NYT
Sept. 10, 2024, 10:30 p.m. ET2 minutes ago
Jonathan Weisman Reporting on the 2024 presidential race
The first, and probably the only, presidential debate of this fall neared its end on friendly turf for Harris, race and division in the United States. She used it to bring up Trump’s racist past, his early legal troubles for refusing to rent to Black tenants and his push for the death penalty for the later-exonerated “Central Park Five.” Her message: “I think the American people want better than that, want better than this.” Trump, again on his heels, tried again to steer the conversation back to the economy and make a point he has wanted to make all night: “She is Biden,” he said. It’s been a tough night for the former president.