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🇺🇸 U.S. ELECTION 2024

The presidential election is less than 100 days away. This is what we’re watching.

Donald Trump at his Mar-a-Lago club in Florida yesterday. Credit…Doug Mills/The New York Times

Trump and Harris agreed to a September debate

At a news conference at Mar-a-Lago, Donald Trump suggested that he was eager to face off with Kamala Harris and proposed three dates for debates. The ABC network confirmed that it would host the two candidates for a debate on Sept. 10.

The conference was the former president’s first public appearance since Harris became the Democratic nominee, and it signified an effort to recapture political momentum. Trump repeatedly mispronounced her first name, criticized her intelligence and resurrected a series of familiar attacks casting her as “a radical left person.”

Trump insisted that little had shifted, despite polling showing a tightening race and even as Democrats draw tens of thousands of supporters to rallies in swing states. “I haven’t recalibrated strategy at all,” he said. “It’s the same policies — open borders, weak on crime.”

For more: Are U.S. oil reserves at an all-time low? Would the Harris administration mandate electric cars? And were tax cuts under Trump the highest ever?We fact-checked Trump’s assertions.

Here’s what else to know:

• Harris does not support an arms embargo on Israel, her national security adviser said.

• Supporters of Trump say that Harris’s rise has unsettled the former president and that he is struggling to focus.

• Pro-Palestinian demonstrators heckled Harris during a rally on Wednesday, resurfacing party divisions over the war in Gaza. She turned the interruption to her advantage.

• Taylor Swift’s coveted endorsement went to President Biden in 2020. Swift fans are craving similar support for Harris.

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