Trump says there won't be a third presidential debate

[LetMyPeopleVote]

Source: CNN

Former President Donald Trump announced Thursday that there would not be a third presidential debate.

“KAMALA SHOULD FOCUS ON WHAT SHE SHOULD HAVE DONE DURING THE LAST ALMOST FOUR YEAR PERIOD. THERE WILL BE NO THIRD DEBATE!” Trump posted on Truth Social.

Trump debated President Joe Biden in June and Vice President Kamala Harris earlier this week.

Harris’ campaign had called for another debate after the vice president and Trump faced off at ABC’s presidential debate on Tuesday.

This is a breaking story and will be updated.

Read more: https://www.cnn.com/2024/09/12/politics/donald-trump-no-third-debate

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[GreenWave]

1. Loser!

[forgotmylogin]

57. Probably the smartest decision Donold has ever made. n/t

[getagrip_already]

2. Color me shocked.....

Coward.

[Traildogbob]

3. Somebody ask that idiot

To list the policies Pence passed in his 4 years in office.

[evolves]

7. He would just say,

"Pence? Never heard of the guy."

[Traildogbob]

12. Yep,

He was the Diet Coke retriever, and the ketchup cleaner.

[Evolve Dammit]

54. Oh the guy who didn't like me very much, "didn't have the courage" and should have been hanged? That guy?

[SammyWinstonJack]

68. Exactly. Want to hear his answer on that.

[PSPS]

4. trump's closet is as varied as Stan Smith's.

[OAITW r.2.0]

31. Well, I've been wearing Stan Smith sneakers for almost 50 years.

I'll probably get cremated with them on.

[Picaro]

5. This is good

There’s no upside to another debate for Vice President Harris.

Plus this tells the world once again that Trump is a coward.

[OnDoutside]

6. Good. It would be a no win for Kamala, although

She would dump his ass again.

[kimbutgar]

8. Cluck cluck says the orange maniac!

[Trueblue1968]

60. He is afraid of a girl !!!!! Scaredy cat !!! What a whiner.

[tulipsandroses]

9. He knows she would mop the floor with him again

Despite his bravado, he knows he lost. He knows people are laughing at him

[Traildogbob]

15. That rag on his head

Makes a great mop.

[ZonkerHarris]

10. a hit dog is howling

[ArkansasDemocrat1]

48. As we say here

[gordianot]

11. Mr.Anytime Anywhere has a sad.

Another debate would be entertains but how could he improve on his last debate without having a coronary?

[SupportSanity]

13. She really won't have time to debate him again. Too busy pulling clips from tha debate Trump lost into new commercials

[jmowreader]

14. How much you want to bet it was his handlers who really decided that?

First debate: Biden presents as tired senior citizen, Trump presents as raving lunatic.

Second debate: Harris presents as dynamic, poised middle aged woman, Trump presents as nearly-homicidal maniac.

Third debate: Harris brings a platoon of infantrymen from the 101st Airborne Division with her to protect her from Trump.

"Madam Vice President, why did you bring fifty people armed with M-4 rifles and M-240 machine guns with you tonight?"
"You saw him last time, right? You can't be too careful when dealing with crazy people."

[TheRickles]

16. She should, and probably will, issue a challenge - one that's framed as a test of courage vs. cowardice.

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Knowing he won't agree, but it gives her extra leverage to push more of his insecurity buttons.

[LetMyPeopleVote]

17. Kamala Harris believe we owe it to the voters to have another debate.

Link to tweet

[BumRushDaShow]

18. LOL because he even threw Faux under the bus

Trump Trashes Fox Host for Saying Ex-President ‘Decisively Lost’ Debate: ‘I Actually Prefer the Losers at CNN and MSDNC!’

[kansasobama]

19. Thank God- Good decision

Now let Harris work with her campaign rallies and crowds and let Trump rally his crazies. I bet media will paint the second debate as a Trump comeback. Do we have faith in the MSM?

Let the open wounds from the debate remain for Trump and with the MSM not have a chance to say - "Oh, look, how much better Trump is now. It is a dead heat."

