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Vice President Kamala Harris mentioned Saturday that she has accepted a suggestion from CNN for a second presidential debate with former President Donald Trump on Oct. 23.
Harris mentioned in a assertion about X that she accepted the provide for the controversy and known as on her opponent to do the identical.
Vice President and Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris listens to former President and Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump throughout an ABC Information presidential debate in Philadelphia, on September 10, 2024.
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“I hope @realDonaldTrump joins me,” she wrote in her submit.
Harris’ marketing campaign challenged Trump to a brand new debate lower than an hour after the Sept. 10 ABC Information presidential debate ended. Nevertheless, Trump mentioned in a press release that he wouldn’t take part in one other debate in opposition to Harris.
At a rally Saturday in North Carolina, Trump didn’t immediately point out the CNN debate, however he did reiterate that he’s not open to a different confrontation.
“It is too late to do one. I’d like to, in some ways, but it surely’s too late. The voting is underway,” he mentioned, referring to early voting that has begun in a number of states.
Republican presidential candidate and former President Donald Trump speaks with Democratic presidential candidate and Vice President Kamala Harris throughout an ABC Information presidential debate, September 10, 2024, in Philadelphia.
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CNN’s October debate would observe the identical guidelines because the community’s June debate between Trump and President Joe Biden, Harris marketing campaign supervisor Jen O’Malley Dillon mentioned. Meaning no viewers and muting microphones when a candidate is not talking, sources with information of the principles instructed ABC Information.
The talk would happen properly after early voting has begun in a number of states throughout the nation. A debate between vice presidential candidates Gov. Tim Walz and Sen. J.D. Vance is scheduled for Oct. 1 on CBS.
This mixture of images reveals Republican presidential candidate, former President Donald Trump, left, and Democratic presidential candidate, Vice President Kamala Harris, throughout an ABC Information presidential debate, Sept. 10, 2024, in Philadelphia.
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“It might be unprecedented in fashionable historical past if there have been just one common election debate,” O’Malley Dillon mentioned in a press release, including that “debates provide voters a novel alternative to see the candidates aspect by aspect and consider their competing visions for America.”
ABC Information’ Rick Klein and Ivan Pereira contributed to this report.
