Trump rejects 'high risk' second debate offer after Kamala's slam dunk | Nathaniel Rakich

“If you are the underdog, you want something to shake up the race, and the fact that there isn’t an event on the calendar is probably bad for Trump.”
The Trump campaign looks like it has “rejected” the offer of a second US election debate, says senior elections analyst Nathaniel Rakich.
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[@chocolab3014]

What do you mean we can get his message out in other ways? What is this message except for all the lies

[@RawsonHirschel]

When all you have in nine years is concepts of healthcare…you not only lost the debate, you are also incompetent.

[@georgeblackwell2306]

Kamala would not even have to show up… give Trump the questions and answers in advance and let him talk…

[@Cats-z1c1w]

Why did the chicken cross the road? To escape a debate.

[@michaelleclair8278]

And that chicken would be Harris.

[@RobotechLegos]

As an American I must apologize to our world neighbors. We have a severe trailer trash infestation problem. Had one in the 1800s. Working on it. Might take us a while…

[@deirdreosullivan4429]

Hurry up please. Go into turbo drive. The whole world, apart from dictators, are absolutely sick of his rhetoric, actions, verbal diarrhoea! In short, everything about him and his uneducated Maga nuts and his supposedly intelligent, spineless sycophants in government!

[@jim2376]

Orange gasbag: "I won the election. I won the debate. I won the Nobel Prize. I won the lottery. I won freedom for cats and dogs in Springfield."

[@deborahboggs6040]

mentally unstable ,old and surely not presidentalial material

[@Dstrbrdgrnd]

👍👍👍👍

[@gregorybiestek3431]

@@Dstrbrdgrnd If you think what Trump says is bad, you should check out what has been said by his buddy the Republican candidate to be governor of North Carolina- Mark Robinson.

[@deirdreosullivan4429]

He’s won the worst president in the past, present and future. There will be no-one that comes close! Can I offer an addition to the school curriculum … how to recognise that you’re being invited into a cult or in fact that you are already there!

[@rooseveltsbones]

Someone close to him needs to say “Sir….you are toast.”

[@westendwatch]

He's not tho: consistently 46 47 48% . The antipathy towards current centre left " liberalism" is solid.

[@skepticsinister]

@@westendwatch👌okay orban putin

[@richardmarsden5610.]

Donny Sippy Cup is going to love sharing a prison cell with R Kelly and P Diddy.. 😂😂😂

[@jimsouthlondon7061]

And Hunter Biden

[@deborahboggs6040]

wont ever happen or he would hd been years ago?????

[@richardmarsden5610.]

@@deborahboggs6040 Diddy and Kelly are going to Spit-Roast Trump. 😂😂😂

[@Dstrbrdgrnd]

@@jimsouthlondon7061what does Hunter Biden have to do with anything?

[@Lordismyshepered]

😂😂​@@richardmarsden5610.

[@danmayberry1185]

If you don't trust your candidate to debate effectively on television, that doesn't say much for his ability to represent his country.

[@jimsouthlondon7061]

Trump don’t hate Jews

[@dpelpal]

Yes!☺

[@danmayberry1185]

@derloopkat Must be a relief to look back on a lifetime of failure, and know that it was all due to your teachers, coaches, wives, bosses, accountants, lawyers, the media...

[@moneymay6324]

​@derloopkatwhy a man is afraid to debate against a woman??? 😅

[@deborahboggs6040]

MORAL CHARACTER should be a very important part of the candidate you choose s commander in chief

[@VoiceofSarawak]

Chicken

[@Jayonpoint-t6v]

Trump is all about himself. No policies, only concepts!

[@Emblazed123]

He built his dream walls though right? what exactly has Kamala/Biden done during this administration? nothing really significant.... if you want a nuclear war thats another reason for you to vote Kamala

[@TanyaOsterman-hw9wv]

Harris should offer to debate on any network, under any circumstances. Let him have an earpiece (since he's so obsessed with ears). He'd still lose BIGLY!

