Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Donald Trump debate for the first time tonight.

It's an ABC News debate being simulcast on other networks, including PBS and Katie.

Last Friday during our Inside Kentucky Politics segment.

I asked Trey Grayson and Bob Babidge about what they're expecting and what the candidates need to do.

Your predictions for the big debate on Tuesday, September the 10th between Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Donald Trump.

I will predict absolutely 100% that both will claim victory and that a very solid bet.

You think?

I think that's already been written.

Yeah, But you know, Maureen Dowd, who writes very effectively for The New York Times two or three weeks ago, said this is an unserious acting man right now against an untested woman.

So let's just say that that's something people are thinking about.

You've got roughly 10% of the folks who might vote still trying to figure out the candidates for Trump to give a more serious presentation and for her to show that she's ready for the job.

That's what this is coming week.

A lot at stake.

Let's hope it goes well.

Let's hope it's dignified.

Let's hope it's in-depth and meaningful.

Both have clarifications to make on significant policies, including resetting multiple positions on policies and changes from before on policies Americans really are about performance.

How have you done before and what are you going to do next, particularly defining what you're going to do next?

This what this week should be.

And we all want debates.

The three of us always like to see debates.

You do a magnificent job running debates.

Let's hope that this is one where people say, I got a lot out of it.

Yeah.

I mean, debates matter.

We learned that earlier in the year and this race is essentially tied.

There's only a few thousand voters in several states who whose opinions are going to decide this.

Either candidate can win.

There's a lot of stake about that.

And I mean, untested versus unserious, I think was the word that Dowd used.

And so voters are going to have to look like which which do I want or which poison do I pick?

And so the debate can have a clarifying element for those voters.

Yeah.

Well, we won't have you next week to talk about it all, but we'll have to text each other.

Did.

Yeah, we'll do that for sure.

Too bad you got in on that.

Thank you all.

Thanks.

Thank you.