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BumRushDaShow

(149,948 posts)
Tue Oct 8, 2024, 06:52 PM Oct 2024

CNN issues deadline for Trump and Harris to agree to final 2024 debate

Source: CNN Business

Updated 12:53 PM EDT, Tue October 8, 2024


New York CNN — The window for a final 2024 presidential debate between former President Donald Trump and Vice President Kamala Harris is closing. CNN has publicly offered to host a debate in Atlanta on October 23. Harris has accepted the invitation and welcomed the chance to debate Trump again, but Trump has rejected her calls. On Tuesday, CNN stepped up the pressure by writing to both campaigns and setting a Thursday deadline for a formal response. Debates, after all, can’t be produced overnight; the events take time to organize.

“CNN sent invitations on September 21 to both Vice President Harris and former President Trump’s campaigns to participate in a CNN debate this fall as we believe the American people would benefit from a second debate between the two candidates for President of the United States,” the network said in a statement. “With less than 30 days to Election Day, we are placing a deadline for a formal response from both campaigns for this Thursday, October 10 at 12 p.m. ET to participate,” the network said.

US presidential candidates typically meet for multiple televised debates, but this election year has been anything but typical since President Joe Biden dropped out of the race weeks after the first CNN-sponsored debate in June. Harris tried to capitalize on her performance at the ABC-sponsored debate in September by immediately challenging Trump to debate again. CNN subsequently proposed an October 23 face-off in prime time at the network’s headquarters in Atlanta, the same place where Trump and Biden previously met.

The Harris campaign quickly accepted the second debate invitation, adding that “Trump should have no problem agreeing” since “it is the same format and setup as the CNN debate he attended and said he won in June, when he praised CNN’s moderators, rules, and ratings.” But Trump shunned the offer, claiming it was “too late” for a second debate. (In fact, the CNN date is in line with final debates of other recent election cycles.)

Read more: https://www.cnn.com/2024/10/08/media/trump-harris-debate-deadline-cnn

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CNN issues deadline for Trump and Harris to agree to final 2024 debate (Original Post) BumRushDaShow Oct 2024 OP
TFG will wuss out, of course. Ocelot II Oct 2024 #1
Nothing short of a $100 million payday would get Trump to.. yourout Oct 2024 #2
Trump will chicken 🐔 out. He's afraid of Kamala now. canuckledragger Oct 2024 #3
And when trump declines will you be airing the new documentary (Separated) before the election ??? SamKnause Oct 2024 #4
that is NBC NoRethugFriends Oct 2024 #5
Thanks SamKnause Oct 2024 #7
Another fucking false headline. Shouldn't it read the following if honest: texasfiddler Oct 2024 #6
Exactly MangoPulpinaSuit Oct 2024 #13
This message was self-deleted by its author Chin music Oct 2024 #14
This bogus headline agingdem Oct 2024 #23
Is another one really necessary? orange jar Oct 2024 #8
Exactly, what is the point of this kabuki theatre? Boomerproud Oct 2024 #10
Say what? The firsd one changed a shitload. NoRethugFriends Oct 2024 #12
Agreed relayerbob Oct 2024 #20
Bok! Bok! Nt Fiendish Thingy Oct 2024 #9
Trump's response: Bawk, Bawk Bawk Bawk. Bawk BAWK Bawk, Bawk. Bawk..Bawk Bawk Bawk....BAWK!!! cstanleytech Oct 2024 #11
... and he balks. . . . . .nt Bernardo de La Paz Oct 2024 #24
I see nothing to be gained. RandySF Oct 2024 #15
Yeah that's gonna happen lol... WarGamer Oct 2024 #16
He's a coward and I'm sure his staff is cautioning him to not do it ! kimbutgar Oct 2024 #17
does'nt matter anymore than cnn does. nt miyazaki Oct 2024 #18
Add "I didn't want to do another fixed debate" to the long list of excuses LastLiberal in PalmSprings Oct 2024 #19
If his staff have a lick of common sense between them relayerbob Oct 2024 #21
CNN wants the advertising money. They don't give a fuck about the debate or the country. C Moon Oct 2024 #22
Tubby McTraitor will never agree to another debate. 634-5789 Oct 2024 #25
No. The cake is baked. bucolic_frolic Oct 2024 #26
Bawk, bawk, bawk, said the orange chicken hawk. lark Oct 2024 #27
What a coward!' Trump ripped for refusing to debate Kamala Harris on Fox News LetMyPeopleVote Oct 2024 #28
Statement from Harris Walz Campaign on CNN Townhall and Debate Invitation LetMyPeopleVote Oct 2024 #29
 

canuckledragger

(1,992 posts)
3. Trump will chicken 🐔 out. He's afraid of Kamala now.
Tue Oct 8, 2024, 06:59 PM
Oct 2024

He's afraid of her now, after she repeatedly kicked him in the nuts the entire debate, smiling the whole time.

SamKnause

(14,130 posts)
4. And when trump declines will you be airing the new documentary (Separated) before the election ???
Tue Oct 8, 2024, 07:08 PM
Oct 2024

Your excuse was the debate.