[@Seeingisntbelieving]

I think yall don’t understand what winning is in a debate. He shifted 6 out of 10 independents- she shifted 3 out of 10-the best she can do is move that 1 and it still isn’t enough. She doesn’t need to make her base vote for her, you are voting for her. She lost and this is a TKO. DJT has won this race fair and square😊.

[@OktoberSnoopy18NaLa22]

Go away Kamala

[@simonm635]

why would anyone vote for Trump

[@RobotechLegos]

As an American I ask my self that question every day. There are two americas: the good guys and the bad guys.

[@keepwildinthewild]

People who underwent a lobotomy would.

[@deborahboggs6040]

some are and iwouldnt be shocked if he wins- to much corruption!

[@seanmurphy1614]

Lobotomy would imply there's a brain in there somewhere. I don't think so 😂.​@@keepwildinthewild

[@timthetiny7538]

​@RobotechLegos and you're the latter

[@deborahboggs6040]

AWWW! He cant take the HEAT! Such a Weasel!

[@sailor583]

He is still hurting, give the man a chance to recover.

[@adamjay8609]

😂

[@Tryhardclan-ld7iq]

No , F Trump, he really should be in prison,

[@doughughes5732]

😂😂😂

[@MrWhitman7]

Just go away, Trump. Please..

[@paulpaisley5291]

Their eating the dogs, their eating the cats. 😂😂😂😂.

[@bryandimery6509]

"Theyre" of course this is lost on ppl like you.

[@kittyhazes5741]

@bryandimery - Correction, it’s “They’re not theyre” 😂😹

[@bryandimery6509]

@kittyhazes5741 Correction: you didnt need a comma. Trash a**

[@DeBanked]

Rekt 😅🤡

[@KipIngram]

Well, call it "being scared" or "being strategic" as you see fit, but yeah. The first one hurt him, and he doesn't want to get hurt more. It doesn't buy him anything.

[@verminthug65]

The electoral college has got to go. It has given us two presidents (in my lifetime) who were both disastrous for America. MAJORITY RULE!

[@joeyjerker1]

Yes California and New York should become their own countries and enter the third world and leave america as it is

[@Seeingisntbelieving]

So you think California and New York should choose our president? 😂😂😂 you’re cuckoo!

[@JanMcIntosh-c5y]

Why on your bookshelf do you have 2 boxes of Kraft Mac n Cheese?

[@markus1963nl]

Haha, just saw the same Jan!

[@dpelpal]

These are special macaroni and cheese, labeled as republican or democrat. Very collectable in USA

[@rockbutcher]

@@dpelpal For a 'Russian living in Samara' you have an expansive knowledge of life in the US.

[@robbiekop7]

If you don't have 2 boxes of Kraft Mac & Cheese in your House 🏡... You ain't *Black*

[@michaelleclair8278]

Trump is not scared to debate. It's too late to debate considering states are started to vote by mail. Plus if they did debate it should be Trump's decision who hosts the debate not Harris's decision.

[@SuzyMoore-ob3pp]

Trump crushed harry you obviously only watched bbc soundbites

[@potsy9973]

Kamala had Trump look like a true fool when she pummeled him at debate 1

[@dpelpal]

USA economy is so good right now, and gas price so low, Trump has no chance

[@RobotechLegos]

@@dpelpalnever underestimate the idiocy gullibility and delusion of maga and the maga adjacent.

[@kittyhazes5741]

💙💙💙💙

[@robbiekop7]

Are you an American today living in Miami Florida 🌞🍹🌴🌊🏄

[@RobotechLegos]

@@robbiekop7 surfing in Florida!???? lol

[@patmaguire2356]

I'm sure she'll do well in the postal votes ?

[@Dstrbrdgrnd]

Postal votes? What does that mean?

[@gregorybiestek3431]

@@Dstrbrdgrnd Approximately 35% of all people in the USA do not go to a polling place to vote, but rather are part of a program where they get their ballot a couple of weeks before, fill it out, and then mail it back through the USA postal service - hence the postal votes.

