Kamala Harris is once again challenging Donald Trump to a debate. This time, the vice president wants to duke it out on CNN on October 23rd, over a month after early voting has already started.
She made that announcement on social media, quoting a post from CNN’s Kaitlan Collins.
Everyone knows what this is. CNN, which has already done a debate this cycle, didn’t just randomly decide to offer another debate after Harris already refused to show up for the Fox News and NBC News debates on offer. Networks do not normally host two presidential debates in one cycle anyway.
This is a coordinated gambit cooked up by CNN and the Harris campaign. The former wants a mulligan for all the criticism it got for supposedly going soft on Trump (i.e. being fair and not constantly interrupting him) in the debate against Joe Biden. No doubt, Dana Bash is salivating at the opportunity to show she can be a complete hack as well. Meanwhile, Harris wants another chance to throw some highly scripted punches just before election day to build a little last-second hype.
Thankfully, Donald Trump has done the smart thing and told the vice president where she can put her challenge. According to the former president, there will be no third debate.
America doesn’t want to listen to poorly scripted and even more poorly delivered Harris-DNC twattle. She can’t hide her four years of failure with unending attempts to gaslight us.