Trump’s campaign and allies have spent the post-debate period complaining because ABC News moderators David Muir and Linsey Davis fact-checked Trump, including on false claims about infanticide and migrants eating pets in Ohio. (Photo by Win McNamee/Getty Images)
After a poor showing in Tuesday night’s ABC News presidential debate, Republican nominee Donald Trump said Thursday in a post to his social media platform he will not participate in any more debates with Democratic candidate Vice President Kamala Harris before the Nov. 5 election.
The Harris campaign team said immediately after the Tuesday event that she wanted another debate sometime in October.
But Trump put in definitive terms Thursday that he would not take part in another debate with Harris.
“KAMALA SHOULD FOCUS ON WHAT SHE SHOULD HAVE DONE DURING THE LAST ALMOST FOUR YEAR PERIOD. THERE WILL BE NO THIRD DEBATE!” Trump wrote in a Truth Social post.
In her own tweet roughly an hour after Trump’s, Harris renewed her call for another debate.
“Two nights ago, Donald Trump and I had our first debate,” she wrote. “We owe it to the voters to have another debate.”
In an average of three national polls compiled by 538, the polling news and data division of ABC News, 57% of respondents said Harris won the debate and 34% said Trump won. That included a Republican-sponsored survey.
Trump’s campaign and allies have spent the post-debate period complaining about ABC News moderators David Muir and Linsey Davis fact-checking Trump, including on false claims about infanticide and migrants eating pets in Ohio.
There will be one more debate — between vice presidential nominees U.S. Sen. J.D. Vance and Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, who are scheduled to meet Oct. 1 in New York City.
Meanwhile, Trump is scheduled to hold a rally in Las Vegas Friday night.