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 invite 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 mentioned she had received.
“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 a press release.
“I hope (Trump) will be a 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 “very reasonable” when he debated President Joe Biden in June, “they will not be honest once more”.
Vice President Harris changed her boss on the prime of the Democratic ticket after the 81-year-old Biden’s disastrous efficiency in opposition to Trump.
His exit from the race left Trump, 78, now the oldest presidential nominee in opposition to a a lot youthful Harris, 59.
