Donald Trump currently considers it “inappropriate” to debate with Kamala Harris

(Houston) Kamala Harris said Thursday she was ready to debate with Donald Trump, the Republican candidate for the American presidential election judging it “inopportune” to organize a face-to-face with his new rival before she is officially designated by the Democratic Party.

“Trump agreed to a debate on September 10. Now it seems he’s backpedaling,” the Democratic candidate mocked on the X network, assuring for her part that she was “ready.”

Donald Trump had indicated that he was “completely” willing to debate with her, but under different conditions, the choice of the planned channel, ABC, no longer suited him.

The former Republican president had agreed with Joe Biden to debate twice before the November presidential election, on June 27 and September 10.

But the outgoing president’s disastrous performance in this first televised duel ultimately led Joe Biden on Sunday to give up running for a second term, after weeks of calls to leave the race, amid concerns about his physical and mental condition.

Since that thunderbolt, her vice-president Kamala Harris has taken up the torch and launched her campaign, now with broad support among Democrats. A big favorite, she has not yet been officially named the Democratic candidate for the November election.

“It would be inappropriate to schedule anything with Harris because Democrats could very well change their minds,” Donald Trump’s team said in a statement.

“What happened to ‘anytime, anywhere’?” Harris mocked X again, referring to the phrase Donald Trump used when he responded to Joe Biden’s challenge to debate.

“Cheek”

Campaigning in Texas on Thursday, Kamala Harris reeled off the campaign arguments she has been honing since Sunday: education, abortion rights, accessible health care…

She did not hold back her attacks on the former Republican president: Donald Trump and his allies “have the nerve to tell teachers to put a gun in the classroom while they refuse to adopt common sense laws on gun safety,” the fifty-year-old told the American Federation of Teachers.

“Donald Trump and his extremist allies want to return our nation to failed economic policies,” she added.

The vice president also mentioned the bans in several conservative states of books dealing with subjects related to gender, sexuality or even racism: “We want to ban assault weapons, and they want to ban books.”

Her first campaign video was released Thursday, and the Democrat can boast of having a song by superstar Beyoncé as its soundtrack, despite being known for keeping tight control over her music.

Kamala Harris, now almost certain to be officially nominated by her party for the November presidential election, was violently attacked by Donald Trump on Wednesday evening, during a rally in North Carolina.

He had accused her of being in favor of “executing babies” in an anti-abortion diatribe. The former president also, as he did for each of his opponents, dubbed her with a nickname: “Kamala-the-liar.”

“Very beautiful moment”

Donald Trump’s running mate, JD Vance, drew the ire of actress Jennifer Aniston on Thursday for his comment about Kamala Harris not having children, disdaining “old cat maids without children.”

“I really can’t believe this is coming from a potential Vice President of the United States,” the star of the series commented on Instagram. Friendswho had publicly reported her failures to conceive.

On Wednesday night, Joe Biden, from the Oval Office of the White House, explained his decision to leave the campaign. He assured that he had done so to “save democracy” and make way for “younger voices” – Kamala Harris is more than 20 years his junior.

“A selfless act, something that very few politicians would do,” the White House spokeswoman said Thursday.