By Nandita Bose and Stephanie Kelly
ATLANTA (Reuters) – U.S. Democratic candidate Kamala Harris will seek a second chance 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 US vice president, told about 600 people at the Cobb Energy Performing Arts Center in Atlanta.
Harris and Trump first debated on September 10, with polls showing the Democratic candidate winning.
Trump said last week that he would not participate in another debate with 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 showdown with Harris.
During the debate, Harris put Trump on the defensive with a series of attacks on his fitness for office, his support for abortion restrictions and his numerous legal troubles.
(Reporting by Nandita Bose and Stephanie Kelly; Editing by Diane Craft and Deepa Babington)