[robertpaulsen]

20. I expected nothing less from Benito Bonespurs. Thanks for showing us your real form.

[Dave Bowman]

21. Lol!

[wishstar]

22. She just said in her Charlotte rally that she wants a 2nd debate

because the issues are so important. But it'll be great if we don't have to be subjected to all his lies and bullshit again and she can just concentrate on her message getting out without giving him any more air time than he already gets.

[AZSkiffyGeek]

35. I say let him get onstage and spew about Haitian dog eaters and post-birth abortions

It only helps Harris.

[LetMyPeopleVote]

23. Despite Harris' challenge, Trump vows no more 2024 debates

Bowing out of additional debates against Kamala Harris makes Donald Trump appear pitiful and scared. He's doing it anyway.

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Bowing out of additional debates against Kamala Harris makes Trump appear pitiful and scared, following an embarrassing showing on Tuesday night.

He's doing it anyway.

https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/maddowblog/harris-challenge-trump-vows-no-2024-debates-rcna170909

So, what’s Trump’s actual plan? A new piece published to his social media platform offers at least some clarity about the Republican’s plans. Reuters reported:

Republican Donald Trump said on Thursday he would not participate in another presidential debate against his Democratic rival Kamala Harris ahead of the Nov. 5 election, as several polls showed that she beat him. “THERE WILL BE NO THIRD DEBATE!” the former president wrote on social media site Truth Social, after participating in a debate against President Joe Biden in June and Vice President Harris earlier this week.

In other words, as far as Trump is concerned, the presidential debate process for the 2024 cycle has run its course. Presumably, an upcoming vice presidential debate is still on track, though given recent events, it’s difficult to say with certainty.

Barring a dramatic change of course, this will be the first year in the modern era in which the major-party presidential nominees only met for one televised debate. (That said, there were no presidential debates at all in 1964, 1968, or 1972.).....

Stepping back, it’s certainly been a rollercoaster ride. For months, the GOP candidate was so excited about the possibility of presidential debates that he routinely declared, “ANYTIME, ANYWHERE, ANYPLACE.” Trump also suggested he’d like to see 10 debates, rather than the usual three.

Then President Joe Biden ended his re-election campaign, at which point Trump became noticeably less eager to get on the stage.

This week, Harris dominated the Republican nominee, leaving him embarrassed, while leaving his party hoping he’d be able to avoid further embarrassment.

It’s against this backdrop that Trump is bowing out of additional debates, indifferent to how pitiful and scared it makes him appear.

[Evolve Dammit]

56. In the photo; is his tie caught in his fly?? Looks "tight" or pulled from below. Zip up gone bad perhaps?

[C0RI0LANUS]

24. Trump: "Why don't you go back to the White House" meant "Why don't you go back to where you came from."

[FakeNoose]

25. Of course he won't debate her ... he's a loser

Do any of us care?

Not in the slightest.

[sheshe2]

26. Crowds should start a chant...

♩♪♩♬ ♬♩♪♩
Trump's afraid of a girl.
Trump's afraid of a girl.
She made mad.
And he got sad.
Knowing he'd been had.

[OAITW r.2.0]

27. You claim you trounced her, Don....so why not trounce her again?

I think everyone knows, one debate humiliation is all your ego can handle.

[Freddie]

28. Can't wait to see Tim make an ass out of Couch Boy

Oct. 1.

[polichick]

29. Thank goodness - we won't have to watch his ugliness again!

[Midnight Writer]

30. Even TFG can learn a lesson. Once you've stuck your dick in a blender, you don't want to do it again.

[Blue Owl]

32. How'd that taste, tRump -- getting your ass kicked by a strong woman?

I think we know the answer.....

[Martin68]

33. It was a lose-lose proposition for Trump. Debate Kamala again and get his orange ass kicked, or

run away with his tail between his legs. You can bet Harris will remind us every chance she gets what a coward Trump is when faced with an intelligent woman in a fair debate.

[twodogsbarking]

34. Kamala is the first person to get free rent from Trump; in his brain.

[NH Ethylene]

42. What all those GOP primary candidates in 2016 would have done to spank him like Kamala did.

It didn't seem like it was even possible to arrest Trump's forward motion back then. Nobody knew how to debate him.

[onetexan]

36. chicken shit

[hadEnuf]

37. Crawl away

you fucking coward.

Maybe dress up as a couch for Halloween and let J.D have a crack at you.

