Vice President Kamala Harris on Saturday agreed to a new debate with former President Donald Trump — a potential showdown between the two presidential candidates with less than two months to go until Election Day.
Harris to a debate on October 23, and : “I hope @realDonaldTrump joins me.” Harris’ campaign manager Jen O’Malley Dillon said in a statement to CNN that “Donald Trump should have no problem agreeing to this debate.”
In August, in the run-up to election day: one on September 4, which never happened; one on September 10, and one on September 25, which is not scheduled.
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Yet during the Sept. 10 debate, in which Harris held a 5 percentage point lead over Trump among registered voters, Trump appeared to want to debate the former California senator again.
“THERE WILL BE NO THIRD DEBATE!” he wrote in a post on Truth Social on September 12.
“When a boxer loses a fight, the first words he says are, ‘I WANT A REMATCH.’ Polls clearly show that I won Tuesday night’s debate against Comrade Kamala Harris, the Democratic candidate from the far left, and she immediately called for a second debate,” he wrote.
But last week, Trump suggested he might participate in another debate, telling reporters in California that it would depend “on whether I get in the right frame of mind.”
Trump has debated Harris only once so far, but it would have been his third debate this cycle. He had previously debated Harris, who was running for re-election at the time. Biden’s June 27 performance raised concerns among Democrats hoping to defeat Trump in the general election this fall. Biden withdrew shortly afterward and nominated his vice president to take his place in the race.
