Wilmington: Saying it was “too late” with early voting already under way in several states, Donald Trump turned down a second debate against Kamala Harris on Saturday before the election on November 5. Harris’s team said earlier on Saturday that she had accepted CNN’s invitation to take part in a debate on October 23. It was scheduled to be the candidates’ second debate, following the one on September 10th, which most commentators predicted she would win.
In a statement, Jen O’Malley Dillon, the chair of her campaign, stated that “the American people deserve another opportunity to see Vice President Kamala Harris and Donald Trump debate before they cast their ballots.”
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Although Trump stated he would want to debate and called it “good entertainment value” at a campaign event in the battleground state of North Carolina, the concept had been dashed before early voting began in several states.
“It’s just too late, voting has already started,” remarked the politician.
In front of a sizable and fervent group of fans, he went on to say that although CNN had been “very fair” during his June debate with President Joe Biden, “they won’t be fair again.”
Vice President Harris took the helm of the Democratic ticket in lieu of her boss, Joe Biden, 81, following his appalling performance in his loss to Trump.
After withdrawing from the contest, 78-year-old Trump—the oldest presidential nominee ever—was pitted against 59-year-old Harris.
Voting underway
The statement on Saturday coincided with the start of early voting in several states in this incredibly close contest.
Seven battleground states—including North Carolina—will determine the outcome.
In Wilmington, a port city, Trump spoke to the crowd from behind bulletproof glass after what appeared to be a second attempt at his assassination.
Last Sunday, a shooter was found on his Florida golf course, and security personnel thwarted any attempt to attack the former president.
At a rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, in July, a gunman opened fire from an adjacent rooftop, striking Trump in the ear with a bullet. In the startling security failure, the US Secret Service, which was entrusted with the candidate’s protection, acknowledged “deficiencies” and “complacency” on Friday.
Anti-immigrant rhetoric
In the 2020 election, North Carolina was won by Trump over Biden.
However, Harris hopes to turn the state’s southeast electoral margin toward the Democratic Party thanks to the backing of young and African American voters.
The extreme anti-immigrant language that has become a campaign focus was reinforced by Trump’s speech on Saturday. He made the incorrect assertion that migrants were “attacking villages and cities all throughout the Midwest.”
In addition, he assured the assembly that the US will “arrive on Mars before the end of my administration.”
The Republican candidate for governor, Mark Robinson, whom Trump has endorsed, was exposed in a shocking story on Thursday to have dubbed himself a “Black Nazi” and made other offensive remarks on a pornographic website. This presented the former president with a new hurdle in North Carolina.
The CNN piece, according to Robinson, is full of “salacious tabloid lies.”
Every vote matters in the election, which will determine the outcome of the presidential contest, which is still very close. Trump has yet again declined to indicate whether he will accept a loss.
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Criminal charges are pending against Trump for allegedly attempting to reverse the 2020 election results. On January 6, 2021, his followers brutally stormed the US Capitol.