[orangecrush]

38. FUCK OFF RUMP

YOU HAD YOUR ASS HANDED TO YOU IN FRONT OF YOUR NUTCASE FOLLOWERS BY A WOMAN!!!

[DinahMoeHum]

39. I've said it before, I'll say it again. . .

Trump is the schmuck who buys a trophy in a pawnshop, polishes it up, then preens around and brags that he's a champion.

However, the reflection on the brass of that trophy still shows the face of a L-O-S-E-R.

[Hekate]

40. Now we know why the Chicken crossed the road..

He was running away from Kamala Harris!

Bok bok bok bawk

[ffr]

41. He's steamy still. Enjoy.

Hot out of Kamala's oven.

[LW1977]

43. Brave Sir Donald ran away

Brave Sir Donald ran away.
Bravely ran away away.
When danger reared it's ugly head,
He bravely turned his tail and fled.
Yes, brave Sir Donald turned about
And gallantly he chickened out.
Swiftly taking to his feet,
He beat a very brave retreat.
Bravest of the brave, Sir Donald!

[GAJMac]

44. Coward!

Just go away, you weird, senile bastard.

[gopiscrap]

45. he's nothing but an orange chickenshit

[Amaryllis]

46. Good. It's a better use of her time to keep dooing rallys in swing states.

[PortTack]

47. "Kamala should focus on she should have done?" Like make sure you were already convicted and in jail!

[twodogsbarking]

49. I would rather listen to a leaf blower.

And I really hate them.

[LetMyPeopleVote]

50. This made me smile

[OAITW r.2.0]

51. I am confused.

Trump said he clearly beat Harris in the debate. Why not beat her again?

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

52. Way to wimp out Donny

[Emile]

53. Chicken Trump picture.

[Clouds Passing]

55. L.....

[ailsagirl]

58. CHICKEN!!

[Demobrat]

59. Great. She can taunt him and poke him

in her own classy way, while her surrogates do it with the gloves off. Much more effective to taunt him for six weeks than one night.

[rpannier]

61. I heard the District Attorney of the city they chose said they couldn't hold it there

The beat down she administered to il douche likely qualified as Assault.

[cstanleytech]

62. Bawk, Bawk, Bawk

[musclecar6]

63. Finally

Someone showed up who knocked this bully right on his ass ( metaphorically of course). The best part was she was a 5 foot 4 woman. To put insult to injury, since he’s a well-known racist, she was a black woman. Hallefuckinglujah.

[Scrivener7]

64. Dear CNN: once again you're sanewashing the vile thing. I have no difficulty

writing the headline you would have chosen if this had been Joe because we saw similar headlines so many times: "Joe backs out of future debates after weak showing." Then there would have been a subhead about how everyone and her brother thinks Joe should drop out for the good of the country.

For the vile thing, you do a careful, neutral headline: "Trump says he won't participate in another presidential debate." Then you give air to his ridiculous complaints against Kamala, and finally acknowledge the blatant fact that she won (which I suppose we should be grateful for.)

At this point, there is no doubt CNN knows they are showing bias towards him, and there is no escaping the fact they are doing it on purpose.

[lark]

65. Bawk, bawk, bawk goes the old orange chicken.

Thank you for not making America more stupid with your insane word spew and anti-Ameria hate.

[republianmushroom]

66. The whooping the convicted felon received in the debate

is going to take a lot longer to heal, than his ear did. And a girl did it to him. No one has tore him a new one like that since his dad died. Totally shocked him.

[Martin68]

67. It sounds like Dump is feeling remorse for not focusing on Harris instead of his own pet conspiracy theories.

Only one way to cure that feeling of depression, Donald: agree to another debate!

[LetMyPeopleVote]

69. TFG is also mad at Fox

Last month, Donald Trump wanted a Fox News debate hosted by Bret Baier and Martha MacCallum. Now, evidently, they’re not quite partisan enough for him.

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https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/maddowblog/trump-fox-hosts-are-no-longer-good-enough-possible-second-debate-rcna170874

During the same on-air appearance, Fox’s Steve Doocy raised the prospect of a debate moderated by his colleagues Bret Baier and Martha MacCallum. As a New York Times report noted, Trump didn’t exactly endorse the idea.

