2 weeks Ago By Tom Ozimek
Vice President Kamala Harris has accepted an invitation from CNN to debate former President Donald Trump for a second time, though the fate of another showdown between the presidential candidates is unclear. Trump said after their first face-off that he would not agree to another debate, but has since said he might consider it. If an Oct.
23 debate went ahead, Trump and Harris would respond to moderators’ questions for 90 minutes without a live studio audience. “Both Vice President Harris and former President Trump received an invitation to participate in a CNN debate this fall as we believe the American people would benefit from a second debate between the two candidates for President of the United States,” CNN said in a statement . “We look forward to receiving a response from both campaigns so the American public can hear more from these candidates as they make their final decision.
” The former president said after his first debate against Harris that there will be no subsequent debate between the two rivals after the Harris camp suggested another debate. “When a prizefighter loses a fight, the first words out of his mouth are, ‘I want a rematch’” the former president wrote on social media, partly in all caps, before suggesting that he “won the debate,” citing undisclosed polls. In a social media post on Thursday, Trump signaled that he believes he made his point in the two previous debates about illegal immigration, the economy, and other policies that contrast his platform from Harris’s.
However, Trump appeared to soften his stance last week, telling reporters in California that he might be open to another debate. “Maybe if I got in the right mood,” Trump said. The Trump campaign did not respond to an inquiry regarding CNN’s invitation for a second debate against Harris.
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