Kamala Harris‘ marketing campaign stated that she has agreed to take part in a second presidential debate with Donald Trump, accepting a CNN proposal for an Oct. 23 occasion.
Trump has stated that there will probably be no more debates following the ABC News occasion final week. The previous president has beforehand stated that he would settle for a Fox News sponsored occasion.
Jen O’Malley Dillon, Harris’ marketing campaign chair, stated in an announcement, “The American folks deserve one other alternative to see Vice President Kamala Harris and Donald Trump debate earlier than they forged their ballots. It will be unprecedented in fashionable historical past for there to simply be one common election debate. Debates supply a singular probability for voters to see the candidates facet by facet and take inventory of their competing visions for America.”
She added, “Vice President Harris is prepared for one more alternative to share a stage with Donald Trump, and he or she has accepted CNN’s invitation to a debate on October 23. Donald Trump should not have any drawback agreeing to this debate. It’s the identical format and setup because the CNN debate he attended and stated he received in June, when he praised CNN’s moderators, guidelines and scores.”
Trump and President Joe Biden debated in June, in a disastrous efficiency by the president that led to him dropping out of the race virtually a month later.
There was at the least one presidential debate every cycle since 1976. Jimmy Carter and Ronald Reagan had only one debate in 1980.
