Harris Torches Trump for Refusing to Debate Her

Kamala Harris’s campaign didn’t hold back Thursday after Donald Trump had yet another major meltdown about not debating the vice president.

Fox News announced Wednesday that it had sent both candidates letters inviting them to an end-of-October debate. Hours later, Trump posted a wild, all-caps rant to Truth Social, making it clear he has no intention of returning to the debate stage.

“I WON THE LAST TWO DEBATES, ONE WITH CROOKED JOE, THE OTHER WITH LYIN’ KAMALA,” Trump wrote .

“I ACCEPTED THE FOX-NEWS INVITATION TO DEBATE KAMALA ON SEPTEMBER 4TH, BUT SHE TURNED IT DOWN,” Trump ranted.

In reality, Trump has offered several excuses as to why there was no need for him to debate Harris again. Harris had previously accepted CNN’s invitation to appear in another presidential debate on October 23, but Trump claimed that it was “too late” for another presidential debate because early voting had already begun in some states.

The Republican nominee has also compared himself to a fighter with nothing left to prove, a claim he repeated in his rant Wednesday.

“THE FIRST THING A PRIZEFIGHTER DOES WHEN HE LOSES A FIGHT IS SAY THAT HE ‘DEMANDS A REMATCH.’ IT IS VERY LATE IN THE PROCESS, VOTING HAS ALREADY BEGUN—THERE WILL BE NO REMATCH! BESIDES, KAMALA STATED CLEARLY, YESTERDAY, THAT SHE WOULD NOT DO ANYTHING DIFFERENT THAN JOE BIDEN, SO THERE IS NOTHING TO DEBATE,” Trump fumed.

Trump also shoehorned another outlandish claim into his winding social media tirade: “I AM ALSO LEADING IN THE POLLS, WITH THE LEAD GETTING BIGGER BY THE DAY—AND LEADING IN ALL SWING STATES.”

A national New York Times /Siena College poll published Tuesday found that Harris held a slim lead over Trump. In swing states, Harris and Trump are in a dead heat, mostly within the margin of error, according to Emerson College Polling. Trump, of course, reportedly only checks the conservative-leaning Rasmussen Reports polls, which found that he had a two-point lead over Harris.

After Trump turned down Fox News’s debate offer, Harris’s campaign announced that she had accepted an invitation to do a CNN town hall on October 23.

In a statement Thursday, Harris’s campaign co-chair Jen O’Malley Dillon tore into Trump over his unwillingness to appear onstage with his opponent.

“After backing out of 60 Minutes and doing 27 straight interviews with conservative media, unfortunately it is clear Trump would rather cocoon himself in safe spaces and avoid real questions about his harmful plans and failed divisive leadership,” O’Malley said. “Trump fears another debate where Vice President Harris would hold him accountable in front of tens of millions of Americans.”

“Trump may want to hide from the voters, but Vice President Harris welcomes the opportunity to share her vision for a New Way Forward for the country. She is happy to accept CNN’s invitation for a live, televised town hall on October 23 in Pennsylvania.”