SHOWDOWN IN PHILADELPHIA: In what is their first, and may well be their only face-to-face showdown, Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Donald Trump will square off at 9 p.m. in a tightly constrained 90-minute debate before an audience-free auditorium in Philadelphia’s National Constitution Center. The candidates will answer questions in two-minute increments, and according to the rules, they are not supposed to question each other.

The debate comes as the latest New York Times and Siena College poll shows Trump has retaken a narrow but statistically insignificant lead over Harris, 48% to 47%, well within the three-percentage-point margin of error.

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