U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris, the Democratic presidential nominee, speaks on the Cobb Vitality Performing Arts Centre in Atlanta on Sept. 20, 2024. Harris spoke about abortion and reproductive rights in Georgia as she continues to marketing campaign towards Republican presidential nominee, former U.S. President Donald Trump.
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Vice President Kamala Harris mentioned on Saturday that she could be open to debating former President Donald Trump for a second time in October, forward of the November U.S. presidential election.
Jen O’Malley Dillon, chair of Harris and vice presidential nominee Tim Walz’s marketing campaign, mentioned in a assertion that Harris has accepted CNN’s invitation to a debate on Oct. 23. That may be lower than two weeks earlier than the election.
“I’ll gladly settle for a second presidential debate on October 23. I hope @realDonaldTrump will be part of me,” Harris wrote in an X put up.
It is not the primary time the Harris camp has proposed one other match. Shortly after Harris and Trump held a debate hosted by ABC Information earlier this month, O’Malley Dillon mentioned Harris was prepared for spherical two towards him. However as Harris was elevating tens of millions of {dollars} following the marketing campaign, Trump declined to face her once more.
In a put up on the Trump Media & Expertise Group’s social community, Fact Social, the Republican presidential nominee mentioned there could be “no third debate.”
On Saturday, a Trump marketing campaign spokesperson referred CNBC again to Trump’s Fact Social put up about there being no third debate.
The primary 2024 debate for Trump was towards the present president, Joe Biden. CNN ran the occasion in June. However Biden struggled on the controversy stage. Democratic donors expressed considerations about Biden’s prospects, and Democratic members of Congress referred to as on Biden to finish his election bid. In August, Harris accepted the presidential nomination on the Democratic Nationwide Conference.
“Donald Trump should not have any downside agreeing to this debate,” O’Malley Dillon wrote in her assertion. “It’s the similar format and setup because the CNN debate he attended and mentioned he gained in June, when he praised CNN’s moderators, guidelines and rankings.”
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