Former President Donald J. Trump ended two days of speculation over whether he’d be participating in another debate with Democrat nominee Kamala Harris.
Coming off of what was perhaps the most unfair debate in modern history, or at least since CNN’s Candy Crowley teamed up with Barack Obama against the hapless Mitt Romney, the GOP nominee slammed the door on the rematch that Harris’ team and others have been begging for.
In a Thursday afternoon post to Truth Social, Trump made it clear that he’s not going to do a third debate, living up to his end of the bargain for the two that he agreed to, the one against Harris and ABC News moderators Linsey Davis and David Muir, and the other with Joe Biden on CNN, a knockout punch to the career politician’s five-decade D.C. career.
“When a prizefighter loses a fight, the first words out of his mouth are, ‘I WANT A REMATCH.’ Polls clearly show that I won the Debate against Comrade Kamala Harris, the Democrats’ Radical Left Candidate, on Tuesday night, and she immediately called for a Second Debate. She and Crooked Joe have destroyed our Country, with millions of criminals and mentally deranged people pouring into the USA, totally unchecked and unvetted, and with Inflation bankrupting our Middle Class,” he wrote.
(Screenshot: Truth Social)
“Everyone knows this, and all of the other problems caused by Kamala and Joe – It was discussed in great detail during the First Debate with Joe, and the Second Debate with Comrade Harris. She was a no-show at the Fox Debate, and refused to do NBC & CBS. KAMALA SHOULD FOCUS ON WHAT SHE SHOULD HAVE DONE DURING THE LAST ALMOST FOUR YEAR PERIOD. THERE WILL BE NO THIRD DEBATE!” Trump stated.
Despite the now obvious false pretense of fairness and rules, the ABC News debate was a disgrace with Harris being treated with kid gloves and not made to explain her proposed policies. Instead, reeling off attacks on Trump and well-rehearsed short speeches that were written by someone else, Muir and Davis joined the tag-team with their favorite candidate in a three-on-one against the former president.
Trump was hit with repeated “fact checks” that interrupted him and threw him off his game while the moderators gave Harris wide leeway to repeatedly spew disinformation with impunity, not calling her on one of her litany of lies including the very fine people “on both sides” hoax that has been debunked.
This clip may be the most egregious example of ABC debate moderators’ direct actions/inactions to affect viewers’ perceptions of the information presented at the debate.
There are at least seven instances of this within a two-minute span.
This is not “bias.”
It’s much worse.… pic.twitter.com/tYJhZwGwdW
— Western Lensman (@WesternLensman) September 11, 2024
Before the debate, longtime Democrat strategist James Carville just couldn’t help himself, giving the game away when he crowed that Trump was “walking into a giant trap” which is exactly what the ABC-Disney ambush turned out to be.
“I think she had the questions. And I think that the anchors … were a disgrace to American journalism,” Trump told the New York Post, suggesting that someone at the network helped Harris to cheat.
“You saw the way that was done, that was ridiculous,” Trump added. “They didn’t challenge her on all of those things that they knew were false.”
The ABC debate was so rigged and unfair that the question is why would ANY Republican EVER agree to participate in a mainstream media debate again?
Trump would have to be crazy to do another debate hosted by any network other than Fox News, and Harris would never agree to that because she would then have to stand on her own merits or lack thereof.
So as he said, no third debate.
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