[@patmaguire2356]

@gregorybiestek3431 I think they all know what I was getting at but thank-you for explaining it to the idiots

[@patmaguire2356]

@@gregorybiestek3431 Democrats cheat 😂😂

[@daveg6497]

Noting your headline, Kamala rejected a high risk second (3rd for Trump) debate moderated by Fox, PBS or other media organisations not firmly in the Democratic camp. Wouldn't it be reasonable if it were a similar model in the UK, that a PM debate hosted by the Guardian, then the Times, that it would be fair for the Telegraph to host a 3rd debate?

[@nicholasmaude6906]

Let's hope that Trump changes his mind over a second debate so that Harris can mop the floor with him. On another note it is well past time the US passed a constitutional amendment to eliminate the electoral college.

[@markus1963nl]

Mac & Cheese on his bookshelf? Pollsters are an odd bunch…

[@dpelpal]

Those are collectibles, marketed in 2016 as "republican" or "democrat" macaroni and cheese. Worth a lot of moneys

[@rockbutcher]

@@dpelpal LOL ok 'Samara.'

[@doughughes5732]

He's a big chicken.

[@janicafam2422]

Thank you for continuously using the tax payers’ money to support the illegal immigrants. Kindly provide them with shelters, food, jobs and greencards for the election. They are happily give birth here in US. I believe Kamala would be the most respectful illegal immigrants president too. Life is like a box of chocolates, you never know what you will get in return. May your kindness bring peaceful and happiness to all the current and future American.🤞

[@cjinasia9266]

If the numbers keep going the way they have been, he will be begging for a debate in front of Rachel Maddow in a few weeks.

[@Seeingisntbelieving]

I don’t think so.

[@delphinazizumbo8674]

it's ALWAYS about a handful of swing states for FORTY YEARS it's been like that

[@DeepVerma728]

Debate her for what? She doesn't answer questions.

[@kierenmoore3236]

Donnie is way too scared to debate again, lol. Trump’s hand (to scale):- ✋

[@OktoberSnoopy18NaLa22]

Trump 2024

[@MarkC-j1y]

His bone spurs have flared up again!

[@andrewmakin8151]

the electoral college is like the ‘rules based international order’. fair and democratic packaging around asymmetrically concentrated power that favours the rule-makers.

[@Jedipimp]

Trump is done and pathetic Russia waits for a train wreck😂😂😂

[@Vaushgg]

Orange chicken!

[@ArchDudeify]

Do those with an electoral college system have only themselves to blame 🤔

[@joeyjerker1]

The electoral college exists to prevent (currently CA,and NY) from making decisions for the other 48 states. If they need that much power the rest of america be fine if they became their own countries.

[@roberw1912]

The reason Harris is more keen on another debate than Trump, is Trump's vote is unusually under reported in polling and if the polls are level it probably means Trump is leading by 5 points. Trump has nothing to gain from a debate unless it's held by Fox. I think a debate would be good, it might also be nice to see a moderator go at the claims of Good People on both sides quote both Harris and Biden use which was a distortion of what was said.

[@johncraig86]

Nebraska may not be winners take all due to foolishness.

[@georgeryanjr.776]

Trump 2024 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸

[@kierenmoore3236]

lol

[@georgeryanjr.776]

@@kierenmoore3236 Trump 2024 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸

[@SeBilu-bd9dj]

He likes casino technologies for st/d f/s work everywhere for him. Now only on Gtranslators we have about three million translations from abroad in support of the billionaire's casino in the comments daily. But І just still wonder, what is better or laugh near the iron cash register or to cry at the golden doors of the casino with nothing ?

[@EddieMulchy]

Let Trump pick the Moderators, instead of having the biased MSM pick the Moderators, and Trump will show up anywhere, any time. The MSM have a long standing track record of bias against Trump.

[@evaluateanalysis7974]

"bias against Trump" Translation to normal English: picking him up on some of his lies.

