an open book.

Towson University Debate Team members Ameena Ruffin ‘15 and Korey Johnson ’16 made history at the Cross Examination Debate Association (CEDA) national championship Monday night.

Former President Trump and Vice President Kamala Harris both traveled to New York City to commemorate 9/11 following their first presidential debate showdown.

Donald Trump got to Kamala Harris’ core problem in his debate close, waving off all her promises about what she’d do in office: “Why hasn’t she done it already?”

Former President Donald Trump sounded off on the ABC News Presidential Debate, arguing it was a 'rigged deal' since he was the only candidate to be fact-checked.

Trump allies and Republican commentators were left fuming and compiling a long list of missed opportunities for moderators David Muir and Linsey Davis to rebuke Harris for her falsehoods.

ESPN NFL analyst Mina Kimes took issue with the lack of time spent talking about climate change during the presidential debate on ABC News.

When it came to Trump’s answers, several times the moderators insisted he was wrong and offered what can only be called corrections.