Trump Harris Presidential Debate | Opening Remarks: 'We Have to Clean Donald Trump's Left-out Mess'
In the opening remarks of the highly anticipated Trump-Harris Presidential Debate, Kamala Harris made a bold statement, claiming, "We have to clean Donald Trump's left-out mess." Harris outlined her vision for an opportunity economy, focusing on the cost of living crisis, while Trump defended his track record and policies. As the debate heated up, both candidates traded barbs on key issues affecting everyday Americans. Stay tuned for more from this explosive encounter!
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00:00Kamala Harris, let's have a good debate.
00:07Have fun.
00:10Welcome to you both.
00:11It's wonderful to have you.
00:12It's an honor to have you both here tonight.
00:13Good evening.
00:14We are looking forward to a spirited and thoughtful debate.
00:17So let's get started.
00:18I want to begin tonight with the issue that voters repeatedly say is their number one
00:21issue, and that is the economy and the cost of living in this country.
00:25Vice President Harris, you and President Trump were elected four years ago, and your opponent
00:29on the stage here tonight often asks his supporters, are you better off than you were
00:34four years ago?
00:35When it comes to the economy, do you believe Americans are better off than they were four
00:38years ago?
00:40So I was raised as a middle class kid, and I am actually the only person on this stage
00:47who has a plan that is about lifting up the middle class and working people of America.
00:51I believe in the ambition, the aspirations, the dreams of the American people.
00:57And that is why I imagine and have actually a plan to build what I call an opportunity
01:02economy, because here's the thing.
01:04We know that we have a shortage of homes and housing, and the cost of housing is too expensive
01:10for far too many people.
01:12We know that young families need support to raise their children, and I intend on extending
01:18a tax cut for those families of $6,000, which is the largest child tax credit that we have
01:24given in a long time, so that those young families can afford to buy a crib, buy a car
01:30seat, buy clothes for their children.
01:32My passion, one of them, is small businesses.
01:36I was actually, my mother raised my sister and me, but there was a woman who helped raise
01:41us.
01:42We call her our second mother.
01:43She was a small business owner.
01:44I love our small businesses.
01:46My plan is to give a $50,000 tax deduction to startup small businesses, knowing they
01:52are part of the backbone of America's economy.
01:55My opponent, on the other hand, his plan is to do what he has done before, which is to
02:00provide a tax cut for billionaires and big corporations, which will result in $5 trillion
02:07to America's deficit.
02:08My opponent has a plan that I call the Trump sales tax, which would be a 20% tax on everyday
02:15goods that you rely on to get through the month.
02:20Economists have said that that Trump sales tax would actually result for middle-class
02:24families in about $4,000 more a year because of his policies and his ideas about what should
02:33be the backs of middle-class people paying for tax cuts for billionaires.
02:39President Trump, I'll give you two minutes.
02:41First of all, I have no sales tax.
02:42That's an incorrect statement.
02:44She knows that.
02:45We're doing tariffs on other countries.
02:47Other countries are going to finally, after 75 years, pay us back for all that we've done
02:52for the world.
02:53And the tariff will be substantial in some cases.
02:57I took in billions and billions of dollars, as you know, from China.
03:00In fact, they never took the tariff off because it was so much money they can't.
03:04It would totally destroy everything that they've set out to do.
03:07They're taking in billions of dollars from China and other places.
03:10They've left the tariffs on.
03:11When I had it, I had tariffs, and yet I had no inflation.
03:15Look, we've had a terrible economy because inflation has, which is really known as a
03:20country buster.
03:21It breaks up countries.
03:22We have inflation like very few people have ever seen before.
03:26Probably the worst in our nation's history.
03:29We were at 21 percent, but that's being generous because many things are 50, 60, 70, and 80
03:34percent higher than they were just a few years ago.
03:37This has been a disaster for people, for the middle class, but for every class.
03:41On top of that, we have millions of people pouring into our country from prisons and
03:46jails, from mental institutions and insane asylums.
03:50And they're coming in and they're taking jobs that are occupied right now by African Americans
03:56and Hispanics and also unions.
03:59Unions are going to be affected very soon.
04:00And you see what's happening.
04:01You see what's happening with towns throughout the United States.
04:04You look at Springfield, Ohio.
04:06You look at Aurora in Colorado.
04:09They are taking over the towns.
04:11They're taking over buildings.
