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The 2024 United States Presidential Election is hotting up after Kamala Harris and Donald Trump enjoyed their first heated debate of the campaign but what were the top five moments from the Democrat-Republican showdown?
Harris, aged 59, and Trump, aged 78, went head-to-head live on ABC under strict conditions to allow an informative debate for the American electorate to witness ahead of Election Day on November 5.
And naturally there was a lot of wit, a lot of jibes and a lot of thinly-veiled comments about the other's record and history from one candidate to the next but what were some highlights from the event?
Harris defends Second Amendment
One of the popular tactics from the Republicans in a bid to scare people into voting for them is to claim the Democrats will take away the Second Amendment right from American citizens by banning guns.
Despite the amount of dead children caused by gun violence in the USA, the right to bear arms seems to be untouchable by political candidates and the new-look Democrats have made sure they will not be touching that area of the constitution as Harris accused trump of being a liar.
"Tim Walz and I are both gun owners," Harris said. "We aren't taking anyone's guns away so stop with the continuous lying about this stuff."
Trump accuses Harris of being partially responsible for assassination attempt
The world was shocked when Trump was inches away from being assassinated on July 13 when he was shot at during an open rally near Pittsburgh, barely escaping with his life as Secret Service agents swamped him and returned fire.
For many, such as Elon Musk, it served as the only action they needed to endorse Trump for presidency but the story took a twist when it turned out the shooter was a ed Republican.
Yet Trump has turned it into a political piece to wield in his quest for the Oval Office and even went as far as to suggest Harris and the Democrats deserve some of the blame for the incident.
"This is the one that weaponized. Not me. She weaponized," Trump said to s. "I probably took a bullet to the head because of the things that they say about me.
"They talk about democracy-I'm a threat to democracy. They're the threat to democracy with the fake Russia, Russia, Russia investigation that went nowhere."
Trump accuses immigrants of eating pets
Watchers around the United States and Harris herself were left simply stunned when Trump tried to claim that illegal immigrants are consuming the pets of residents in Springfield, Ohio, adding that he saw the story on TV.
The s quickly shut down the baseless claims and said they had ed the City Manager, who denied the story in one of the most bizarre moments of Trump's political career and his anti-immigrant rhetoric.
"They're eating the dogs, the people that came in, they're eating the cats," Trump said. "They're eating the pets of the people that live there, and this is what's happening in our country, and it's a shame."
Trump brutally shut down over abortion claims
Abortion is one of the main polarizing differences between the Republicans and the Democrats as the pro-life GOP contests the morality of their pro-choice rivals, who say bodily autonomy is above all else.
And Trump tried to push the agenda in the debate on Tuesday by claiming Democrats want babies aborted after their birth to be legal. This is known as murder, and the was quick to let him know about the false claim.
"There is no state in this country where it is legal to kill a baby after it's born," Linsey Davis said after Trump claimed West Virginia had explored the idea based on Ralph Northam's 2019 comments.
Immigration figures from Trump simply wrong
Immigration was another big theme from Trump once again in the debate, as it has been since he first began campaigning for presidency ahead of his 2016 election, and he made more outlandish claims on national airwaves once again.
This time the 78-year-old suggested immigrants are "pouring" into the USA from over the border out of "prisons and jails, from mental institutions and insane asylums".
Data from the United States Border Patrol revealed that of the 1.4 million immigrants who crossed the border as of September 2024, only 14,700 (one percent) of them had a previous conviction.