Former President Trump stated he won’t take part in a 3rd debate this election cycle, claiming victory after Tuesday’s showdown in opposition to Vice President Kamala Harris.
The Harris marketing campaign on Tuesday after the talk stated they’d be curious about having one other. However Trump was lukewarm to the thought, and on Thursday afternoon, he rejected the proposal utterly.
“When a prizefighter loses a combat, the primary phrases out of his mouth are, ‘I WANT A REMATCH,’” Trump posted on his Truth Social account. “Polls clearly present that I received the Debate in opposition to Comrade Kamala Harris, the Democrats’ Radical Left Candidate, on Tuesday evening, and she or he instantly known as for a Second Debate.”
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Former President Trump and Vice President Kamala Harris through the debate on the Nationwide Structure Heart on Sept. 10, 2024, in Philadelphia. (Win McNamee/Getty Photographs)
Trump stated Harris and President “Crooked Joe” Biden have “destroyed our nation, with hundreds of thousands of criminals and mentally deranged folks pouring into the USA, completely unchecked and unvetted, and with Inflation bankrupting our Center Class.”
“Everybody is aware of this, and all the different issues brought on by Kamala and Joe — it was mentioned in nice element through the First Debate with Joe, and the Second Debate with Comrade Harris,” Trump stated.
Trump participated in a city corridor on Sept. 4 on Fox Information, after Fox Information invited the previous president and Harris to debate.
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“She was a no-show on the Fox Debate, and refused to do NBC & CBS,” Trump continued. “Kamala ought to give attention to what she ought to have finished over the last virtually 4 yr interval.”
He added: “THERE WILL BE NO THIRD DEBATE!”
Former President Donald Trump stated he won’t take part in a 3rd debate this election cycle, claiming victory after Tuesday’s showdown in opposition to Vice President Kamala Harris. He debated President Biden in June when he was the presumptive Democratic nominee. (Win McNamee)
Harris on Thursday afternoon at a rally in Charlotte, N.C. stated she believes “we owe it to the voters to have one other debate.”
Biden’s disastrous debate efficiency in opposition to Trump in June immediately fueled questions on his bodily and psychological skills to serve one other 4 years within the White Home – and spurred a rising refrain of calls from inside his personal occasion for the 81-year-old president to finish his bid for a second time period.
Going through elevated strain from fellow Democrats, Biden, in a blockbuster announcement on July 21, ended his re-election marketing campaign and endorsed Harris. She confronted no opposition and shortly sewed up the nomination.
Vice President Kamala Harris through the debate in Philadelphia on Tuesday, Sept. 10, 2024. (Doug Mills/The New York Occasions/Bloomberg through Getty Photographs)
Trump and Harris confronted off in a heated debate Tuesday evening, sparring about abortion, immigration, Israel, the financial system and a spread of different points—however Trump additionally battled the ABC Information moderators, who had been fast to problem and “truth examine” the forty fifth president, whereas leaving Harris’ distortions untouched.
Shortly after it concluded, Trump instructed Fox Information Digital that he thought it was his “greatest debate ever, particularly as a result of it was three on one.” A CNN flash ballot afterward discovered a majority of watchers thought Harris received the talk. Nearly all of a Fox Information Digital focus group additionally gave Harris the victory, though the Democrat took criticism for persevering with to sound evasive on main points.
On the heels of Tuesday’s ABC debate, FOX Information Media executives despatched a letter to the Harris and Trump campaigns providing to host one other debate, with Bret Baier and Martha MacCallum as moderators.
Fox Information Digital’s Brian Flood and Paul Steinhauser contributed to this report.
