Trump Rejects Calls for Another Debate as 880,000 Early Votes Already Cast

On social media, former President Donald Trump repeated his decision to abstain from participating in any further debates in the run-up to the November election. He said he will not do that because, according to him, votes already have been cast.

In late October 1, he made an announcement to Truth Social that Vice President Kamala Harris’s presidential campaign “has asked for another debate.” He further posited that he thinks he won their first and only debate a month ago. Since it’s down the road too far, I am not going to do this again. “The vote has already been cast,” Trump wrote.

Last night, October 1, the former president did that right after the first and only vice presidential debate that his running mate, Senator JD Vance (R-Ohio), and Harris’s running mate, Minnesota Governor Tim Walz, participated in among themselves.

Just five weeks now remain until the day of the election, and millions of voters now have the opportunity to cast their ballots early.

Jane O’Malley Dillon, campaign chair for Harris, said last week in a statement that “Vice President Harris believes the American people deserve to see him and Trump on the debate stage again.”

He said Donald Trump needs to stand up to the people who voted for him. “He’ll be in Atlanta on October 23rd.”

At the first hearing a month ago, the Harrises made a similar plea. At the time, Trump made it clear he would not participate in the debate and said he was confident of winning.

Late in June, Trump also met Vice President Joe Biden, which later in itself provoked enormous calls from Democratic quarters for Biden to defer his campaign for reinauguration. In July he announced his withdrawal of his campaign and endorsed Harris who was then nominated as the nominee of the Democratic Party to challenge Trump.

According to a tracking website that was given by the Election Lab at the University of Florida, as of October 2nd, more than 880,000 individuals had voted early in person or returned ballots that were mailed in. 588,000 votes have been cast by mail, and 299,000 have been cast in person so far.

According to Tracker, more than sixty percent of individuals who vote early or by mail are Democrats, twenty-four percent are Republicans, and fifteen percent are unaffiliated or otherwise This information depending on which countries certify the group. According to data, 57 percent of first-time voters are 65 or older, and another 29 percent are 41 to 65 years old.

The vice presidential debate continued as the stakes of the election were further raised. This happened as Iran fired missiles at Israel, at the same time a devastating hurricane and possibly weakening port attacks plagued the country at home at the same time Walz and Vance were trying to put them to bed ho revealed to the nation, their The disparities in character and ethics among discussed the race competitors

Earlier this week, in a statement from CBS News, the Trump campaign announced that the former president would not participate in a prime-time interview scheduled for “60 Minutes.”

“As the United States of America prepares to go to the polls, 60 Minutes has, for more than half a century, extended invitations to both the Democratic and Republican tickets to appear on our broadcast,” the channel said in a statement. Harris and the Trump campaign had agreed to 60 minutes for the first time this year.

CBS later announced that “after initially agreeing to 60 Minutes’ request for an interview with Scott Paley, former President Trump’s campaign decided not to participate.”

A spokesman for President Trump named Steven Cheung declared on social media that the assertion made by CBS News is “fake news” due to the fact that “60 Minutes” had “begged for an interview.”

The network “insisted on doing live fact checking,” he said, adding that there had been initial negotiations, but nothing was ever scheduled or locked in. He also mentioned that there had been initial discussions.