[@EddieMulchy]

@@evaluateanalysis7974 Peddle your BS somewhere else. At the debate, Harris told 21 transparent LIES, which ABC moderators (who had reported on the subjects of those lies) KNEW were lies...but they did ZERO fact-checking of Harris's lies. If you would like to know of those lies in details, it's on the Internet. Even an 8 year old can Google that well, so you should have no problem. I kid...you obviously couldn't care less about the facts, or you'd already know the facts.

[@EddieMulchy]

@@evaluateanalysis7974 ...so if you have any answer about Harris's lies, I'll have to ask you to state at least five of those lies, before we discuss further...to prove you actually looked at Harris's lies.

[@evaluateanalysis7974]

@@EddieMulchyHaHa that's another version of "Do your research." Where you ask someone with an opposing view to prove you are right. Laughable.

[@mikes5637]

​@@EddieMulchy you list five of her lies.

[@tatiannaannunaki2027]

….more like, why kick a dog when it’s down…Kamala sinks herself with her own words…seen her on Oprah yet? Cringe!

[@bolajiadedamola7971]

We voting blue 💙💙💙💙💙

[@stephenglover1818]

a vote for high inflation, high crime, high illegal border crossing and endless wars. Not much joy in that

[@edwardcumpstey9061]

*We're

[@dpelpal]

​@@stephenglover1818Peoples line up at USA border to get in. They line up at border here in Russia to get out😢

[@bolajiadedamola7971]

@@edwardcumpstey9061 I used American English. Stop disgracing yourself

[@bolajiadedamola7971]

@@stephenglover1818 that’s untrue

[@mohansega9812]

❤PRESIDENT MR. TRUMP❤ USA 2024, NEVER SCARED BECAUSE MR. TRUMP NOT LIKE WAST TIME AND TALK KAMALA HARRIS😢😢

[@Dstrbrdgrnd]

Did your Mommy help you write that?🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@corysimmons455]

I'm not voting for kamala Harris

[@MikeTheMan-x9u]

The clown is going down.

[@jimsouthlondon7061]

Trump don’t hate Jews

[@dannymoorhouse5718]

Or the headline could've been kamala rejects debate on fox news because she wants the softball questions from cnn

[@glendabarrett9060]

Fox is not a news channel. They said so in the case they settled for nearly a billion dollars. In fact I believe they said people who believed what they said on air are "just not too smart"...or some such.

[@loucaribou7765]

The anti-trump content on here is so cringe. I like the Ukrainian content tho

[@adventuresofadingbat691]

❤ trump. you lot are delusional

[@stewartdickinson8242]

Why won’t she do one on Fox…….because she will get found out.

[@mehoshcommercialphotograph1877]

Because FOX is not a news station. It's an entertainment station that spews outright lies and misinformation for ratings from gullible people.

[@Dstrbrdgrnd]

Why would she go on an entertainment network?

[@bryandimery6509]

Not hard to win a debate when youre given the questions beforehand and the moderators only fact check opponents.

[@kittyhazes5741]

Harris did not answer the 1st question & Trump answered next to none of them. It ridiculous to say Trump didn’t know what the questions might be asked, considering his debate experience. He just didn’t bother to prepare because he’d convinced himself & everybody around him that she was a dumb woman he could intimidate.

[@kierenmoore3236]

You don’t notice someone getting fact-checked when they’re not lying through their teeth …

[@bryandimery6509]

@kierenmoore3236 the idea that either of them is honest shows you are either too young or unintelligent.

[@jimsouthlondon7061]

Why does Rupert Murdock fear Donald Trump ?

[@stantonfriedman]

He's another Joe Biden at this point

[@anselmdanker9519]

no need to wrestle with Kemala Harris tag team , just let Kemala Harris word salad her way to the election 😂

[@Mark13091961]

I’m a neutral from outside the US and that’s the exact opposite to what the non US world sees

[@Dstrbrdgrnd]

Hey Ansley, you’d better practice saying Madam President Kamala Harris🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸

[@SusanPhillips-g2o]

Harris likes yellow school buses and green lawns lol. She is so done ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤

[@fusionfan6883]

Really, please explain in detail why???

