Trump Does Mental Gymnastics To Avoid Debating Kamala Harris Again

Former President Donald Trump says he’s knocked back another request to debate Vice President Kamala Harris because he … doesn’t want to beat her again?

“Lyin’ Kamala just put out a request for another Debate because they lost so badly tonight — Again, it’s like the fighter who lost, gets up and says, ‘I WANT A REMATCH,’” he posted on Truth Social after Tuesday night’s vice presidential debate. “I beat Biden, I then beat her, and I’m not looking to do it again, too far down the line. Votes are already cast — And I’m leading BIG in the Polls. I’ll MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN, she’s incapable of it!”

The Harris campaign did not immediately return a request for comment on her purported offer for another debate.

Analysts, commentators and pollsters largely concluded that Harris, the Democratic nominee, won the Sept. 10 presidential debate against her GOP opponent.

To use a fighting analogy like Trump’s, as one NPR political correspondent put it, if Trump were a boxer, he “was cut and bleeding in the middle of the fight, and by the end, was TKO’d.”

Nonetheless, the morning after the event, Trump declared on Fox News that he had won, using the same analogy to describe why Harris wanted a rematch. He later claimed, without evidence, that the “polls clearly show” he was the victor, citing that as his reason for not agreeing to another.

Harris has accepted an invitation from CNN to debate again on Oct. 23. Using a different excuse, Trump subsequently argued that will be “too late” in the campaign and that “voting has already started.”

The Democratic National Committee has been taunting him as a “chicken” for refusing to face Harris again.

While the reviews are still rolling in for Tuesday night’s vice presidential debate between Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz (D) and Sen. JD Vance (R-Ohio), severalsnap polls suggested there was no clear winner.