He absolutely slayed it Tuesday. What's he got to worry about. It will be a walk in the park. Talk about somebody who needs a pair!
Sorry, I couldn't resist the opportunity to be a complete jackass.
Trump Rejects Second Debate With Harris
Former president rebuffs idea following a Philadelphia debate performance that left Republicans concerned
By Alex Leary and Tarini Parti, WSJ
Updated Sept. 12, 2024 4:43 pm ET
Donald Trump ruled out another debate with Kamala Harris, a day after sending mixed signals following their clash in Philadelphia.
“Kamala should focus on what she should have done during the last almost four year period,” Trump wrote Thursday, in all caps, on social media. “There will be no third debate!”
Trump claimed he won the Tuesday debate, though the vice president was widely seen as having the better night. “When a prizefighter loses a fight, the first words out of his mouth are, “I WANT A REMATCH,” he wrote.
Asked if Trump was in fact ruling out a debate, a spokeswoman said in an email, “You heard the man!”
Harris, meanwhile, again called for the candidates to meet one more time. “I believe we owe it to the voters to have another debate,” she said Thursday at a rally in Charlotte, N.C.—minutes after Trump’s announcement.
Vice President Kamala Harris egged on former President Donald Trump about crowd sizes, while Trump sought to take Harris to task for changing her political positions.
The vice president criticized Trump in North Carolina—her first campaign event since the debate—for saying during the debate that he had a “concept of a plan” to replace the Affordable Care Act. “He’s going to end it based on a concept,” she said.
Harris also said Trump didn’t offer a vision for the country. “It was the same old show—that same tired playbook that we’ve heard for years with no plans for how he would address the needs of the American people,” Harris said.
Trump has a long history of giving conflicting answers about whether he will commit to a debate, including before the two campaigns agreed on the Philadelphia event. The former president said Wednesday that the ABC News debate moderators were unfair to him and that he was “less inclined” to debate the vice president again, though later in the day he seemed more open to one. A number of his allies predicted he would debate again.
During the debate, Harris repeatedly worked to get under Trump’s skin and knock him off message, needling him on crowd sizes and people leaving his rallies. Trump had planned to hammer a message that the vice president had years to accomplish what she is now proposing, but he waited until his closing remarks to forcefully make that case.
The event drew more than 67 million viewers, but it wasn’t expected to have a big impact on a race between the two contenders, who are vying for support across roughly seven battleground states. Many voters already have entrenched views of Trump, and some undecided voters suggested afterward that the debate hadn’t pushed them toward a firm decision about November.
Trump debated President Biden in late June, a disastrous appearance for the incumbent who was then forced to drop out of the race and who ultimately backed Harris. If there are only two presidential debates this election, it would match the number of debates in 2020. Other campaigns since 2000 typically included three debates between the presidential contenders, plus a vice presidential debate.
This year’s vice presidential contenders, Republican Ohio Sen. JD Vance and Democratic Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, are scheduled to debate Oct. 1 in New York.
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