It’s Wednesday. After an intense debate night time, Trump and Harris met once more this morning at a way more somber occasion, marking the anniversary of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist assaults. They even shook hands 📹. It was a quick however good pause in all of the election chaos. Right here’s what else is occurring at the moment:

• The put up debate chatter has been fairly constructive towards Harris. Not a lot about Trump…
• Taylor Swift endorsed Harris. Preserve studying to see Walz’s real-time response.
• The world is marking the twenty third anniversary of 9/11.
• Johnson simply pulled the partisan funding plan.

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Vice President Harris got here out swinging in her first faceoff with former President Trump. She repeatedly baited Trump, saved her cool and drew a pointy distinction as a brand new technology of management with a constructive message.

In the meantime, Trump had a tough night time: His line amplifying an unfounded conspiracy idea about migrants “consuming the canine,” drew large mockery on-line. “They’re consuming the pets,” he yelled whereas Harris appeared over with a judgmental giggle. (More on those conspiracy theories). He additionally stumbled when requested about another well being care plan. “I’ve ideas of a plan,” he mentioned. 

Harris knew the right way to hit Trump the place it damage: Specifically, crowd sizes. Harris invited Individuals to attend a Trump rally and watch folks go away early as a result of “exhaustion and tedium.” This hit a significant nerve with Trump, who grew to become indignant and stayed indignant for many of the remainder of the controversy.

Conservatives went after the moderators: ABC Information’s moderators fact-checked Trump and Harris’s claims in actual time in the course of the debate, a notable shift from June’s match-up. Conservatives slammed moderators David Muir and Linsey Davis for stepping in and claimed the have been unfairly focusing on Trump and never Harris.

Trump mentioned this was his “finest debate ever” in a post-debate interview with Fox Information’s Sean Hannity and claimed it was a “THREE TO ONE” debate in a put up on Reality Social. And through an interview Tuesday morning on Fox Information, Trump instructed ABC Information handled him unfairly and “they ought to remove their license for the best way they did that.”

Harris completed what she wanted to perform: The stakes have been excessive for Harris heading into her first ­— and probably solely — debate with Trump. Polling confirmed that quite a few Individuals wished to listen to extra of her earlier than selecting their vote. Nevertheless, some folks have been dissatisfied with how she addressed her coverage modifications.

And the cherry on prime of Harris’s night time: Taylor Swift entered her endorsement period. Proper after the controversy ended, the megastar endorsed Harris, signing her Instagram put up as a “Childless Cat Woman.” Trump shrugged off Swift’s endorsement, predicting that she’s going to “pay a value for it within the market.”

📱 See Swift’s endorsement post

💻 Watch Walz react to Swift’s endorsement in real time

What now?: Harris instantly challenged Trump to a second debate, however he has been noncommittal, so we will see.

Chris Wallace equated Trump’s efficiency to Biden in June: CNN anchor Chris Wallace, who spent practically twenty years at “Fox Information Sunday,” called Trump’s debate efficiency “devastating” — and in contrast his night time to Biden’s June efficiency. His full quote is eye-catching.  💻Watch the clip

A Home Republican texted The Hill’s Mychael Schnell middebate: “I’m simply unhappy … She knew precisely the place to chop to get beneath his pores and skin. Simply total disappointing that he isn’t being extra composed like the primary debate. The highway simply acquired very slender.” It is a Republican who backs Trump, by the best way.

^ Other House Republicans agree

The Wall Avenue Journal deemed Harris the winner: The Journal’s editorial board argued that Trump “let her rattle him, as he did not make her defend her insurance policies.” Learn the op-ed: ‘Trump Lets Harris Off the Debate Hook’

A former Reagan speechwriter says Trump ‘cleaned his personal clock’: “He cleaned his personal clock, and when he didn’t clear his personal clock, she cleaned his clock, and when she didn’t, Muir and David cleaned his clock,” John Podhoretz posted on X.

Consuming = good: Sen. Brian Schatz (D-Hawaii) posted partway via the controversy: “My child simply mentioned ‘Kamala is consuming’ which I presume is nice.”

CNN’s Abby Phillip weighed in on the reside fact-checking: “Simply fyi: when there’s asymmetrical mendacity, there will likely be asymmetrical truth checking,” she posted. This X put up has greater than 1.8 million views.

