Harris accepts CNN debate invitation for October 23, again challenging Trump to another showdown | CNN Politics
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Vice President Kamala Harris on Saturday accepted an invitation from CNN to debate former President Donald Trump on October 23, challenging her rival to another engagement on a public stage in the final weeks of the campaign.
  • kescusay@lemmy.world
    104·
    2 months ago

    She’s going to show up, he won’t, and it’ll be an opportunity to take tough questions without having to share time and a stage with a gasbag idiot.

    • linearchaos@lemmy.worldEnglish
      5313·
      2 months ago

      I’m actually kind of worried that this will happen. In that vacuum she’s going to use the time to bridge the gap between the left and the right. The last thing I really want from her is more talk about supporting fracking, more soft stance on Palestine, and more words about hardline on immigration. I get that she’s trying to draw more of the right in politically but I’m also worried that she is dangerously close to having the far left get disenfranchised.

        • linearchaos@lemmy.worldEnglish
          41·
          2 months ago

          They will feel that the value of their vote isn’t worth the time to cast it. They will no longer be driven to vote and will stay at home. That this effect will negate, if not cripple, the numbers we’d have even with whatever moderate right can be convinced to vote.

    • WoahWoah@lemmy.world
      153·
      2 months ago

      I actually think that would probably go poorly for Harris. The mistake-tolerance for Harris is tiny because left and left-leaning voters are often hyper-purity idealogues. Trump’s supporters are also working on a purity ideology, but they are extremely mistake-tolerant because their purity test is literally supporting Trump. He’s basically one, long series of mistakes and it barely moves his numbers.

      Harris does not have that luxury by any stretch of the imagination.

      • Ben@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        2 months ago

        I’d agree with this - for Trump, it’s basically just a personality thing and his policies and what he says are less relevant (everyone knows he’s just a joker that talks crap… so you should ignore what he ACTUALLY says and trust that he will deliver… sth like that) whereas for Harris, people listen to what she doesn’t say and expect that she’s hiding the fact that she’ll install surgeries in schools to do stealthy operations so she can send Harry home as Harriette…

        I do feel more optimistic that the world can be saved from more Trump - but it’s not yet guaranteed.

  • SulaymanF@lemmy.world
    30·
    2 months ago

    Trump on Saturday argued it was “too late” to have another presidential debate because Americans have begun casting their ballots in the 2024 election.

    He has no clue when the election is and is looking for an excuse to say no. I’m sure a staffer told him this idea.

    • DontRedditMyLemmy@lemmy.world
      11·
      2 months ago

      I heard somewhere that we might expect Trump to flip on this when he realizes it leaves Vance as the last one in the debate spotlight.

    • Furbag@lemmy.world
      7·
      2 months ago

      But wait! I thought mail-in ballots were fraud? If only the in-person voting on Nov 5th counts according to Republicans, why is he concerned with people casting their ballots before that date? It’s not November yet, so plenty of time for another debate so Harris can humiliate Trump again.

      The duplicity of the Republican party never ceases to amaze me. I mean, I’m not surprised by their nonsense anymore really, I’m just amazed that there are so many people who have been spoon-fed election lies from Trump and they don’t even blink after an about-face like that.

  • Imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.works
    25·
    2 months ago

    If he saying he’s not going to be there, you know he’s 100% going to be there. He’s many terrible things, but he’s consistent AF when it comes to doing the exact opposite of what comes out of his mouth.

    • xenoclast@lemmy.world
      3·
      2 months ago

      He’s a performer, not a politician. He will do anything for an audience. He’s worse than a drug addicted comedian doing anything for attention.

      Once you see him like that. Literally everything he does makes sense.

      He didn’t want to be president and still doesn’t. He just wants the most attention.

  • DontRedditMyLemmy@lemmy.world
    13·
    2 months ago

    Do it Jeopardy style. Goad him in by saying we’re going to determine who the smartest candidate is once and for all. Invite Stein to keep it interesting.

  • Hux@lemmy.ml
    11·
    2 months ago

    I think October 23rd would be an ideal date to organize anyone with a non-disclosure agreement with Trump to break that agreement en masse and share all the details of what he doesn’t want the public to know.

    It’s be great fodder for the news cycle leading up to Election Day and I doubt Trump has the resources to legally pursue so many people for NDA breaches at the same time.

  • reddig33@lemmy.world
    52·
    2 months ago

    Once was enough. VP debate is coming soon, then it will be time for the election.