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Donald Trump Explains Why He’s Done With Debates


Following Tuesday’s debate against Kamala Harris, President Donald Trump declared that he would not be participating in any future showdowns with his Democratic rival.

In a statement to the New York Post, Trump went into greater detail about his decision:

“We just don’t think that there’s any need for it,” the 45th president exclusively told The Post Thursday after announcing on Truth Social he would not take the stage against Vice President Kamala Harris again.

“We’ve done two. You know, one against Biden [on June 27], one against Comrade Kamala. I did well. I did really well,” the 78-year-old said during a phone interview.

“The debate polls, every single poll, had us winning it.”

Shortly before Trump’s announcement, the campaign blasted out a “confidential memorandum” claiming that its internal polling had showed the Republican nominee gaining two percentage points on Harris among likely voters across seven unidentified “target states.”

ABC News received significant backlash over its seemingly biased moderation of the debate, with some critics speculating that the event was rigged in Harris’ favor.

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Here’s how Trump reacted to the debate, per CNBC:

Donald Trump on Wednesday morning blasted ABC News moderators for hosting what the Republican presidential nominee called a “rigged” debate against Kamala Harris, and said government regulators “ought to take away” the “terrible” network’s “license for the way they did that.”

But Trump also said, “We did great” in the Tuesday night debate during a call-in interview with the “Fox and Friends” show on Fox News.

“It was one of my better debates, one of my best debates,” said the former president, who nonetheless griped that the debate moderators David Muir and Linsey Davis “corrected” him too frequently in his showdown with Harris.

Trump said the debate felt like he was battling three opponents: Vice President Harris, and the two ABC News moderators.

Here’s how one CNN contributor assessed the situation:



 

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