Five takeaways, by way of The Hill’s Julia Mueller and Julia Manchester

Harris and Trump’s best and worst debate moments, by way of The Hill’s Niall Stanage

📸 Trump made a rare spin room appearance: “It is typically not thought of an indication of a candidate pondering he had a very good night time,” CNN’s Jake Tapper commented.

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Harris and Trump shook palms: Harris walked over to Trump and first put out her hand. Harris initially tried to satisfy him in the course of the stage, however he walked to his podium, so she met him there and prolonged her hand, primarily forcing the handshake. 💻 Watch the handshake

Axios’s Alex Thompson pointed out this was the primary handshake in a presidential debate for the reason that first Clinton-Trump debate in 2016.

What you couldn’t see on TV: CBS Information’s Sara Cook dinner was the pool reporter within the room in the course of the debate. Right here’s Cook dinner’s description of how Trump and Harris spent their second business break:

Trump’s business break: “The second the stage hand mentioned they have been clear for a 4-minute break, Trump turned in the direction of the exit, gave an enormous sigh via closed lips, and walked off stage with out taking a look at Harris.”

Harris’s business break: “From the time the moderators introduced they have been going to interrupt, Harris started writing on her notepad. She wrote constantly for your entire first two minutes of the break, sometimes bringing one hand to her chin or brushing hair behind her ear.” Read the full pool report

There was a notable distinction in physique language:

• When Harris spoke, Trump largely remained stone-faced.
• However when Trump spoke, Harris reacted with varied facial expressions. Laughing, judgmental seems to be, and many others.
• Apart from the handshake at first, Trump did not have a look at Harris all through the controversy and did not consult with her by title, as a substitute saying “she” and “her.”
• Harris, in the meantime, appeared straight at Trump, even when he refused to satisfy her eye.
  

^ Some examples

The controversy boiled down to 55 seconds: From The Washington Publish’s Dave Jorgenson

At present marks the twenty third anniversary of the Sept. 11 terrorist assaults on the USA. President Biden and Vice President Harris are visiting New York Metropolis, Shanksville, Pa., and Arlington, Va., all websites the place assaults passed off that day.

Watch at the moment’s ceremonies:

💻 The New York ceremony

💻 The Pentagon ceremony

💻 The Pennsylvania ceremony

This was a pleasant second: Biden, Harris, Michael Bloomberg, Trump and Trump’s operating mate Sen. JD Vance (R-Ohio) stood subsequent to one another on the New York ceremony. 📹 Watch them interact

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The one piece I counsel you learn yearly: Author Garrett M. Graff printed a minute-by-minute account of the occasions of 9/11, instructed by the advisers and workers aboard Air Pressure One. Graff’s e book is price studying.

Learn the excerpt: ‘We’re the Only Plane in the Sky’: “The place was the president within the eight hours after the Sept. 11 assaults? The unusual, harrowing journey of Air Pressure One, as instructed by the individuals who have been on board.”

💻 Watch the large American flag unfurled at the Pentagon

🕰️ The times to remember today

Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) simply scrapped plans for at the moment’s vote on Republicans’ partisan plan to maintain the federal government funded previous Sept. 30.

Bear in mind: The probabilities of this invoice turning into legislation have been exceptionally low. It already had extra GOP opposition than management might afford. (The Hill)

🍞 Have a good time: At present is Nationwide Scorching Cross Bun Day!

🏈 Noticed within the Capitol: Former NFL quarterback Tim Tebow 📸 Photo

🤔 That is an intriguing headline: The Washington Publish’s Andrew Jeong writes, “How a dropped bag of Cheetos had ‘world altering’ influence on life in a cave.” Read the reporting

The Home and Senate are in. President Biden and Vice President Harris are in New York, Pennsylvania and Arlington, Va., at the moment. (all instances Jap)

• 12:45 p.m.: Biden and Harris take part in a Flight 93 wreath-laying ceremony in Shanksville, Pa.
• 2:15 p.m.: A Senate cloture vote. Extra votes are anticipated round 5 p.m. 📆 Today’s agenda
• 4:40 p.m.: First and final Home votes. 📆 Today’s agenda
• 5 p.m.: Biden and Harris take part in a wreath-laying ceremony on the Pentagon. 💻 Livestream
• 1: Sen. JD Vance (R-Ohio) and Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz (D) face off within the VP debate.

To depart this on a lighter, although barely ominous observe, watch this pet react to last night’s debate.