Harris agrees to CNN debate on Oct. 23, Trump says ‘it is too late’
U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris, the Democratic presidential nominee, speaks on the Cobb Power Performing Arts Centre in Atlanta on Sept. 20, 2024. Harris spoke about abortion and reproductive rights in Georgia as she continues to marketing campaign towards Republican presidential nominee, former U.S. President Donald Trump.
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Vice President Kamala Harris stated on Saturday that she could be open to debating former President Donald Trump for a second time in October, forward of the November U.S. presidential election.
Jen O’Malley Dillon, chair of Harris and vice presidential nominee Tim Walz’s marketing campaign, stated in a statement that Harris has accepted CNN’s invitation to a debate on Oct. 23. That might be lower than two weeks earlier than the election.
“I’ll gladly settle for a second presidential debate on October 23. I hope @realDonaldTrump will be a part of me,” Harris wrote in an X post.
It is not the primary time the Harris camp has proposed one other match. Shortly after Harris and Trump held a debate hosted by ABC Information earlier this month, O’Malley Dillon stated Harris was prepared for spherical two towards him. However as Harris was elevating thousands and thousands of {dollars} following the marketing campaign, Trump declined to face her once more.
In a post on the Trump Media & Technology Group’s social community, Reality Social, the Republican presidential nominee stated there could be “no third debate.”
On Saturday, a Trump marketing campaign spokesperson referred CNBC again to Trump’s Reality Social submit about there being no third debate.
“She’s finished one debate,” Trump stated at a rally in Wilmington, North Carolina, on Saturday. “I’ve finished two. It is too late to do one other. I might like to, in some ways, but it surely’s too late. The voting is solid.”
The primary 2024 debate for Trump was towards the present president, Joe Biden. CNN ran the occasion in June. However Biden struggled on the talk stage. Democratic donors expressed concerns about Biden’s prospects, and Democratic members of Congress called on Biden to finish his election bid. In August, Harris accepted the presidential nomination on the Democratic Nationwide Conference.
“Donald Trump shouldn’t have any downside agreeing to this debate,” O’Malley Dillon wrote in her assertion. “It’s the identical format and setup because the CNN debate he attended and stated he received in June, when he praised CNN’s moderators, guidelines and rankings.”
— CNBC’s Rebecca Picciotto contributed to this report.
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