Presidential Debate hosted by ABC News, Philadelphia PA: on Principles & Values

Donald Trump: I don't acknowledge that I lost in 2020; I got 75M votes

Q: For 3 and a half years after you lost the 2020 election you repeatedly falsely claimed that you won, many times saying you won in a landslide. In the past couple of weeks, you have said you “lost by a whisker,” that you “came up a little bit short.”

TRUMP: I said that?

Q: Are you now acknowledging that you lost in 2020?

TRUMP: No, I don't acknowledge that at all.

Q: But you did say that.

TRUMP: I said that sarcastically. You know, “oh we lost by a whisker.” That was said sarcastically. Look, there's so much proof. All you have to do is look at it. And they should have sent it back to the legislatures for approval. I got almost 75 million votes. The most votes any sitting president has ever gotten. I was told if I got 63, which was what I got in 2016, you can't be beaten. The election, people should never be thinking about an election as fraudulent.

KAMALA HARRIS: Donald Trump was fired by 81 million people. And clearly, he is having a very difficult time processing that.

Source: ABC News 2024 Presidential debate in Philadelphia Sep 10, 2024

Kamala Harris: I'm endorsed by 200 Republicans who oppose Trump's extremism

DONALD TRUMP: If she becomes president, this country doesn't have a chance of success. Not only success. We'll end up being Venezuela on steroids.

KAMALA HARRIS: Talk about extreme. You know, this is, I think, one of the reasons why in this election I actually have the endorsement of 200 Republicans who have formerly worked with President Bush, Mitt Romney, and John McCain--including the endorsement of former Vice President Dick Cheney and Congressmember Liz Cheney. And if you want to really know the inside track on who the former president is, if he didn't make it clear already, just ask people who have worked with him. His former chief of staff, a four-star general, has said he has contempt for the constitution of the United States. His former Secretary of Defense has said the republic would never survive another Trump term. I think the choice is clear in this election.

DONALD TRUMP: I fired most of those people. Not so graciously. They did bad things or a bad job. I fired them.

Source: ABC News 2024 Presidential debate in Philadelphia Sep 10, 2024

Donald Trump: We're a failing nation; we're in serious decline

TRUMP: [Kamala Harris says] she's going to do this, she's going to do that, she's going to do all these wonderful things. Why hasn't she done it? She's been there for 3 1/2 years. You haven't done it. And you won't do it. Because you believe in things that the American people don't believe in.

We're not ready for it. We can't sacrifice our country for the sake of bad vision. But I just ask one simple question. Why didn't she do it? We're a failing nation. We're a nation that's in serious decline. We're being laughed at all over the world. All over the world, they laugh, I know the leaders very well. They're coming to see me. They call me. They don't understand what happened to us as a nation. We're not a leader. We don't have any idea what's going on.

What these people have done to our country, and maybe toughest of all is allowing millions of people to come into our country, and they're destroying our country. The worst president, the worst vice president in the history of our country.

Source: ABC News 2024 Presidential debate in Philadelphia Sep 10, 2024

Donald Trump: Our country has no chance of success under Democrats

Our country is being lost. We're a failing nation. And it happened three and a half years ago. And you're going to end up in World War 3. What they have done to our country by allowing these millions and millions of people to come into our country. And look at what's happening to the towns all over the United States. She's destroying this country. And if she becomes president, this country doesn't have a chance of success. Not only success. We'll end up being Venezuela on steroids. Source: ABC News 2024 Presidential debate in Philadelphia Sep 10, 2024

Kamala Harris: I've only had one client in my career: the people

I started my career as a prosecutor. I was a D.A. I was an attorney general. A United States senator. And now vice president. I've only had one client. The people. And I'll tell you, as a prosecutor I never asked a victim or a witness are you a Republican or a Democrat. The only thing I ever asked them, are you okay? And that's the kind of president we need right now. Someone who cares about you and is not putting themselves first. Source: ABC News 2024 Presidential debate in Philadelphia Sep 10, 2024

Kamala Harris: Strength is in lifting people up, not beating people down

KAMALA: My values have not changed. And what is important is that there is a president who actually brings values and a perspective that is about lifting people up and not beating people down and name-calling. The true measure of the leader is the leader who actually understands that strength is not in beating people down, it's in lifting people up. I intend to be that president. Source: ABC News 2024 Presidential debate in Philadelphia Sep 10, 2024

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	*Candidates for President & Vice-President:* V.P.Kamala Harris (D-CA) Robert F. Kennedy Jr.(I-CA) Chase Oliver(L-GA) Dr.Jill Stein(D-MA) Former Pres.Donald Trump(R-FL) Sen.J.D.Vance(R-OH) Gov.Tim Walz(D-MN) Dr.Cornel West(I-NJ)	*2024 presidential primary contenders:* Pres.Joe_Biden(D-DE) N.D.Gov.Doug Burgum(R) N.J.Gov.Chris_Christie(R) Fla.Gov.Ron_DeSantis(R) S.C.Gov.Nikki_Haley(R) Ark.Gov.Asa_Hutchinson(R) Former V.P.Mike Pence(R-IN) U.S.Rep.Dean_Phillips(D-MN) Vivek_Ramaswamy(R-OH) S.C.Sen.Tim_Scott(R)
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