[@dpelpal]

@@fusionfan6883 It's a joke. OP means the opposite.

[@fusionfan6883]

@@dpelpal DOH, of course now I see it, clearly my brain wasn’t engaged at the time, thanks for clarifying😵‍💫😀👍🏻

[@adenwellsmith6908]

When are you going to show the crowds in front of Kamala? When are you going to send in a film crew to video the event so the faces can be compared against the videos Kamala puts out?

[@fusionfan6883]

Really, or maybe they have been teleported in by space lasers, get real!

[@WeeWeeJumbo]

maga’s paranoid delusions were funny years ago but now they’re just disturbing. please return to Earth. your loved ones miss you

[@dpelpal]

Regarding consumption of cat and dog. I am Russian, in 1990s years it was a common to consume pet in my Russia. Still there are Щенок Пьероги ("puppy dumplings") and many soup with feline

[@dpelpal]

@peonie8900 I will not eat this but many in my Russia do

[@adamjay8609]

Dog soup is dream

[@dpelpal]

@@adamjay8609 Oh u have tried? U are Russian as well?☺

[@mikes5637]

Puppy dumplings sounds delicious and I hate myself

[@dpelpal]

​@@mikes5637 You come to Russia you try them☺

[@darrenhenderson6921]

Harris is way down in the Polls so is desperate some as much exposure as possible

[@simonethewolf323]

I got to admit. This has to be a Russian misinformation job. Where in Russia is this from? Whats the going rate. I am like a 100% sure the MAGA when looking at their feeds are not going to select Times Radio. They love their own echo chamber. So I am confident this is messaging from Russia.

[@Dstrbrdgrnd]

Hey Darren, what polls are you watching? Harris is ahead by 5 points in most polls nationwide.

[@darrenhenderson6921]

@@Dstrbrdgrnd well according to ABC he’s up 1% overall and considering he was down 8% when he won is a big deal, conservatives are a silent majority

[@darrenhenderson6921]

@@simonethewolf323 you boys are obsessed with Russia aren’t you? I’m sure your straight out CNN, with your mad brand of social reform radicalism

[@buckmull]

TRUMP IS NOT SCARED OF HARRIS , HE IS SMART ABOUT IT BECAUSE IF HE DON'T HAVE THE DEBATE THE LESS VOTES HARRIS WILL GET.❤❤❤❤❤

[@AdeToz]

So little testosterone

[@WeeWeeJumbo]

how long you had that problem?

[@ChristmasKathy]

Trump2024!!!!!🎉❤

[@Leo-vc6rx]

@ChristmasKathy I too support Trump 20-24 AND MORE!!! select READ MIRE below 20 in Attica NY State Prison, 20 in Florence ADX Federal Prison, 4 in GA State Prison, AND MORE!!!

[@patmaguire2356]

Are you joking that debate was so obviously fixed

[@porecemusnox8805]

The US and the world saw one candidate who was simply better prepared than the other. This is and always has been about looks.

[@evaluateanalysis7974]

"fixed" How can you fix a debate where each candidate can say what they wish????

[@moneymay6324]

How can you fixed a debate??? 😅😅😅😅

[@markabrahams2191]

@@evaluateanalysis7974 You only watch pro democrat/harris news like this . If you were more informed you would know that there is an affidavit , punishable by prosecution if not a true statement , signed by an ABC employee , stating that the questions were given to harris before the debate . That is how it was fixed

[@patmaguire2356]

When the owner of the company is your best friend, and they only biased questions went to him not her, she wasn't fact checked on anything I'd Watch it again if I was you

[@MrSimpleton28]

She's a liar and a bad one at that. Nothing to debate.

[@vimmentors6747]

I'm confused. So Harris is willing to debate on Fox or another media outlet not biased in her favor? No? Ok then. Why no mention of the debate and appearance offers being declined by her and her running mate? You aren't biased, are you?

[@mjeffn2]

Way to bury the lead until 8:20.