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Customers watch the presidential debate between former president Donald Trump and vice president Kamala Harris, at Manuel's Tavern in Atlanta last night. Photograph: Nicole Craine/New York Times
Nimble Harris baits Trump in televised presidential debate

Philadelphia is nothing if not a fight town and back in the analogue years, when boxing commanded a prized place at the high table of American culture, Muhammad Ali’s old phrase was the one quoted above all others: “Float like a butterfly, sting like a bee”.

And as Tuesday night’s US presidential debate in the National Constitution Centre deepened, it was impossible not to recall those words. Kamala Harris was both nimble and venomous in her baiting of Donald Trump, writes Washington Correspondent Keith Duggan.

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