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Vice President Kamala Harris has accepted a CNN invitation to a statesmanlike statement connected 23 October, conscionable days earlier the November election.
It is improbable that her rival Donald Trump volition judge the invitation, though past week helium suggested helium would beryllium unfastened to the possibility.
The 2 faced disconnected successful a erstwhile statement successful Philadelphia connected 10 September.
The CNN statement successful October would travel the aforesaid format arsenic a June statement betwixt Trump and President Joe Biden, the then-Democratic candidate.
In a connection connected Saturday, Harris-Walz run seat Jen O'Malley Dillon said that Americans "deserve different opportunity" to spot Harris and Trump statement earlier the November election.
"It would beryllium unprecedented successful modern past for determination to conscionable beryllium 1 wide predetermination debate," she added. "Debates connection a unsocial accidental for voters to spot the candidates broadside by broadside and instrumentality banal of their competing visions for America."
On X, formerly Twitter, Harris said that she "gladly" accepts the statement and hopes Trump volition besides instrumentality part.
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After the 10 September debate, Trump had said determination would beryllium nary further debates.
When contacted by the BBC, the Trump run referred to a 12 September societal media station successful which the erstwhile president claimed triumph successful the past statement and said determination "will beryllium not beryllium a 3rd debate".
Last week, however, Trump suggested helium mightiness beryllium unfastened to a imaginable rematch.
"Maybe if I got successful the close mood," helium told reporters successful California.
Harris holds a flimsy pb implicit Trump successful nationalist polling averages.
Snap polls released instantly aft the 10 September statement recovered that astir viewers thought Harris had been the amended performer.
Since then, a bulk of nationalist polls suggest that Harris has made tiny gains with voters.
The 2 candidates exchanged swipes and barbs astatine the erstwhile debate, with Trump calling Harris a "radical near liberal" and a Marxist who was destroying America.
Harris, for her part, goaded Trump, belittled the size of his rally crowds and quoted his Republican detractors.
CBS, the BBC's quality spouse successful the US, has besides invited some statesmanlike candidates to enactment successful an October statement successful Arizona.
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