Trump Rejects Fox News Proposal of 2nd Debate With Harris

People watch the presidential debate between Democratic presidential nominee, Vice President Kamala Harris, and Republican presidential nominee, former President Donald Trump, at a watch party at the Slate bar and lounge in New York City on Sept. 10, 2024. Samira Bouaou/The Epoch Times

Former President Donald Trump has declined Fox News’s final proposal of a debate between him and Vice President Kamala Harris.

Fox News’ Martha MacCallum announced on Oct. 9 that the network had contacted the Trump and Harris campaigns about debating on Oct. 24 or Oct. 27 in Pennsylvania, saying the network was making its “final pitch” to the candidates. She said Fox was “offering a chance for them to make their closing argument.”

MacCallum said the network believed that a second debate between Harris and Trump would serve as “a great opportunity to give the people one more chance to see them both onstage and to make up their minds.”

“THERE WILL BE NO REMATCH!” Trump wrote in response on Truth Social.

The Harris campaign did not respond to a request for comment.

The Republican presidential nominee said that “there is nothing to debate” because Harris appeared on ABC-TV’s “The View” and said she couldn’t think of any presidential policies or actions she would have handled differently than President Joe Biden did.

“It is very late in the process” prior to the Nov. 5 election, Trump said, noting that “voting has already begun.”

As of Oct. 9, nearly 3 million people have already voted in the United States, according to data from the University of Florida’s Election Lab. 

Trump faced off against his original Democratic opponent, Biden, in a June 27 debate that CNN hosted in Atlanta.

Biden, under fire for his debate performance, dropped out of the presidential race less than a month later and endorsed Harris. Shortly thereafter, she became the Democratic Party’s presidential nominee.

Trump and Harris debated on ABC News in Philadelphia on Sept. 10. Afterward, her campaign proposed another debate. Trump declined.

The former president’s calendar was already filled on one of the proposed Fox dates. Trump booked New York’s historic Madison Square Garden for a rally on Oct. 27.

Earlier this month, Trump had rejected a CNN-proposed date on Oct. 23 that Harris had accepted.

On Oct. 23, Trump is scheduled for a rally in Duluth, Georgia.

Likewise, the running mates for Trump and Harris will likely end the election cycle with only one debate. The debate between Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz and Ohio Sen. JD Vance (R) drew 43 million TV viewers, making it the highest-rated vice-presidential debate since 2008.