Donald Trump refuses to debate Kamala Harris again, even on his beloved Fox News
One month later definitely lost his first and only debate with the Vice President Kamala Harris, Donald Trump is refusing to face Harris again — even from the safe and friendly shallows of Fox News, which had hoped to host the next installment on October 24 or 27.
Trump’s campaign appears to have calculated that it would make more sense for him to hurl insults at Harris online, where she can’t bait the former president or cackling infectiously in his direction. “I WON THE LAST TWO DEBATES,” Trump declared on Truth Social on Wednesday night, despite post-debate polls in September. Almost two in three registered voters CNN said Harris won the final debate, while 31% of respondents in ABC/Ipsos the poll said they had a worse impression of Trump after the September debate.
Trump has shied away from the possibility of a rematch for weeks, so his latest denial didn’t come as much of a surprise. The campaigns received invitations from both Fox and CNN, with CNN setting a Thursday deadline for candidates to accept or decline. CNN confirmed Thursday that Trump had decline the debateaccording to New York Timesand campaign consultant told NBC They have no plans to reconsider. Meanwhile, Fox News announced that they had made a final pass for both campaigns on Wednesday, with Bret Baier And Martha MacCallum invited to be a moderator.
While Fox has not confirmed that its debate is over and Trump did not specifically name the network in his Wednesday post, the former president told “Fox and Friends” in early September that he “didn’t want Martha and Bret” to moderate a Fox debate, instead lobbying for a more MAGA-friendly host. His post also made it clear that he wanted no more debate, on any network. “The first thing a prizefighter does when he loses is say he ‘needs a rematch,’” Trump said. “THE PROCESS IS VERY LATE, VOTING HAS BEGUN – THERE WILL BE NO AGAIN!”
The former president also falsely claimed he was leading in the polls and “in all the swing states,” with “a lead getting bigger and bigger.” That statement seems to be drawn from an internal campaign memo that Trump announced Thursday morning, which showed his campaign up 1 to 5 points in Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, Nevada, North Carolina, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin.
However, those polls surveyed only 800 people in each state, and the margin of error — 3.5% — was significantly larger than Trump’s predicted lead in every state except Georgia, where His campaign gave him a 5% increase. Weighted average belong to reputable poll currently available Harris leads the nation and in some states of rotation.
In the absence of another televised debate, Harris will appear at CNN’s town hall in Pennsylvania on October 23, her campaign manager said. Trump will almost certainly watch — and respond from behind the safety of his curtain, as he has done in recent days. On Wednesday and Thursday, the former president sent out a series of tweets making baseless accusations 60 minutes about fraud and “illegal” collusion with Democrats in Harris’ October 7 interview with the program. He emphasized the manufacturers Check out Harris’s answers coordinated with Democrats, even though there is no evidence that this happened, and request that federal government “SHUT OFF CBS LICENSE.” (It does not license the network.)
Trump has withdrawn from himself 60 minutes interview, according to CBS, about the concerns The program will do a reality check his comments.
