Republicans and Democrats told ABC News how they should meet the crucial moment.
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The showdown in Philadelphia is taking place months after the last debate ended President Joe Biden's reelection bid, sending Harris rushing to stand up an eleventh-hour campaign and Trump scrambling to figure out how to negatively define a new opponent voters are less familiar with. Trump has sought to cast Harris as "dangerous" by painting her as a "California liberal" who was soft on crime and generally out of step, referencing her time as state attorney general and senator and relying on voters' perceptions of the progressive bastion to fill in the blanks.
Harris has introduced plans to make it easier to buy a house and start a small business, while, in a nod to the business community, saying she'd also increase the capital gains tax by less than Biden has proposed. "I think there is a mechanism whereby you stand up to bullies and you call it out for what it is and simply say that, 'while the former president is using racism as political currency, I represent a new future, one where we don't divide people and use such degrading terms to anyone,' Sellers said. "I would look him dead in the eye and say, 'former President Trump, we are better than you right now.
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