(Fox News) Former President Trump and Vice President Harris faced off for the first time in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania for a debate moderated by ABC News on Tuesday.
The event was technically the second presidential debate of the election but was the first since President Biden ended his campaign and Democrats nominated Harris for president instead.
A variety of issues were broached during the debate and plenty of shots were taken at one another, but there were several moments that stood out more than others. Here are the top 5 moments from the match-up.
1. Trump says he wanted to send Harris a MAGA hat
Trump said he “was going to send her a MAGA hat,” in reference to Harris, because he claimed the vice president has adopted his political philosophy on the campaign trail. “Everything that she believed three years ago and four years ago is out the window—she’s gone to my philosophy now,” he said during the debate.
Harris has notably reversed several policy stances she previously held while in the Senate and on the campaign trail in 2019 and has moderated ahead of the election against Trump.
“But, if she ever got elected, she’d change it,” Trump warned. “And it will be the end of our country. She’s a Marxist.”
3. Harris says she is not Joe Biden
The vice president told moderators, “clearly, I am not Joe Biden” after Trump slammed the Biden-Harris administration’s economic policy and said, “she is Biden.”
“She is trying to get away from Biden,” he said.
Harris responded, explaining that she is not Biden and adding that she is “certainly not Donald Trump.”
“What I do offer is a new generation of leadership for our country,” she said.
