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Former US President Donald Trump has said he will not take part in a second TV debate ahead of November’s presidential election.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
While Vice-President Kamala Harris, the Democratic Party’s candidate, accepted an invitation to the CNN debate on 23 October, Republican nominee Trump told a rally it was “too late” as voting has already started.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Harris’s campaign team said that given the former president claimed to have won their previous debate in Philadelphia earlier this month he should accept.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Snap polls taken after that encounter suggested a majority of viewers believed the vice-president outperformed her challenger.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
After the 10 September debate, Trump said there would be no further debates.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Speaking at a rally in Wilmington, North Carolina on Saturday, he claimed victory in that earlier head-to-head and said “it’s just too late” for another.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
“Voting has already started,” he said, accusing Harris of seeking another round of sparring “because she’s losing badly.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
BBC: Former US President Donald Trump has said he will not take part in a second TV debate ahead of November’s presidential election. While Vice-President Kamala Harris, the Democratic Party’s candidate, accepted an invitation to the CNN debate on 23 October, Republican nominee Trump told a rally it was “too late” as voting has already started. Harris’s campaign team said that given the former president claimed to have won their previous debate in Philadelphia earlier this month he should accept. Snap polls taken after that encounter suggested a majority of viewers believed the vice-president outperformed her challenger. After the 10… <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":42196,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-42195","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-in-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42195","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=42195"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42195\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42197,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42195\/revisions\/42197"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/42196"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=42195"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=42195"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=42195"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}