{"id":9705,"date":"2024-09-08T06:44:05","date_gmt":"2024-09-08T10:44:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.radioguantanamo.icrt.cu\/english\/?p=9705"},"modified":"2024-09-09T09:50:26","modified_gmt":"2024-09-09T13:50:26","slug":"the-donald-and-kamala-amid-tight-race-for-first-u-s-presidential-debate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.radioguantanamo.icrt.cu\/english\/the-donald-and-kamala-amid-tight-race-for-first-u-s-presidential-debate\/","title":{"rendered":"The Donald and Kamala amid tight race for first U.S. presidential debate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-9706\" src=\"https:\/\/www.radioguantanamo.icrt.cu\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/kamala-harris-donald-trump.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"512\" height=\"223\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.radioguantanamo.icrt.cu\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/kamala-harris-donald-trump.png 512w, https:\/\/www.radioguantanamo.icrt.cu\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/kamala-harris-donald-trump-300x131.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 512px) 100vw, 512px\" \/>Guantanamo.- U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Donald Trump are gearing up for a faceoff in their first presidential debate in Philadelphia on Tuesday night.<\/p>\n<p>Harris, a former prosecutor, will go head to head with Trump in a showdown that observers say matters because the stakes are much bigger than usual and that mistakes will be consequential.<\/p>\n<p>According to the latest New York Times\/Siena College poll, the 78-year-old Republican candidate is leading Harris nationally by 48 to 47 percent, well within the margin of error.<\/p>\n<p>The poll found Kamala Harris, a Democrat, narrowly ahead in Wisconsin, Michigan and Pennsylvania and tied in four other swing states &#8212; Nevada, Georgia, North Carolina and Arizona.<\/p>\n<p>A former Republican communications director on Capitol Hill said: \u201cIt\u2019s the first time Donald Trump is going to be cross-examined in front of the American people.\u201d \u201cKamala Harris\u2019s career and experience as a prosecutor, attorney general and a senator is something that Trump should not underestimate in this debate,\u201d said Tara Setmayer.<\/p>\n<p>It will also be the first time in U.S presidential history that a former courtroom prosecutor, Harris, will take the debate stage alongside a convicted criminal.<\/p>\n<p>Trump was found guilty in May of falsifying business records 34 separate times and became the first former US president to be convicted of felony crimes.<\/p>\n<p>The U.S. presidential contest changed after President Joe Biden dropped out of the race in July following a dire debate performance against Trump.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Guantanamo.- U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Donald Trump are gearing up for a faceoff in their first presidential debate in Philadelphia on Tuesday night. Harris, a former prosecutor, will go head to head with Trump in a showdown that observers say matters because the stakes are much bigger than usual and that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9706,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9705","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-internacionales","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.radioguantanamo.icrt.cu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9705","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.radioguantanamo.icrt.cu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.radioguantanamo.icrt.cu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.radioguantanamo.icrt.cu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.radioguantanamo.icrt.cu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9705"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.radioguantanamo.icrt.cu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9705\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9707,"href":"https:\/\/www.radioguantanamo.icrt.cu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9705\/revisions\/9707"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.radioguantanamo.icrt.cu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9706"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.radioguantanamo.icrt.cu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9705"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.radioguantanamo.icrt.cu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9705"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.radioguantanamo.icrt.cu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9705"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}