The morning after Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Donald Trump’s first presidential debate, it’s removed from clear if Trump will conform to a rematch.
A number of TV networks are desperate to host a presidential debate in October. The Harris marketing campaign, exuding confidence after Harris baited Trump on a Philadelphia stage Tuesday evening, instantly stated she would conform to a second debate with the ex-president. However Trump shouldn’t be committing, and his in a single day feedback recommend he’s not critical a couple of sequel.
“If you win the controversy, I don’t, I don’t know that I need to do one other debate,” Trump stated in a telephone interview Wednesday morning on Fox Information.
Talking with the hosts of “Fox & Buddies,” Trump insulted Bret Baier and Martha MacCallum, the 2 anchors that Fox has pitched as potential debate moderators in October.
“I wouldn’t need to have Bret and Martha,” he stated, earlier than proposing Sean Hannity, Jesse Watters or Laura Ingraham as a substitute.
It’s self-evident that Fox’s prime time stars, who exist extra within the realm of leisure than information, are by no means going to average a common election debate. So if that’s the place to begin for negotiations, don’t count on one other debate.
However Trump marketing campaign senior adviser Jason Miller stated on “CNN This Morning” that Trump “has already stated that he’s going to do three debates.” Miller blamed Harris for dodging Trump’s speak of a September 25 debate hosted by NBC.
Later within the day, Trump was requested by reporters a couple of attainable rematch with Harris.
“I simply don’t know,” he stated. “We’ll give it some thought.”
The previous president added that he would theoretically present up for a debate hosted by NBC or Fox, however first “we now have to find out whether or not we need to do it” in any respect.
The Harris marketing campaign, nonetheless, needs the vice presidential debate between Tim Walz and JD Vance to occur subsequent. CBS is internet hosting that face-off on October 1. That’s why Harris spokesman Brian Fallon stated final evening, “That was enjoyable. Let’s do it once more in October.”
NBC and different networks stand able to host a Harris-Trump rematch in October.
Trump on Wednesday additionally assailed ABC after the controversy moderators fact-checked the previous president in real-time in the course of the prime time telecast.
“CNN was rather more honorable” throughout its June debate, Trump informed “Fox & Buddies,” calling Disney-owned ABC “essentially the most dishonest information group, and that’s saying so much.”
Trump repeatedly claimed the controversy “was three on one” and advised Disney’s FCC broadcast licenses needs to be revoked as a result of moderators’ conduct.
“They’re a information group – they must be licensed to do it – they ought to remove their license for the best way they did that,” he stated.
Trump additionally claimed that in a single day polls confirmed he had defeated Harris soundly within the debate, as if to recommend {that a} second face-off wasn’t mandatory, however he was referring to extremely partisan and unscientific surveys on social media. In CNN’s precise flash ballot of debate watchers, Harris clearly outperformed Trump.
