On everything but abortion and Trump's half hearted calls for peace in Ukraine, yes both candidates sounded pretty much the same. The first 10 minutes of the debate consisted of both candidates trying to be more racist and xenophobic than the other one. Harris brought up Trump's tarrifs on foreign goods, which led to an argument about who was going to tax foreign goods more, as despite Harris being seemingly against them, the Biden admin (which she is second in command of) has kept the tarrifs.

Harris then proceeded to make up some Trump level racist conspiracy about how immigrants are bringing fentanyl to the US and killing Americans, to which Trump responded with a ridiculous anecdote about immigrants eating people's pet cats and dogs, to try one up Harris on who hates immigrants more. And that was just the first few minutes!

Later on in the debate Harris brought up the debunked and factually incorrect claims about Palestinian men/Hamas members sexually assaulted Israelis during October 7, and proceeded to confess her undying and eternal love for Israel, as well as an endless commitment to arming Israel, after Trump said that she hated Israel. Again, both candidates were trying to outdo each other on who wants to genocide Palestinians more.