04:12They're going in violently.
04:14These are the people that she and Biden led into our country and they're destroying our
04:20country.
04:21They're dangerous.
04:22They're at the highest level of criminality.
04:25And we have to get them out.
04:26We have to get them out fast.
04:27I created one of the greatest economies in the history of our country.
04:31I'll do it again and even better.
04:33We are going to get to immigration and border security during this debate, but I would like
04:37to let Vice President Harris respond on the economy here.
04:41I would love to.
04:42Let's talk about what Donald Trump left us.
04:46Donald Trump left us the worst unemployment since the Great Depression.
04:51Donald Trump left us the worst public health epidemic in a century.
04:57Donald Trump left us the worst attack on our democracy since the Civil War.
05:05And what we have done is clean up Donald Trump's mess.
05:09What we have done and what I intend to do is build on what we know are the aspirations
05:14and the hopes of the American people.
05:15But I'm going to tell you on this debate tonight, you're going to hear from the same old tired
05:20playbook, a bunch of lies, grievances and name calling.
05:25What you're going to hear tonight is a detailed and dangerous plan called Project 2025 that
05:32the former president intends on implementing if he were elected again.
05:36I believe very strongly that the American people want a president who understands the
05:42importance of bringing us together.
05:44No, we have so much more in common than what separates us.
05:47And I pledge to you to be a president for all Americans.
05:51President Trump will give you a minute here to respond.
05:52Number one, I have nothing to do, as you know, and as she knows better than anyone.
05:56I have nothing to do with Project 2025.
05:59That's out there.
06:00I haven't read it.
06:01I don't want to read it purposely.
06:02I'm not going to read it.
06:04This was a group of people that got together.
06:05They came up with some ideas, I guess, some good, some bad.
06:08But it makes no difference.
06:10I have nothing to do.
06:11Everybody knows I'm an open book.
06:12Everybody knows what I'm going to do.
06:14Cut taxes very substantially and create a great economy like I did before.
06:18We had the greatest economy.
06:20We got hit with a pandemic.
06:21And the pandemic was not since 1917, where 100 million people died.
06:27Has there been anything like it?
06:28We did a phenomenal job with the pandemic.
06:30We handed them over a country where the economy and where the stock market was higher than
06:36it was before the pandemic came in.
06:39Nobody's ever seen anything like it.
06:41We made ventilators for the entire world.
06:43We got gowns.
06:44We got masks.
06:45We did things that nobody thought possible.
06:47And people give me credit for rebuilding the military.
06:50They give me credit for a lot of things, but not enough credit for the great job we did
06:53with the pandemic.
06:55But the only jobs they got were bounce back jobs.
06:57Things with jobs bounce back and it bounced back and it went to their benefit.
07:02But I was the one that created them.
07:03They know it and so does everybody else.
07:05Vice President Harris, I'll let you respond.
07:07So Donald Trump has no plan for you.
07:12And when you look at his economic plan, it's all about tax breaks for the richest people.
07:17I am offering what I describe as an opportunity economy.
07:21And the best economists in our country, if not the world, have reviewed our relative
07:27plans for the future of America.
07:29What Goldman Sachs has said is that Donald Trump's plan would make the economy worse.
07:35Mine would strengthen the economy.
07:37What the Wharton School has said is Donald Trump's plan would actually explode the deficit.
07:4416 Nobel laureates have described his economic plan as something that would increase inflation.
07:50And by the middle of next year would invite a recession.
07:54You just have to look at where we are and where we stand on the issues.
07:58And I'd invite you to know that Donald Trump actually has no plan for you because he is
08:04more interested in defending himself than he is in looking out for you.
08:08It's just a sound bite.
08:09They gave her that to say, look, I went to the Wharton School of Finance and many of
08:14those professors, the top professors, think my plan is a brilliant plan.
08:18It's a great plan.
08:19It's a plan that's going to bring up our worth, our value as a country.
08:23It's going to make people want to be able to go and work and create jobs and create
08:27a lot of good, solid money for our company, for our country.
08:32Just to finish off, she doesn't have a plan.
08:36She copied Biden's plan.
08:38And it's like four sentences, like run, spot, run for sentences that are just, oh, we'll
08:45try and lower taxes.
08:46She doesn't have a plan.
08:47Take a look at her plan.
08:48She doesn't have a plan.