{"id":32519,"date":"2024-09-22T10:12:00","date_gmt":"2024-09-22T15:12:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/?p=32519"},"modified":"2024-09-22T19:44:58","modified_gmt":"2024-09-23T00:44:58","slug":"trump-rejects-harris-challenge-to-debate-again-on-cnn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/?p=32519","title":{"rendered":"Trump rejects Harris&#8217; challenge to debate again on CNN"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">WASHINGTON, Sept 21 (Reuters) &#8211;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/topic\/person\/donald-trump\/\"><u>Donald Trump<\/u><\/a>&nbsp;on Saturday rejected another debate with Vice President&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/us\/kamala-harris\/\"><u>Kamala Harris<\/u><\/a>&nbsp;before the U.S. presidential election, hours after the Democratic candidate&#8217;s campaign said she had agreed to an Oct. 23 matchup with her Republican rival on CNN.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">&#8220;Vice President Harris is ready for another opportunity to share a stage with Donald Trump, and she has accepted CNN&#8217;s invitation to a debate on October 23. Donald Trump should have no problem agreeing to this debate,&#8221; Jen O&#8217;Malley Dillon, the chair of the Harris campaign, said in a statement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Trump stuck to his previous position that there would not be another debate before voters go to the polls in the Nov. 5 election.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">&#8220;The problem with another debate is that it&#8217;s just too late. Voting has already started,&#8221; the former U.S. president told supporters at a rally in Wilmington, North Carolina.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Harris and Trump&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/us\/trump-harris-clash-debate-that-could-reshape-2024-race-2024-09-10\/\"><u>debated<\/u><\/a>&nbsp;each other for the first time on Sept. 10, in a contest that polls showed she won.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Trump debated President Joe Biden in June.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Biden&#8217;s shaky performance in that debate rattled Democrats and prompted strategists to ask whether their party should take the unprecedented step of replacing the 81-year old president as their candidate. Biden&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/us\/biden-pulls-out-presidential-race-live-2024-07-21\/\"><u>withdrew<\/u><\/a>&nbsp;from the race for the White House in July.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/us\/harris-accepts-cnn-invitation-second-debate-urges-trump-join-2024-09-21\/\">reuters<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON, Sept 21 (Reuters) &#8211;&nbsp;Donald Trump&nbsp;on Saturday rejected another debate with Vice President&nbsp;Kamala Harris&nbsp;before the U.S. presidential election, hours after the Democratic candidate&#8217;s campaign said she had agreed to an Oct. 23 matchup with her Republican rival on CNN. &#8220;Vice President Harris is ready for another opportunity to share a stage with Donald Trump, and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":32521,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[1449,1918,2302,7292,1230],"class_list":["post-32519","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics","tag-cnn","tag-debate","tag-harris","tag-rejection","tag-trump"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32519","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=32519"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32519\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32522,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32519\/revisions\/32522"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/32521"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=32519"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=32519"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=32519"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}