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We owe it to the voters. Because here’s the thing … in this election, what’s at stake could not be more important,
she told a crowd of an estimated 17,000 in Greensboro The debate was a mess for Trump, yes. But these answers are simply toxic. In almost any other circumstance, any one of these answers might drive days of a media crisis for the candidate. Taken together, they are an unmitigated disaster,
Frankly, it could have been done better.”
Asked by the Associated Press about Trump’s failure to press Harris on policy issues, John Thune of South Dakota, the number two Senate Republican, said They’re eating the dogs, the people that came in, they’re eating the cats,
Trump claimed during the debate Another meeting ... I don’t think they got enough into the substance of their differences. I hope there’s another debate.”
The vice president is clear she believes there should be another debate, and we do not consider this to be the last word from him,
Harris spokesman Brian Fallon told Politico I have agreed to the previously agreed-upon Sept. 10 debate. He agreed to that previously,
Harris told reporters five days after Biden exited the race I look forward to the debates because I think we have to set the record straight,
Americans want to hear both candidates present their competing visions to the voters, unburdened by what has been. No notes, no sitting down, no advance copies of the questions. We’ll see you in Philadelphia next Tuesday,
Trump campaign senior adviser Jason Miller told the Washington Examiner I haven’t agreed to anything. I agreed to a debate with Joe Biden,
I’ll see her September 4th, or I won’t see her at all,
he posted in reference to his proposed Fox News debate, noting Harris We accepted the full set of rules proposed by ABC, including muted microphones,
the Harris campaign wrote It’s interesting how ‘any time, any place’ becomes ‘one specific time, one specific safe space,
Harris posted on X following Trump’s posts Listen, if Kamala Harris sees a bump in the polls from her performance in the debate, where I think most folks think that she won, I could see a world where in a couple of weeks Donald Trump actually says, ‘I challenge her to a debate,
So, I actually think there’s a world in which he tries to flip the narrative and agree to another debate,
The negative case against Kamala Harris is there, but has yet to firmly implant itself in the public mind because she hasn’t had to endure a single withering negative news cycle since getting in the race,
One bad campaign is better than 10 good ones."
Or as the Republican consultant Alex Castellanos put it Voters got to see the choice they will face at the ballot box: moving forward with Kamala Harris or going backwards with Trump."
Continuing to demand this on Thursday as well, the campaign said We just don't think it's necessary...We think we've discussed everything and I don't think they want it either."
When asked about a second debate with Harris during an interview at a rally in Arizona on Thursday, Trump said He felt that Harris wouldn't have the type of performance she did and now he's running scared,