Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Donald Trump are likely to use very different tactics and styles in their first presidential debate.

Harris and Trump will meet in person for the first time Tuesday night at a debate moderated by ABC News in Philadelphia, exactly eight weeks before Election Day and just over seven weeks after President Joe Biden dropped out of the race and endorsed Harris following his disastrous June 27 debate with Trump.

The Harris team hopes that the vice president will use her “classic” debating style and her experience as a prosecutor to effectively counter Trump’s unconventional, fast-paced and often spontaneous style.

A Harris campaign official recently told the Associated Press on condition of anonymity that the vice president views the debate as a “jury trial” and hopes to win the election based on her “accomplishments” while leaving voters with “important lessons.”

In terms of experience on the national debate stage, Trump has a clear advantage over Harris: The former president has participated in six presidential debates against Biden and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.

A single debate with former Vice President Mike Pence in 2020 was Harris’ only high-stakes national election debate, although she participated in several other debates during her campaign for state office and for the U.S. Senate in California.

In the Monday edition of The NPR Politics PodcastWhite House correspondent Franco Ordoñez said Trump’s aides compared “his style and debating skills” to those of boxing legend Muhammad Ali and boasted that Harris was unable to “prepare for him.”

In the same podcast, NPR senior political editor Domenico Montanaro said he expected Trump to go off topic and “lie” during the debate, while warning that the former president could damage his standing with female voters if it was perceived that he was “bullying” Harris.

“It’s no secret,” Montanaro said. “Will he (Trump) be disciplined? No, he won’t. We know what he’s doing, he lies about a lot of these things and he’s wrong. He’s going to do what he’s doing.”

“We haven’t seen a huge shift in how people think about Donald Trump. And if he feeds into the narrative that he’s a bully and someone who doesn’t respect women, then good luck with the gender gap.”

One of the most memorable moments of the Harris-Pence debate – when Harris tersely told Pence, “I’m speaking,” while trying to interrupt her – is unlikely to be repeated on Tuesday, because there are rules that require microphones to be muted when it is not a candidate’s turn to speak.

If previous performances are any indicator, Harris will probably speak more slowly than Trump.

In an analysis published by The Economist Last week, University of Pennsylvania linguist Mark Liberman found that Harris chooses her words carefully in public speeches, saying 17 percent fewer words than Pence during the 2020 debate, even though both candidates spoke for the same length of time.

Trump, on the other hand, is rarely at a loss for words during public speeches. Liberman found that Trump spoke at a rate of 189 words per minute at a recent rally, although the former president also typically uses a smaller vocabulary and repeats himself frequently, according to the analysis.

Newsweek contacted Trump and Harris’ campaign teams by email on Tuesday and asked for a comment.

The candidates have reportedly taken different approaches to preparing for the debate. Harris spent the last few days at a “debate camp” in Pittsburgh, where she used a replica television studio with the help of a Trump surrogate, according to The Washington Post.

Trump is foregoing traditional preparations and is instead reportedly holding a limited number of “strategy sessions” with staff at his golf club in Bedminster, New Jersey, where he is unofficially practicing responses to expected attacks from Harris.

Tuesday’s debate could be the only meeting of the 2024 presidential candidates, as no other debates have been agreed to yet, although Trump previously said he had agreed to a Sept. 25 debate moderated by NBC.

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