Trump and Harris Square Off at a Consequential Stage of Campaign

This is Washington Edition, the newsletter about money, power and politics in the nation’s capital. Today, Bloomberg Businessweek national correspondent Joshua Green explains why the Trump-Harris presidential debate is a make-or-break moment, especially for the vice president. Sign up here and follow us at @bpolitics. Email our editors here.

The conventional wisdom among political scientists has been that debates don’t matter much to an election outcome. It might be time to update the literature.