Here’s the latest on the presidential race. Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Donald J. Trump on Wednesday morning put aside their contentious and personal debate to mark the 23rd anniversary of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks together at ground zero. Ms. Harris and Mr. Trump, along with President Biden and Senator JD Vance, the Republican vice-presidential nominee, attended a commemoration at the World Trade Center memorial in Lower Manhattan under cool, sunny skies that matched the clear weather of the morning two hijacked jetliners struck the Twin Towers. Mr. Biden, Ms. Harris and Mr. Trump were then to go to a wreath-laying ceremony for Flight 93 in Pennsylvania. The president and vice president were also expected to participate in a similar event at the Pentagon. It was a remarkable transition to solemnity after the animus of Tuesday night’s debate. Mr. Vance and Mr. Trump stood together with Mr. Biden and Ms. Harris, as former New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg played human buffer. Ms. Harris and Mr. Trump did shake hands, seemingly at Mr. Bloomberg’s behest. The break from politics will be brief. On Thursday, Ms. Harris is scheduled to hold rallies in North Carolina while her running mate, Gov. Tim Walz of Minnesota, visits Michigan, both swing states. Mr. Trump is set to hold a fund-raiser in Los Angeles while Mr. Vance does the same in New York City. The Trump campaign will also dispatch some of his fiercest supporters — including Representative Byron Donalds of Florida and Gov. Kristi Noem of South Dakota — to Georgia, Pennsylvania and North Carolina as the campaigns focus on the seven states that will decide the next president. As for the debate, opening jitters gave way quickly to a fluid and contentious showdown. Mr. Trump parried difficult questions about his conduct on Jan. 6, 2021, on his continuing refusal to accept his defeat in 2020 and on his incendiary comments on race and ethnicity. Ms. Harris tried repeatedly to get under his skin, saying his rally audiences leave early and are bored, that his father built the business empire he merely inherited and that leaders who shared the world stage with him mocked him as a “disgrace.” He responded each time angrily and defensively, trying to steer the conversation to immigration and the economy. Often, he lashed out at the man he is no longer running against, Mr. Biden. Despite all that, Mr. Trump on Wednesday morning insisted he had “won the debate by a lot.” Here’s what else to know: Swift endorses Harris: Just after the debate ended, Taylor Swift endorsed Ms. Harris on Instagram in a message with a photo of her holding a cat signed “childless cat lady,” a reference to a comment Mr. Vance made in a 2021 interview. Mr. Trump dismissed the pop star’s endorsement, saying: “She’ll probably pay a price in the marketplace.” Inflation cools: The Consumer Price Index rose 2.5 percent in August from a year earlier, notably cooler than July’s 2.9 percent increase. That will be welcome news to Ms. Harris and keeps the Federal Reserve on track to cut interest rates next week, the first cut in more than four years. Trump Media plunges: Wall Street was not impressed by Mr. Trump’s debate performance, judging by the trading in shares of his social media company. Shares in the company were poised to open more than 10 percent lower on Wednesday. If the premarket trading were to hold after the official start of trading in New York, the company’s shares would fall to their lowest level since it went public in March. An outlandish claim: On his heels for much of the debate, Mr. Trump fell back on scaremongering about immigration, repeating and even amplifying the debunked claim that Haitian migrants in Ohio are “eating the dogs, they’re eating the cats.” The city manager of Springfield, Ohio, has repeatedly said that is not happening. On China and the military: Ms. Harris ended the night with a pledge to keep the U.S. military the most powerful in the world. She also noted that Mr. Trump praised China’s leader, Xi Jinping, as the Covid pandemic struck, and accused him of selling semiconductors to China to improve its military. Mr. Trump, she said, “basically sold us out.” Another debate? Ms. Harris’s campaign said in a social media post that she was ready for a second debate. Mr. Trump had previously committed to a proposed debate with NBC on Sep. 25 and goaded Ms. Harris about it for weeks, but after Tuesday night has sounded noncommittal. Late Tuesday, he said on Fox News that Ms. Harris wanted another debate “because she lost,” and calling into the network on Wednesday morning he repeated the claim, saying he had done “great.” Show more