By Athena Papakosta

The telefights they are unpredictable. One only has to ask him Joe Biden. With these words, in its analysis, the British BBC network tries to describe the dynamics of the first – and perhaps the last – presidential debate between Donald Trump and her Kamala Harris.

The two candidates for the White House will clash in Philadelphia, the largest city in the key state, Pennsylvania tonight at dawn, Greek time, and their confrontation will be broadcast by the American network ABC News.

For the vice president of the United States, this will be her debut in a televised presidential debate, while for the former president of the country, it will be the sixth time that he will take the stage to politically crush his opponent. For both, however, it will be the first time they face each other.

There is nervousness in the Democratic camp. On the one hand, the inexperience of Harris and the latest New York Times poll that proved that the momentum of the US vice president may be weakening, and on the other, an opponent fearless in communication, unpredictable at the altar of spectacle and in love with himself of. A measure of visibility and offense.

Not without reason, then, Kamala Harris spent the last week locked in a hotel room in Pennsylvania reading and rehearsing. According to the BBC, her top advisers are standing by her impersonating Donald Trump, while his past debate appearances are being scrutinized.

Success for Harris will not just be about winning the debate, but for the former president of the United States to lose in it, and to achieve that goal, Donald Trump will have to not only stay true to his political character, but immediately forget any strategy has been drawn up by his staff, to go off the “script” and be his most Trumpian self.

For his part, the 45th president of the United States will want to prove that he is still in control of the election race.

Analysts expect that he will follow a tough and aggressive rhetoric especially on his subject immigrant but with his staff, indeed, fearing that he might get angry and end up repeating the mistakes of the 2020 debate against Joe Biden.

Both candidates know the importance of Pennsylvania where the debate will be held.

In the last two presidential election contests, whoever won this swing state also won the White House, while no Democratic candidate has been elected president of the United States since 1948 without first winning it.