Democratic candidate Kamala Harris on Saturday challenged her Republican opponent Donald Trump to a debate again on CNN on October 23, a few days before the US presidential election.
“Vice President Harris is ready to take on Donald Trump on stage once again,” her campaign wrote in a statement.
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 the September 10 meeting, constantly drawing her rival to the subjects most likely to hurt his ego – attendance at his meetings, 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.
Donald Trump’s team did not immediately respond to AFP’s requests for comment on the possibility that he would ultimately accept this new exchange.
“There will be no third debate,” the Republican candidate had asserted in mid-September, counting his televised exchange in June with President Joe Biden, then still a candidate, in addition to his confrontation with the vice-president.
Seven states to win
With 44 days to go until the election, the outcome of the presidential election remains more uncertain than ever, with Donald Trump and Kamala Harris neck and neck in several of the seven key states where everything will be decided.
The septuagenarian Republican will be at a campaign event 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 invigorated 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 about Nazism and slavery on a pornographic website 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.