(Wilmington) Republican Donald Trump on Saturday rejected a challenge from his Democratic rival Kamala Harris to debate again before the US presidential election on November 5.
“It’s too late to hold a new debate, the vote has already started,” the former president said, referring to the start of early voting in some states across the country.
The vice president had proposed a few hours earlier to her Republican opponent a confrontation on October 23, on CNN.
“I hope Donald Trump joins me,” she said on X.
” Won ”
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Kamala Harris attended a campaign rally in Savannah, Georgia on Saturday.
By all accounts, it was she who dominated their exchange on September 10, continually drawing her rival onto the subjects most likely to hurt his ego – participation in his rallies, the disaffection of his former political allies, his international reputation…
This did not prevent Donald Trump from claiming that, on the contrary, he was the one who had “won” the debate, while attacking the impartiality of the two ABC journalists who moderated the discussions.
The Republican candidate had already participated in a duel with Joe Biden in June, which was catastrophic for the Democratic president.
A few weeks later, the octogenarian leader decided to throw in the towel in favor of his vice president – one of the biggest political upheavals in American history.
Anti-migrant diatribes
Since Joe Biden’s withdrawal, the outcome of the presidential election is more uncertain than ever. Donald Trump and Kamala Harris are neck and neck in several of the seven key states where everything will probably be decided.
The septuagenarian Republican, the target of two alleged assassination attempts, was in one of them on Saturday, North Carolina, for a campaign rally.
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Donald Trump at a rally in Wilmington, North Carolina, on Saturday.
Speaking behind a massive bulletproof window, the candidate confidently predicted “his victory” in the election.
Before launching into new anti-immigration diatribes, baselessly accusing “migrants of attacking towns and cities across the Midwest,” then promising the crowd that the United States would “reach Mars by the end of his term,” and busting out little dance steps, much to the delight of his supporters.
The former president won this southeastern state, bordered by the Atlantic, in his duel with Joe Biden in 2020.
But her new rival Kamala Harris is counting on African-Americans and young people, two electorates remotivated by her candidacy, to win.
Especially since Donald Trump could suffer from a scandal targeting a candidate for governor, whom the Republican billionaire has long ardently supported.
Mark Robinson, who is aiming to become the state’s first black governor, is accused, according to CNN, of having published controversial messages, on Nazism and slavery, published on a pornographic site in the 2010s.
While the presidential election is on November 5, America has actually already started voting. Polls opened Friday for the start of early voting in Virginia, Minnesota and South Dakota.