Republican candidate says debate would be ‘just too late, voting has already started,’ and that his Democrat opponent had declined an earlier proposed debate.
Vice President Kamala Harris on Sept. 21 accepted an invitation from CNN to debate former President Donald Trump for a second time, though the prospect of another showdown between the presidential candidates appears highly unlikely as the former president told rallygoers in North Carolina on the same day that the proposed date is too late in the election cycle for a debate.
“I will gladly accept a second presidential debate on October 23. I hope @realDonaldTrump will join me,” Harris said in a post on X, in response to a post from CNN anchor Kaitlan Collins.The Trump campaign responded to an inquiry from The Epoch Times regarding CNN’s invitation by pointing to Trump’s Sept. 12 post on Truth Social, which states emphatically that there won’t be a subsequent debate.Later on Sept. 21, an afternoon rally in Wilmington, North Carolina, Trump said he was told about the CNN debate proposal as he was disembarking from his plane, and framed the invitation as a desperate attempt to revive a supposedly failing campaign.
Trump said that a potential second