The Republican Party candidate and former President of the United States, Donald Trump has stated that there will no more debates with Vice President and Democratic Party candidate, Kamala Harris.
Harris had on Saturday challenged her Republican counterpart, Donald Trump, to another debate in the lead-up to the US presidential election.
But responding to the request for the debate, Trump said, it was “too late.” The debate was proposed for October.
Earlier in the day, Harris’s campaign said she had accepted an invitation from CNN to participate in a debate on October 23. It would have been their second debate, after a September 10 encounter she was widely considered to have won.
“The American people deserve another opportunity to see Vice President Kamala Harris and Donald Trump debate before they cast their ballots,” her campaign chair Jen O’Malley Dillon said in a statement.
But Trump, speaking at a campaign rally in the battleground state of North Carolina, said he would like to debate.
According to AFP, Trump called it “good entertainment value.”
He added that the start of early voting in some States had taken the air out of the idea.
“It’s just too late, voting has already started,” Trump said.
“While CNN had been “very fair” when I debated President Joe Biden in June, “they won’t be fair again,” Trump added.
Recall that Vice President Harris replaced her boss at the top of the Democratic ticket. This was following the 81-year-old Biden’s disastrous performance against Trump.
Biden’s exit from the race left Trump, 78, now the oldest presidential nominee against a much younger Harris, 59.
The debate announcement on Saturday came just as some States have already begun early voting. Many have described the voting as an agonizingly close race.
On the campaign trail on Friday, Harris cast Trump and his party as “hypocrites” over abortion. She blamed the former President for an abortion ban in the battleground state of Georgia. This, she said had caused the deaths of two women.
Recall that Trump has frequently bragged on the campaign trail that his three Supreme Court picks paved the way for the 2022 overturning of the national right to abortion, turning the decision over to States.
“At least 20 States have since brought in full or partial restrictions. With Georgia banning most abortions after six weeks of pregnancy.
According to reports, the presidential race remains neck-and-neck. With Trump running with the support of a conservative religious voter base and others. Many of whom feel disaffected by the country’s political and economic status quo. Hardline anti-immigrant rhetoric has become a centerpiece of his election campaign.
The race between Harris and Trump has continued amid a tense atmosphere that was brought to the fore last weekend. This is even as a gunman appeared to have tried to assassinate Trump in Florida, the second such threat in as many months.
“Every vote will count in the race,” whose result Trump has once again refused to say he will accept if he loses.
Recall that Trump is facing criminal charges for allegedly trying to overturn the 2020 result. This was after which his supporters violently stormed the US Capitol on January 6, 2021.
This year’s result is expected to hinge on just seven battleground states, including North Carolina.
Trump has sought to lay the blame for any potential loss at the door of Jewish American voters, sparking outrage.
“If I don’t win this election… in my opinion the Jewish people would have a lot to do with a loss,” Trump told an anti-Semitism event on Thursday.
This is even as he repeated his grievance that Jewish voters have historically leaned towards the Democratic.
source: ThisDay
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