2024-08-27 21:03:33
2:51 p.m.: US presidential candidate Donald Trump has questioned his planned television debate with opponent Kamala Harris on September 10. In a message on his online platform Truth Social on Sunday evening (local time), the Republican accused the broadcaster ABC News, where the debate is to take place, of being biased against him. He asked the question: “Why would I do a debate against Kamala Harris on this network?”.
Trump calls the station “ABC Fake News”. He is angry about the station’s reporting on Sunday, in which a reporter conducted a “ridiculous and biased interview” with Republican Senator Tom Cotton. He calls the political experts who appeared on the station a “so-called discussion group of Trump haters”.
Trump did not cancel the televised debate, but he said the broadcaster had “many questions to answer.”
6.12 am: The US Republican vice presidential candidate, JD Vance, sees no reason to take back his statement about “childless cat women”. “I regret a lot of things, (…), but making a joke three years ago is not in the top ten on my list,” said Vance in an interview with the US broadcaster NBC News when asked whether he wished he had never made that comment. “Of course I regret that a lot of people took it the wrong way,” Vance continued. But he will continue to make “jokes” and phrase things “sarcastically” in the future. With his statement at the time, he made it clear that the USA had become too hostile to families, said the 40-year-old.