Harris challenges Trump to second US presidential debate

Democratic VP says she hopes Republican ex-president volition articulation her connected statement signifier successful October, conscionable weeks earlier vote.

Kamala Harris has challenged Donald Trump to a 2nd statement earlier the United States statesmanlike election, saying she “will gladly accept” to go head-to-head again against the erstwhile president.

In a connection connected Saturday, Harris’s run spokesperson Jen O’Malley said the US vice president had accepted CNN’s invitation to a statement connected October 23.

“We look guardant to Vice President Harris again having the accidental successful the CNN statement to amusement her bid of the issues and wherefore it’s clip to crook the leafage connected Donald Trump and complaint a caller mode guardant for America,” O’Malley said.

More than 67 cardinal radical tuned in to the archetypal Harris-Trump showdown connected September 10, which saw the 2 candidates commercialized barbs connected immigration, overseas policy, and different issues.

Most observers crowned Harris the victor of that debate, arsenic she repeatedly appeared to rattle Trump implicit the people of the evening.

Trump did not instantly remark connected Saturday connected the imaginable of participating successful different statement against his Democratic rival earlier the predetermination connected November 5.

I volition gladly judge a 2nd statesmanlike statement connected October 23.

I anticipation @realDonaldTrump volition articulation me. https://t.co/Trb8HUBsDh

— Kamala Harris (@KamalaHarris) September 21, 2024

On September 12, helium posted connected his Truth Social media level that, “THERE WILL BE NO THIRD DEBATE!”

The erstwhile Republican president went head-to-head against Democrat Joe Biden successful June. Biden’s mediocre show against Trump spurred questions astir his property and quality to service different term, and weeks later, helium dropped retired of the 2024 race.

CNN has said the projected October statement would reflector the format of the 1 successful June.

“Both Vice President Harris and erstwhile President Trump received an invitation to enactment successful a CNN statement this autumn arsenic we judge the American radical would payment from a 2nd statement betwixt the 2 candidates for President of the United States,” the web said successful a statement.

“We look guardant to receiving a effect from some campaigns truthful the American nationalist tin perceive much from these candidates arsenic they marque their last decision.”

Most polls amusement Trump and Harris locked successful a adjacent combat successful the run-up to the upcoming vote, peculiarly successful battleground states that volition beryllium cardinal to winning the White House.

According to a New York Times polling tracker, Harris connected Saturday held a slim pb of 49 percent enactment nationally compared with Trump’s 47 percent support.

It is not wide whether debates really person an effect connected statesmanlike campaigns, with astir experts saying the interaction is minimal.

Nevertheless, Elaine Kamarck and William A Galston, predetermination experts astatine the Brookings Institution deliberation vessel successful Washington, DC, said the September Harris-Trump statement appeared “likely to enactment caller upwind successful Harris’ sales”.

“Whether it volition beryllium capable to propel her to triumph successful the Electoral College remains to beryllium seen. But her run and supporters permission the statement with renewed vigor and hope,” they wrote.

“By contrast, the Trump run indispensable reckon with the likelihood that their candidate’s show pleased his basal without rallying galore caller supporters to his side.”