(Washington) Democratic candidate Kamala Harris on Saturday challenged Donald Trump to debate again a few days before the American presidential election, a proposition that her Republican opponent is however expected to refuse.
“Vice President Harris is ready to take on Donald Trump once again on stage,” the 50-year-old’s campaign wrote in a statement, referring to the October 23 date, on CNN.
But that confrontation is unlikely to happen, as the former Republican president has so far rejected the idea of facing his rival again in the November 5 election.
” Won ”
By all accounts, it was she who dominated their exchange on September 10, continually drawing her rival to 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.
Asked by AFP about the possibility of Donald Trump participating in a new debate with Kamala Harris, his entourage referred to comments made by the billionaire in mid-September.
“There will be no third debate,” the Republican candidate had then asserted, counting, in addition to his confrontation with the vice-president, his televised exchange with Joe Biden.
It was a few weeks after this June debate, which was disastrous for the Democratic president, that the octogenarian leader decided to throw in the towel in favor of his vice president – one of the greatest political upheavals in American history.
Seven states to win
The outcome of the presidential election is now more uncertain than ever, with Donald Trump and Kamala Harris 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, will be at a campaign rally early this afternoon in one of them: North Carolina.
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 in November.
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.