Inside the Trump-Harris Debate Prep: Method Acting, Insults, Tough Questions

 

 "Vice President Kamala Harris is holed up for five days in a Pittsburgh hotel, doing highly choreographed debate practice sessions ahead of Tuesday night’s clash. There’s a stage and replica TV lighting and an adviser in full Lee Strasberg method-acting mode, not just playing Donald J. Trump but inhabiting him, wearing a boxy suit and a long tie.

The former president’s preparations are more improv. They are pointedly called not “debate prep” but “policy time,” meant to refresh him on his record. Nobody is playing Ms. Harris; sometimes his aides sit at a long table opposite him and bat questions back and forth, or other times he pulls up a chair closer to them. Mr. Trump has held just a handful of sessions so far, interrupting one at his Las Vegas hotel so he and his advisers could go up to his suite to watch Ms. Harris’s convention speech.

While the two camps’ preparations for the big night in Philadelphia could not be more different, both sides view the debate the same way, "

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Maggie Haberman
Katie Rogers and
Reid J. Epstein

Inside the Trump-Harris Debate Prep: Method Acting, Insults, Tough Questions | The Seattle Times