Fresh off the three-on-one ABC debate, which had many speculating that Vice President Kamala Harris had been given the debate questions in advance and, even worse, wore an earpiece, former President Donald Trump said there would not be a third debate.
“When a prizefighter loses a fight, the first words out of his mouth are, ‘I WANT A REMATCH,'” Trump posted on Truth Social. “Polls clearly show that I won the Debate against Comrade Kamala Harris, the Democrats’ Radical Left Candidate, on Tuesday night, and she immediately called for a Second Debate. She and Crooked Joe have destroyed our Country, with millions of criminals and mentally deranged people pouring into the USA, totally unchecked and unvetted, and with Inflation bankrupting our Middle Class.
“Everyone knows this, and all of the other problems caused by Kamala and Joe – It was discussed in great detail during the First Debate with Joe, and the Second Debate with Comrade Harris. She was a no-show at the Fox Debate, and refused to do NBC & CBS. KAMALA SHOULD FOCUS ON WHAT SHE SHOULD HAVE DONE DURING THE LAST ALMOST FOUR YEAR PERIOD. THERE WILL BE NO THIRD DEBATE!”
CNN’s Jake Tapper called out Harris for “punting” and “dodging” questions during the debate and failing to provide substantive policy statements.
🚨 CNN just BLASTED Kamala Harris for dodging MULTIPLE questions on the economy, border, and other issues
That’s EXTREMELY telling.
If the “moderators” weren’t simply Kamala propagandists, maybe they would’ve pressed her.
Does anyone ACTUALLY believe Kamala won the debate at… pic.twitter.com/gJ166CAgGY
— Nick Sortor (@nicksortor) September 11, 2024
In an exclusive, the New York Post spoke with Trump about his decision not to debate Harris again. Here’s the start of the story:
Donald Trump is done with debates.
“We just don’t think that there’s any need for it,” the 45th president exclusively told The Post Thursday after announcing on Truth Social he would not take the stage against Vice President Kamala Harris again.
“We’ve done two. You know, one against Biden [on June 27], one against Comrade Kamala. I did well. I did really well,” the 78-year-old said during a phone interview.
“The debate polls, every single poll, had us winning it.”
Shortly before Trump’s announcement, the campaign blasted out a “confidential memorandum” claiming that its internal polling had showed the Republican nominee gaining two percentage points on Harris among likely voters across seven unidentified “target states.”
The GOP campaign had previously argued that the Harris camp should “stop f—ing around,” in the words of one Trump spokesperson, and take up the former president’s offer of a Sept. 25 debate hosted by NBC News.
Instead, the Harris camp countered by proposing a debate to be held sometime in October.
“There’s no debate on the 25th,” Trump told The Post Thursday afternoon. “Nothing has been arranged.”