WASHINGTON: Donald Trump on Saturday (Sep 21) rejected a second debate in opposition to Kamala Harris earlier than the Nov 5 election, saying it was “too late” with early voting already underway in some states.
Earlier within the day, Harris’s marketing campaign stated she had accepted an invitation from broadcaster CNN to take part in a debate on Oct 23. It might have been the candidates’ second debate, after a Sep 10 encounter that most pundits said she had won.
“The American folks deserve one other alternative to see Vice President Kamala Harris and Donald Trump debate earlier than they forged their ballots,” her marketing campaign chair Jen O’Malley Dillon stated in a press release.
“I hope (Trump) will be part of me,” Harris posted on X.
Trump claimed throughout a marketing campaign rally within the battleground state of North Carolina that he wish to debate – calling it “good leisure worth” – however the begin of early voting in some states had taken the air out of the thought.
“It is simply too late, voting has already began,” he stated.
He added, to a big and enthusiastic crowd of supporters, that whereas CNN had been “very reasonable” when he debated President Joe Biden in June, “they will not be truthful once more”.
Vice President Harris replaced her boss on the high of the Democratic ticket after the 81-year-old Biden’s disastrous performance against Trump.
His exit from the race left Trump, 78, now the oldest presidential nominee in opposition to a a lot youthful Harris, 59.
