Donald Trump is refusing to face off with Kamala Harris again after his disastrous performance in Tuesday’s debate.
“THERE WILL BE NO THIRD DEBATE!!” he wrote in a post on Truth Social Thursday.
Harris’ campaign chairman, David Plouffe, responded by taunting Trump as “chicken.”
“At long last we discover his spirit animal. The Chicken,” he wrote. “Let’s see if chicken man excises Hannibal Lecter out of his speech tonight. If he does, demonstrates he was humiliated on that point on Tuesday night. If he doesn’t, well, that would be awesome. Classic win, win.”
Trump told supporters at a rally in Tucson, Arizona, Thursday afternoon that two debates is enough—one against Joe Biden, the other against Harris. “And because they were successful, there will be no third debate,” he said, prompting cheers.
“It’s too late anyway,” he added, “the voting’s already begun, you gotta go out and vote.”
He also told the New York Post in an interview, “We just don’t think that there’s any need for it” and he insisted, “I did well. I did really well.”
After his initial announcement on his social media platform earlier in the day, the Twittersphere exploded with “bok bok chicken” jabs.
Harris herself hit back with more restraint.
“Two nights ago, Donald Trump and I had our first debate,” she posted on X. “We owe it to the voters to have another debate.”
And at a fiery rally in North Carolina Thursday afternoon, she told supporters, “Two nights ago Donald Trump and I had our first debate. And I believe we owe it to the voters to have another debate.”
Numerous polls have suggested Harris bested Trump in the debate. After she started the evening by appearing to rattle him with a handshake, Harris spent the debate laughing at Trump, looking at him in disbelief and baiting him to talk about issues that would not work in his favor.
She had few real stumbles, while the former president repeatedly spouted outlandish claims about illegal immigrants “eating the pets” and Democrats supporting killing babies. One of the GOP’s most prominent pollsters even suggested Trump’s performance might cost him the election.
But Trump is spinning the Democrats’ call for another debate as the response of a sore loser—not a candidate playing to her strengths.
“When a prizefighter loses a fight, the first words out of his mouth are, ‘I WANT A REMATCH,’ he wrote in his Truth Social post.
Trump and his allies spent the day attacking ABC News for treating him unfairly, while the vice president’s giddy team sought a rematch as soon as the first debate ended.
“Under the bright lights, the American people got to see the choice they will face this fall at the ballot box: between moving forward with Kamala Harris, or going backwards with Trump,” campaign chair Jen O’Malley Dillon wrote in a statement Tuesday night. “That’s what they saw tonight and what they should see at a second debate in October. Vice President Harris is ready for a second debate. Is Donald Trump?”
Though Trump wavered on debating Harris after his knockout performance against Joe Biden, he said last month he was open to three debates with her in September. However, he already appeared to be changing his tune after walking off the stage Tuesday night, telling Sean Hannity, “If you won the debate, I sort of think maybe I shouldn’t do it. Why should I do another debate?”
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Why won’t she debate on Fox News?
She’s afraid of real questions…
Trump already WON 2 out of 3 !!! We’ve heard enough total lies out of evil lying KamalToe…
Hey Kamala needs her boy to bash President Trump for her. Remember tell it to my face? Looks like he told you about policies. How about your policies you didn’t steal from President Trump? Talk about a chicken and it’s not President Trump. I find it funny because three were set up, but you only wanted to have it with friendly people who would do your dirty work for you. You are so fake and phony. Act all big with back up really. He kicked your butt. Your lies was so pathetic. Rigging a debate is even worse. If you can’t actually debate on policies then how are you going to take on China? Really viewers turn it off because they couldn’t stand stand you and your lies anymore. Just answer me this wannabe.how did earrings work out think I will buy a pair. How did having help from sorority sister help? How did a Trump hater help? How did the calming drugs help? I still have no idea what your policies are. You stole Biden’s from him. You stole some from President Trump and JD Vance. But most of all you took the master piece of someone’ else on project 2025. So where are yours? I want to see you do a sit down with Newsmax reporters Carl, Rob, Chris or or Greg. All by your big girl self with no earrings, no pre approved questions, no friendly face. So tell me who is a chicken and so weak you would give our country to China within ten minutes. All good of talk behind ones back but can’t talk to face without lying about everything you say. Tell me about your middle class life please. I come from middle class and I didn’t live in homes like that, neighborhood like that, didn’t get in private schools like that. So tell me about being middle class. You have had everything giving to you all your life. Funny how no man lies for me. Funny how my husband doesn’t make me the one working. Funny how it takes two to earn 1/10 of your yearly salary. I don’t get security for my safety. I have to decide to eat or medicine for the week. I have to decide if I can get $10 of gas or $20 for the week. I don’t get to go out and eat anymore. Yet I watch your middle class life flying in planes and helicopters, staying in fancy hotels, eating at nice restaurants and wearing $64,000.00 necklaces. So please tell me how is my hard middle class work paying off for your nice lying life? So you see phony and fake are appropriate words for you. You want to protect me really? So glad I could make your middle class life so comfortable. Can’t wait to hear your new lie for tomorrow.