2024-09-14 01:38:25
Former US President Donald Trump said he will not appear in a second debate with Vice President Kamala Harris, and this is a leading topic in the Western press, BTA summarized. With his statement, he drew criticism from his rivals from the Democratic Party, after being put on the defensive in the televised duel, writes the American “USA Today”.
In his post on the social network “Truth Social”, the Republican candidate referred to polls, according to which he won the showdown with Harris, but appeared to take into account online polls of people who expressed their willingness to participate in such a study, the publication noted.
At a rally in Arizona — his first campaign event since the debate — Trump spent a lot of time defending his televised appearance, criticizing the event’s host, ABC News, and attacking Harris (and Biden) on economic and immigration issues. , USA Today continues.
Charlotte Clymer, a writer and Democratic strategist, told the newspaper: “Let’s be clear: Donald Trump was slapped hard by Vice President Harris in this debate. She immediately agreed to a second debate with him. Now he has refused a second debate. Trump is coward”.
Trump, who first faced Joe Biden in televised debates, said there would be “NO THIRD DEBATE” after his campaign released a document highlighting successes in “target states,” a headline in the ” New York Post”.
No public poll of debate watchers showed Trump winning over Harris, 59, on Tuesday night, the paper said, adding that 60 percent of nonpartisan voters in a focus group said after the debate they preferred the Republican candidate.
“It’s clear that voters were unimpressed by Kamala Harris’ empty platitudes, and while the media would have people believe she’s on her way to victory, that couldn’t be further from the truth,” the study said. prepared by GOP campaign sociologists Tony Fabrizio and Travis Tunis.
It is important that Harris continues to expose Trump, but this may not be enough to win, writes American politician Bernie Sanders in the British “Guardian”. In front of the entire world, she did an extremely effective job during Tuesday’s televised debates of showing how utterly unfit Donald Trump is to be president of the United States, the analyst says.
Americans have seen him as president for four years and three times now as a presidential candidate. They are more than aware that he lies constantly, that he supported the rebellion against American democracy and that he is guilty of 34 serious crimes, writes the text in “Guardian”. Yet about half of American voters still support him – including a large majority of working-class voters, the British paper noted.
“However, I believe Harris’s chances of victory will increase if she expands her agenda to include solutions to the most important economic and political realities facing this country,” Sanders said.
Even some Republicans have acknowledged that Trump’s performance has been unconvincing, with fellow senator Lindsey Graham calling it a “missed opportunity,” and some Republican Party representatives told the US edition of Politico magazine that no are impressed by him.
Vice President Harris repeatedly tried to get on Trump’s nerves, often succeeding, as the former president veered off-topic and talked about how many people came to watch the debate, about Biden and floated the conspiracy theory about migrants kidnapping pets in a state town Ohio, writes the American newspaper “Hill”.
Donald Trump’s campaign is in bad shape after his lackluster performance in the debate against Kamala Harris irritated Republican allies who believe he was unprepared, outmaneuvered by the vice president and sent a disjointed message to voters, according to the British in. “Financial Times”.
While Republican strategists and lawmakers don’t think Trump’s uneven performance has weakened his campaign, many acknowledge the former president has struggled and that his re-election bid now looks more uncertain.
“The biggest disappointment of his performance is that he fell on the bullseye, which hindered him. So it’s definitely a missed opportunity,” said one senior Republican strategist close to Trump.
“Maybe he was overconfident. Maybe he wasn’t prepared. Maybe he was just tired,” John Catsimatidis, a New York billionaire grocery magnate and Trump donor, was quoted as saying by the Financial Times.
Trump allowed himself to be provoked by Harris during the televised debate, appeared irritated at times and eventually went on the defensive, German newspaper Zeit commented, noting that according to Fox News, Harris was the winner of the debate. On the other hand, Trump continues to claim that he won, the publication points out.