What new excuse will you come up with ???

SamKnause

(14,130 posts)
7. Thanks
Tue Oct 8, 2024, 07:15 PM
Oct 2024

Why did NBC give that as an excuse ???

I must be totally confused.

That happens.

Too much evil shit to keep track of.

Thanks for the correction.

texasfiddler

(2,197 posts)
6. Another fucking false headline. Shouldn't it read the following if honest:
Tue Oct 8, 2024, 07:13 PM
Oct 2024

"CNN ISSUES DEADLINE FOR TRUMP TO AGREE TO FINAL 2024 DEBATE". Hasn't she already agreed to the debate? We aren't complacent, like 2016, we just don't know our enemy.

Response to texasfiddler (Reply #6)

agingdem

(8,544 posts)
23. This bogus headline
Wed Oct 9, 2024, 05:10 AM
Oct 2024

Last edited Wed Oct 9, 2024, 10:52 AM - Edit history (2)

is one of many reasons CNN is showing its age (as is legacy media in general) and why the once stellar network is quickly becoming irrelevant...Harris agreed to another debate months ago and Trump did not...simple and unambiguous...

It's morbidly entertaining watching CNN's hosts trip over their mouths... Kaitlin Collins/Trump 2023 town hall...Collins imploring "President Trump" to shut up and focus, and a Trump friendly audience cheering Trump denigrating E Jean Carroll with profanity, denials and sexual innuendo ...Biden/Trump July catastrophic debate...moderators Jake Tapper and Dana Bash going fetal, unable to turn off Trump's spigot of lies and ceding the stage to Trump's toxic vomit.... Kamala Harris/Dana Bash interview...Bash tossing Harris a series of Trump talking points masked as questions and Harris metaphorically hitting Bash over the head with a dismissive smile....MAGA idiot Scott Jennings spinning Trump's Hitler-speak and nonsensical verbal garbage as legitimate political discourse and getting fact-checked by politically savvy Democrats in real time...

orange jar

(878 posts)
8. Is another one really necessary?
Tue Oct 8, 2024, 07:15 PM
Oct 2024

If #1 and #2 (and #3 if we count the VP debate) didn't change anything, then what would be the point of another one? IMO, the time it takes to prepare for a debate can be better spent campaigning in states like PA.

NoRethugFriends

(3,239 posts)
12. Say what? The firsd one changed a shitload.
Tue Oct 8, 2024, 08:25 PM
Oct 2024

Another one would reinforce it, since Trump grows more incoherent and demented by the day.

RandySF

(73,026 posts)
15. I see nothing to be gained.
Tue Oct 8, 2024, 09:10 PM
Oct 2024

The press will call it a comeback if TRump gets through it without shitting in front of the podium.

kimbutgar

(24,655 posts)
17. He's a coward and I'm sure his staff is cautioning him to not do it !
Tue Oct 8, 2024, 09:14 PM
Oct 2024

As she will kick his big fat a$$ on live Tv and make magas heads explode!

19. Add "I didn't want to do another fixed debate" to the long list of excuses
Tue Oct 8, 2024, 09:42 PM
Oct 2024

he'll have for losing the election. Just another reason for overthrowing the election by force. They'll be armed and trained this time. And they'll have a plan.

If (when) he loses, all hell will break out. The main deterrent will be the multi-year prison sentences the last bunch of insurrectionists have received. There's something about losing your freedom, your life savings, your job or business, friends, your good name, your marriage and watching your young children grow up that makes you think twice (or three times) about putting on a red "Stop the Steal" hat and attacking the nation's Capitol, which will be surrounded by razor wire, national guardsmen, and a division of the Capitol police, seeking retribution for January 6th.

And for what? A senile old man whose sole reason for wanting to be president is to stay out of prison.

bucolic_frolic

(49,498 posts)
26. No. The cake is baked.
Wed Oct 9, 2024, 07:57 AM
Oct 2024

There is no reason to give that clown another platform to misinform and lie his ass off.

lark

(24,764 posts)
27. Bawk, bawk, bawk, said the orange chicken hawk.
Wed Oct 9, 2024, 08:36 AM
Oct 2024

Putin has told him he looked too weak and should never do another debate and he always does what Putin wants - he owns him.

LetMyPeopleVote

(160,817 posts)
28. What a coward!' Trump ripped for refusing to debate Kamala Harris on Fox News
Thu Oct 10, 2024, 12:00 PM
Oct 2024

TFG is too scared to debate Kamala Harris again



https://www.rawstory.com/coward-trump-ripped-for-refusing-to-debate-kamala-harris-on-fox-news/

Former President Donald Trump on late Wednesday elicited mockery when he ruled out doing another debate with Vice President Kamala Harris even within the friendly confines of Fox News.

The former president made his announcement in an all-caps post on his Truth Social page.....

"What a coward!" commented the Republicans Against Trump Twitter account.

The Four Seasons Total Landscaping parody account, meanwhile, taunted Trump by posting a video of a man in a chicken suit.

SiriusXM host Dean Obeidallah, on the other hand, speculated that Trump's "handlers won't let him" debate "because he will bomb horribly!"...











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