U.S. Vice President and Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris wants another shot at Donald Trump and has been telling anyone who will listen that she wiill debate the former president again.
“I’m trying to get another debate. We’ll see,” Harris told a crowd recently at the Cobb Energy Performing Arts Center.
Now she’s trying to force Trump’s hand by accepting an offer from another liberal news channel, writes The Washington Post.
Vice President Kamala Harris has accepted CNN’s invitation for an October 23 presidential debate, with her campaign calling on former president Donald Trump to do the same.
“Donald Trump should have no problem agreeing to this debate,” Harris campaign chair Jen O’Malley Dillon said Saturday in a statement. “It is the same format and setup as the CNN debate he attended and said he won in June, when he praised CNN’s moderators, rules, and ratings.”
Trump, who debated Harris on September 10, has said several times that he is not interested in another debate.
Trump said Saturday that he would not agree to a rematch with Harris, saying an October debate would be too late.
“The problem with another debate is that it’s just too late,” he said Saturday during a rally in Wilmington, N.C. “Voting has already started.”
After the pair first debated, polls indicated that Harris came out on top in the contest, but focus groups showed that Trump won with undecided voters.
Many voters have grown tired of Harris refusing to explain what she plans to do as president.
“THERE WILL BE NO THIRD DEBATE!” Trump wrote on his social media platform, Truth Social, referencing his debates with both Harris and President Joe Biden earlier this year. Trump debated Biden in June before taking on Harris in their September meeting.
There’s good reason for Trump to believe he can’t get a fair debate with Harris. ABC News, which hosted the only debate between the vice president and former president, received heavy criticism from both Republicans and Democrats for “fact checking” Trump during the debate while not doing the same for Harris.
Mark Penn, a senior adviser for the Clintons, went as far as saying that he believed the debate was rigged against Trump. “I actually think they should do a full internal investigation, hire an outside law firm. I don’t know how much of this was planned in advance,” Penn told the “John Solomon Reports” podcast.
“I don’t know what they told the Harris campaign. I think the day after, suspicion here is really quite high, and I think a review of all their internal texts and emails really should be done by an independent party to find out to what extent they were planning on, in effect, you know, fact-checking just one candidate and in effect, rigging the outcome of this debate. I think the situation demands nothing less than that,” he added.
“It’s a 50-50, race. He’s [Trump] got more obvious tools to get across the finish line than she does and part of the thing here is that if the referees have their finger on the scale, it’s harder to, you know, break through and overcome. And certainly, general media coverage has been fairly laughable,” he said.
