Former US President and Republican Donald Trump announced he will not debate Democratic Vice President Kamala Harris, hours after Fox News invited the two presidential contenders to a second debate on either October 24 or 27, Reuters reported.
“There will be no reunion,” Trump wrote on his social network, Truth Social. “There is nothing to debate”, he was categorical.
The Republican added that the race for the White House is too advanced to stage a new debate.
Trump and Harris debated each other for the first and last time on September 10. The Republican then announced that there would be no more televised debates before the Nov. 5 election and declined an invitation from CNN for an Oct. 23 debate, which the Democratic nominee accepted.
Fox said in a statement that a second debate “would give each candidate an opportunity to restate their case at the very end of the campaign.”
Last week, Harris’ running mate and Minnesota governor Tim Walz and Trump’s running mate and US Senate member JD Vance debated in a televised duel between the two.
In late June, Trump took part in a debate with then-Democratic candidate and US President Joe Biden.
Biden withdrew from the presidential race less than a month after his disastrous performance in the televised duel. After him, Trump built up a convincing lead in the polls over Biden, but subsequently, when Harris entered the race for the White House in Biden’s place, the contest became contested again; according to some sociological studies, she even has a slight lead.
At the Sept. 10 debate, Harris put Trump on the defensive with a series of attacks on his fitness for office, his support for abortion restrictions and the large number of lawsuits against him, Reuters noted.
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