‘Well, I wouldn’t want to have Martha and Bret; I would love to have somebody else other than Martha and Bret,’ Mr. Trump said, before ticking off his preferred alternatives, including the Fox pundits Sean Hannity and Jesse Watters. ‘Let’s give other people a shot,’ he said.”

The Republican added that, as far as he was concerned, Baier and MacCallum weren’t “good” during Fox’s post-debate coverage, which apparently means they’ve fallen out of favor.

Fox’s Brian Kilmeade defended the Fox anchors and assured Trump that Baier and MacCallum would be “extremely fair.” That apparently didn’t prove persuasive — because fairness almost certainly isn’t what the former president is looking for.

In case anyone’s forgotten, when Trump tried in August to get out of the ABC event, he published an online item specifically saying he wanted a Fox News debate, adding, “The Moderators of the Debate will be Bret Baier and Martha MacCallum.”

That, of course, was before the anchors failed to pretend he fared well on Tuesday night.

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

70. Chickening out Diaper Don?

[Cha]

71. Up to you, Chicken SHIT! Pluck Pluck pluck... lol

[twodogsbarking]

72. Was it really even a debate? I mean; really.

[ailsagirl]

73. CHICKEN!!!! Lol

[SupportSanity]

74. Surprise! Surprise! Surpise!

[Aussie105]

75. Trump has gone stale. Weirdly stale in fact.

Kamala brings fresh energy to US politics.

No need for another debate, Trump has nothing new to say.
He hasn't, for quite a long time now.

Even the most rusted on GOP voters must be starting to notice by now.

[Palpatine]

76. "Focus on what she should have done"?!

You do understand, don't you, Donald, that there's not much a VP CAN do?! What did Pence do in 4 years, that even future historians specializing in this period will remember?!

[LudwigPastorius]

77. What a profile in pusillanimity.

[hamsterjill]

78. Pock! Pock!! Pock!!!

He is so transparent and he is such a wimp. I love that she got to him!!!

[Montauk6]

79. The contrast is startling!

DU (and other objectively rational people): COWARD!!!
MAGA Cultists: YEAH!!! DON'T LET THAT COMMIE PUSH YOU AROUND, MESSIAH!!!!!

[RedArkGuy]

80. If he goes down in the polls by seven or ten

. . . he'll be begging for another debate.

[LetMyPeopleVote]

81. Trump still struggling to explain his poor debate performance

Donald Trump could stop talking about his debate loss against Kamala Harris. He prefers to instead push ridiculous conspiracy theories about the event.

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https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/maddowblog/trump-still-struggling-explain-poor-debate-performance-rcna171291

When Donald Trump lost a debate last week, he responded in a more Trumpian way. The New York Times reported on the Republican candidate’s rally in Las Vegas late last week.

Over the course of an hour and 20 minutes, Mr. Trump ranted about the moderators of Tuesday’s debate. ... And even as Mr. Trump continued to insist that he had been victorious in the debate — though some of his allies have acknowledged he had a rough outing — he accused Ms. Harris of wearing an earpiece in their matchup, a baseless claim that has proliferated on right-wing social media. And he said that Ms. Harris had obtained the questions in advance, an assertion for which there has been no proof.

This was, incidentally, a speech in which the GOP nominee was supposed to talk about the economy.....

Instead, the Republican told his followers that he’d “heard” — from whom, he did not say — that Kamala Harris received the questions in advance (she did not) and wore an earpiece that allowed her to cheat (which is utterly false).

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The Washington Post’s Dan Balz — who hardly has a reputation for being a bomb-throwing ideologue — explained in a notable analysis, “Former president Donald Trump has long inhabited a bizarre world of his own creation. He rewrites history — or makes it up entirely — to aggrandize himself, denigrate others and spread the basest of lies. It keeps getting worse. Since Tuesday’s debate with Vice President Kamala Harris, he’s spiraled ever deeper into conspiracy theories, falsehoods and grievances.”

Despite all of this, NBC News reported that the Republican nominee left open the possibility of another debate with Harris, saying it might happen if he were in “the right mood.” Trump said that the day after issuing a written statement that said, in no uncertain terms, “THERE WILL BE NO THIRD DEBATE!”

So, what’s likely to happen next? Watch this space.