Trump rejects 2nd Harris debate

Republican presidential nominee and old U.S. President Donald Trump reacts in the whisk room, on the day of his debate with Democratic presidential nominee and U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris, in Philadelphia on Sept. 10, 2024.

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Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump on Thursday acknowledged there could be perchance not one other debate in opposition to his Democratic rival, Vice President Kamala Harris.

The old president in a Truth Social post claimed that he won his first debate in opposition to Harris on Tuesday evening. He cited as evidence the actual fact that Harris’ campaign had challenged him to one other debate rapidly after the first one ended.

A gargantuan quantity of conservative commentators and some of Trump’s have supporters personal acknowledged Harris outperformed him.

But Trump in Thursday’s post wrote, “When a prizefighter loses a fight, the first words out of his mouth are, ‘I WANT A REMATCH.'”

“Polls clearly show cloak that I won the Debate in opposition to Comrade Kamala Harris, the Democrats’ Radical Left Candidate, on Tuesday evening, and he or she straight known as for a 2nd Debate,” Trump wrote.

More than one post-debate polls in actual fact show cloak audiences by a mountainous margin think Harris won. In the wake of the controversy, Trump and his allies lashed out at host network ABC News and accused the moderators, David Muir and Linsey Davis, of political bias.

The showdown in Philadelphia was once Trump’s 2nd presidential debate of the 2024 election cycle. He debated in leisurely June in opposition to President Joe Bidenwho performed so badly that he somehow withdrew his reelection listing and endorsed Harris as his replacement.

Trump in his Truth Social post wrote, “KAMALA SHOULD FOCUS ON WHAT SHE SHOULD HAVE DONE DURING THE LAST ALMOST FOUR YEAR PERIOD. THERE WILL BE NO THIRD DEBATE!”

Lower than an hour after that post was once despatched, Harris once more known as for one other debate.

“Two nights ago, Donald Trump and I had our first debate,” she acknowledged at a campaign rally in Charlotte, North Carolina.

“And I feel we owe it to the voters to personal one other debate as a consequence of this election and what’s at stake could maybe not be extra necessary.”

The two presidential running mates, Republican Sen. JD Vance of Ohio and Democratic Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, are peaceable place to fulfill Oct. 1 for his or her one and most productive vice presidential debate.

The campaigns personal publicly squabbled over the controversy schedule since Harris took over the Democratic designate.

Trump had previously tried to push Harris to honest salvage an early-September debate on Fox News. He also acknowledged at one point that he was once game for one other debate hosted by NBC News on Sept. 25. Harris’ campaign didn’t straight comply with that debate.

Trump had waffled on whether or not to participate in an ABC-hosted debate, claiming that his ongoing defamation lawsuit in opposition to the network and anchor George Stephanopoulos created a “warfare of passion.”

The campaigns also traded barbs about the controversy rules, with Harris’ crew unsuccessfully pushing for every and every candidates’ microphones to protect on even when it was once not their turn to respond to.

Trump and Harris ended up going through off for the first, and presumably most productive, time Tuesday evening.

Moments after the controversy ended, Harris campaign chair Jen O’Malley Dillon known as for a 2nd debate in October.

“Vice President Harris is engaging for a 2nd debate. Is Donald Trump?” she acknowledged.

Trump claimed victory in the controversy, and speedy solid doubt on whether or not he would comply with one other round.

In a Truth Social post Wednesday, he wrote, “Why would I affect a Rematch?”