Trump refuses to debate Harris again before November election
After a poor performance in Tuesday night’s ABC News presidential debate, Republican candidate Donald Trump posted on his social media platforms on Thursday that he would not participate again against Democratic candidates ahead of the Nov. 5 election. Any debate with Vice President Kamala Harris.
Former President Trump and Harris offered different suggestions for future debates. Trump pushed for a Sept. 25 meeting hosted by NBC News. Fox News had offered to host the October debate.
But Trump made clear Thursday that he would not participate in another debate with Harris. he declares victory at Tuesday’s meeting – Which initial poll exhibit Harris got better — and compared Harris’ calls for a rematch to those of a boxer who loses a fight.
Trump said Harris’ time would be better spent solving the country’s myriad problems.
“When a professional boxer loses a fight, the first words out of his mouth are: ‘I want a rematch.’ The polls clearly show I won against the Democrats in Tuesday night’s debate debate with radical left candidate Kamala Harris, who immediately called for a second debate. truth society posts.
“Kamala should focus on what she has been doing for almost four years. There won’t be a third debate!” he added.
About an hour after Trump’s tweet, Harris reiterated her call for another debate in a tweet of her own.
“Two nights ago, Donald Trump and I had our first debate,” she wrote. “We owe it to our voters to have another debate.”
in a average Three national polls compiled by ABC News Poll News and Data Unit 538 found 57% of respondents saying Harris won the debate and 34% saying Trump won. That includes an investigation launched by Republicans.
Trump and conservative allies spent the post-debate period On Tuesday night and Wednesday morning, ABC News hosts David Muir and Lindsay Davis argued that they were biased against Harris.
Trump and several others complained that the host fact-checked Trump, including false accusations about infanticide in Ohio and immigrants eating pets, but did not do the same for Harris.
However, there will also be a debate between U.S. vice presidential candidate J.D. Vance, Republican Senator of Ohio, and Democratic Minnesota Governor Tim Walz, scheduled to take place on October 1. Meeting in New York.
In June, Trump debated President Joe Biden, then the presumptive Democratic nominee. The president’s poor performance in that debate led to him dropping out of the race, and Harris took office weeks later.
