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 mentioned she had accepted an invitation from broadcaster CNN to take part in a debate on Oct 23. It will 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 mentioned in an announcement.
“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 want to debate – calling it “good leisure worth” – however the begin of early voting in some states had taken the air out of the concept.
“It is simply too late, voting has already began,” he mentioned.
He added, to a big and enthusiastic crowd of supporters, that whereas CNN had been “particularly reasonable” when he debated President Joe Biden in June, “they will not be honest 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.