Harris and Trump attend same 9/11 ceremony hours after their first debate
Harris and Trump are both scheduled to attend a service at the Memorial plaza at ground zero in New York. President Joe Biden will be in attendance as well.
Hours after they sparred at their first presidential debate together, Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Donald Trump shook each other's hands in a show of civility Wednesday morning at a ground zero ceremony commemorating the 9/11 attacks.
The two presidential nominees stood near each other at the event in lower Manhattan, with President Joe Biden and former New York City Mayor Mike Bloomberg standing between Harris and Trump. Sen. JD Vance, R-Ohio, Trump's vice presidential nominee, and former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani also attended the ceremony.
During the ceremony, a woman who lost her husband in the terrorist attacks criticized Biden for saying Tuesday to reporters that he was going to “do 9/11” on Wednesday when mentioning that he would be attending memorials. The woman called it “quite a flippant remark” — one of the only outright political statements heard during the ceremony.
Once Trump and Vance left ground zero, they stopped by Engine 4 Ladder 15 fire station to meet with firefighters inside, some of whose members died responding to the 9/11 attacks.
White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said Biden and Harris were attending because "they want to honor the 2,977 lives that were lost on that tragic day and support the families and also their loved ones who are still, still feeling a horrible pain."
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