President Trump Responds To CNN’s Latest Debate Invitation

President Trump has responded to CNN’s latest debate invitation.

Just hours after the Kamala Harris campaign announced they would accept CNN’s debate invitation, President Trump has taken the opposite approach and turned it down.

During his Wilmington, North Carolina rally, Trump shared, “She’s done one debate, I’ve done two. It’s too late to do another. I’d love to, in many ways, but it’s too late. The voting is cast.”

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Trump: They would like to do another debate.. The problem with another debate is it’s just too late.. Voting has already started. pic.twitter.com/JgNITnEt7Z

— Acyn (@Acyn) September 21, 2024

No debate!

Trump is ahead and that’s why Harris wants another one in late October.

Zero reason to let your enemy, who is losing, dictate where you meet on the battlefield.

TRUMP IS WINNING!

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— Cernovich (@Cernovich) September 21, 2024

Here’s what CNBC reported:

Vice President Kamala Harris said on Saturday that she would be open to debating former President Donald Trump for a second time in October, ahead of the November U.S. presidential election.

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Jen O’Malley Dillon, chair of Harris and vice presidential nominee Tim Walz’s campaign, said in a statement that Harris has accepted CNN’s invitation to a debate on Oct. 23. That would be less than two weeks before the election.

“I will gladly accept a second presidential debate on October 23. I hope @realDonaldTrump will join me,” Harris wrote in an X post.

It isn’t the first time the Harris camp has proposed another match. Shortly after Harris and Trump held a debate hosted by ABC News earlier this month, O’Malley Dillon said Harris was ready for round two against him. But as Harris was raising millions of dollars following the campaign, Trump declined to face her again.

In a post on the Trump Media & Technology Group’s
social network, Truth Social, the Republican presidential nominee said there would be “no third debate.”

On Saturday, a Trump campaign spokesperson referred CNBC back to Trump’s Truth Social post about there being no third debate.

“She’s done one debate,” Trump said at a rally in Wilmington, North Carolina, on Saturday. “I’ve done two. It’s too late to do another. I’d love to, in many ways, but it’s too late. The voting is cast.”

Trump doesn’t need another debate— he won the last one.

And just my opinion, but Steve Bannon is out 10/29, so let’s focus on what he says is the most important thing from here on out—GET OUT TO VOTE. Nothing else matters. No more debates needed.https://t.co/3c6coeacoc

— Grace Chong 🇺🇸 (@gc22gc) September 21, 2024

Per Yahoo News:

U.S. Democratic candidate Kamala Harris is trying to get a second opportunity to debate her Republican challenger Donald Trump in this year’s presidential race, she said on Friday.

“I’m trying to get another debate. We’ll see,” Harris, the U.S. vice president, said in front of about 600 people at the Cobb Energy Performing Arts Center in Atlanta.

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Harris and Trump debated each other for the first time on Sept. 10, in a contest that polls showed was won by the Democratic nominee.

Trump last week said he would not participate in another debate against Harris before the Nov. 5 election.

“THERE WILL BE NO THIRD DEBATE!” the former president wrote on his social media site Truth Social. Trump debated President Joe Biden in June before his matchup against Harris.

At their debate, Harris put Trump on the defensive with a stream of attacks on his fitness for office, his support of abortion restrictions and his myriad legal woes.