Two days after his broadly panned efficiency in a debate in opposition to Vice President Kamala Harris, former President Trump on Thursday declared that he wouldn’t take part in one other debate with the Democratic presidential nominee.
Trump used his Reality Social platform to declare that he received the primary debate and to hurl insults at Harris and President Biden, whereas additionally suggesting that it was his opponent who had prevented scheduling a second debate.
“Two nights in the past, Donald Trump and I had our first debate,” Harris responded on the social media platform X. “We owe it to the voters to have one other debate.”
Trump used a sports activities analogy in his announcement. “When a prizefighter loses a combat, the primary phrases out of his mouth are, “I WANT A REMATCH,” Trump stated on Reality Social. He then contended that polls “clearly present” he received the televised Tuesday night time encounter with Harris.
Trump didn’t specify which polls he was referring to and the declare strained credulity, since the perfect recognized nationwide polls all confirmed the other — {that a} huge majority of viewers stated Harris received the 105-minute debate on ABC Information. Polls taken by CNN, YouGov and a consortium together with SoCal Methods all confirmed a majority favoring Harris’ efficiency, by a roughly 20-percentage-point margin in every.
Trump’s message additionally featured name-calling in opposition to Harris and Biden after which took to all capital letters to inform the vp she “SHOULD FOCUS ON WHAT SHE SHOULD HAVE DONE DURING THE LAST ALMOST FOUR YEAR PERIOD.”
