Posted on 09/21/2024 11:27:29 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
Vice President Kamala Harris has accepted CNN’s invitation for an Oct. 23 presidential debate, with her campaign calling on former president Donald Trump to do the same.
“Donald Trump should have no problem agreeing to this debate,” Harris campaign chair Jen O’Malley Dillon said Saturday in a statement. “It is the same format and setup as the CNN debate he attended and said he won in June, when he praised CNN’s moderators, rules, and ratings.”
Trump, who debated Harris on Sept. 10, has so far said he is not interested in another debate.
Trump has claimed he won the debate against Harris, though most polls show the vice president as the victor. Harris has been saying on the campaign trail that her standoff with Trump was “fun” and that he owed it to the public to face her onstage again.
“It would be unprecedented in modern history for there to just be one general election debate,” O’Malley Dillon said. “Debates offer a unique chance for voters to see the candidates side by side and take stock of their competing visions for America.”
CNN said the debate would follow the format of the June 27 faceoff between President Joe Biden and Trump, taking place at the company’s Atlanta studios and without a live audience.
Harris’s campaign, which originally sought to change the rules that had been sought by allies of Biden before he ended his presidential bid, said it would accept muted microphones and other restrictions during a CNN debate.
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Why? So the media can bombard and gaslight idiots for the next two weeks with commentary and edited clips on how the lush beat Trump in the debate answering simple questions with her usual word salads? Forget it.
Sorry, Trump just said he isn’t going to do any more debates at his NC rally going on now. He already did 2 and voting has begun. She was invited to debate on FOX and she never responded.
Sooo, no more debates.
Im fine with Martha McCallum and Bret Baier hosting the debate which was the original plan..otherwise do what the dude told Jesse Watters(I forgot his name) Trump can pick one moderator and so can Harris..my pick is Mark Levin, let him question her Id pay BIG BUCKS to watch that
Harris can’t win a fair debate. She only agrees when the monitors are on her side and she (and only she) gets the questions a week in advance.
the Merchan sentencing is November 20th well AFTER the election
I think it was big play into their game when he debated Biden. He helped them get rid of him. She’s proven that she is train wreck. Just keep playing golf and going on Gutfeld.
I think they’re running out of “joy”.
Trump should simply reply, until we get to the bottom of how much collusion occurred between ABC and Kamala campaign, the Trump campaign cannot be confident in a fair debate. Therefore, none will take place.
NO. She’s floundering. Let her flounder.
Not only NO! BUT HELL NO!! 😡
“He was great against Hillary in the Town Hall...”
Remember that second debate with Hillary; the tapes had just come out and the MSM talking heads were speculating whether Trump would show up, or just show up to announce he was quitting. I mean, these talking heads were sitting in a circle and just joyful at the prospects. They were laid back, smiling, at ease for the first time in the campaign. Trump was over. They were probably fondling each other below the camera angle.
Well, Trump showed up and wiped the floor with the witch. That is the only debate I would be willing to sit through again.
He should offer a roundtable discussion with someone who just reads the topic. Each side submits the same amount of topics. The host alternates between each side’s topics and they discuss it until neither has anything to add. Let it run as long as it takes. Do it on CSpan with no commercials.
Not only is she floundering but her little Oprah joke of a townhall with all the nasty Satanic HELLywood Diddy pedophiles was a total disaster for her! This I believe has the potential of sinking her further down the river!
Yes. But Trump must use it to expose Kamrade’s radicalism, and nothing else.
Trump says no ‘deal in’ his speech in Wilmington this afternoon. He added, it’s too close to the election and early votes are already coming in.
CNN was fairly even handed last time though there wasn’t much they could to save Joe Biden.
Two points, since the prior debate CNN has a new head who is a rabid Democrat.
CNN goal was to test Biden, so they were fair.
Overconfidence and manic phase exuberance. Have you seen her glistening eyes and the return of her wild laughter?
New CNN debate panel will have Fani, Juan Merchan, Liz Cheney, Maxine Waters and Alvin Bragg in charge. All questions will be written by Harris staffers and rehearsed with Hollywood acting coaches for a week. Trump will be forced to appear in person in a courtroom for 10 hours a day for a week before the debate.
He will be given 45 seconds to reply to each Harris reply and will have a microphone taken from a 1950s kid’s toy bought at a yard sale. Sounds fair.
No is right. Just gives this totally unqualified lowlife Marxist hate-filled witch more gravitas being seen head-to-head in person with the inimitable President Trump. Besides, anyone who still hasn’t made up their mind who they will vote for by October 23rd, shouldn’t be allowed to vote in the first place. Because they’ve already self-identified as completely brain-dead.
I agree...the Diddy thing is bad for her too. Accepting this proposed 3rd debate would open 45 up to all kinds of risks ...even to his life. It’s like JFK being invited to a debate in Dealey Plaza.
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