After being challenged by the Democratic candidate, Donald Trump refused a new debate with Kamala Harris, to be held before the elections, scheduled for November.
“It’s too late to organize a new debate. Voting has already started,” said Donald Trump, quoted by Agence France Presse, at a rally in North Carolina, referring to the start of early voting on Friday in some states North Americans.
Kamala Harris had proposed this Saturday to hold a new debate with the Republican candidate, on CNN, on October 23, a few days before the elections.
“Vice President Harris is ready to face Donald Trump once again on stage,” her campaign team wrote in a statement.
Most polls indicate that Harris dominated the debate held on September 10, constantly drawing her rival into issues in which the Republican candidate was least comfortable, in particular his international reputation.
This did not stop Trump from claiming that, on the contrary, it was he who won the debate, while at the same time attacking the impartiality of the two ABC television journalists who moderated the discussion.
However, in the middle of this month Trump said that there would not be a new debate for the presidential campaign, showing himself skeptical about the advantages of a new confrontation between the two candidates.
45 days before the elections, the outcome of the presidential elections remains more undecided than ever, with Donald Trump and Kamala Harris side by side in several of the seven key states where everything will probably be decided.
Early in-person voting for the US presidential election kicked off on Friday in three states, a milestone that begins a six-week race until voting day in November, after a summer of intense political unrest.
Voters lined up to vote in Minnesota, South Dakota and Virginia, the three states with the first in-person voting opportunities, which will be followed by about a dozen more in mid-October.
The start of early in-person voting comes after a turbulent summer in American politics, which included the withdrawal of current President Joe Biden from the race for the White House and his replacement by Vice President Kamala Harris as the Democratic Party candidate in the elections scheduled for November 5th.
Article updated at 8:40 pm
