Debate 2024: Trump Takes the Bait, but Does It Matter?
2024 Presidential Election,Kamala Harris,Donald Trump,Politics,Debates,Presidential Debates,ABC News
Do debates matter? A million thoughtful commentators used to tell you that they did not, right up until the moment Joe Biden’s face melted off his skull during the first 2024 debate like the bespectacled Nazi at the end of Raiders of the Lost Ark. (“Don’t look at the livestream, Marion!”) So for 2024, at least, I think it’s fair to say that debates matter, especially when there’s only one for the final presidential match-up between Donald Trump and Kamala Harris. And in terms of what each candidate desperately needed to accomplish for their campaign, in an election likely to be decided by inches? Kamala Harris narrowly edged the match out.
Related Coverage
AllSides Picks
Bias
A ‘War’ or an ‘Operation’? Examining Media Bias in Coverage of Iran
Emanuel Macuixtle
May 28th, 2026
Headline Roundup
Judge Blocks Trump Immigration and Asylum Policies, Orders Processing to Resume
June 6th, 2026