Former US President Donald Trump has said he won't appear in a second debate with Vice President Kamala Harris, and it's leading topic in the Western press. With his statement, he drew criticism from his rivals from the Democratic Party, after being put on the defensive in the televised duel, writes the American in. "USA Today".
In his post on the social network "Truth Social" The Republican candidate cited polls that suggested he had won the race against Harris, but appeared to take into account online polls of people who self-reported their willingness to participate in such a study, the publication noted.
At a rally in Arizona -- his first campaign event since the debate -- Trump spent a lot of time defending his televised performance, criticizing the event's host, ABC News, and attacking Harris (and Biden) on economic and immigration issues, continues "USA Today".
Charlotte Clymer, a writer and Democratic strategist, told the newspaper: "Let's be clear: Donald Trump got slapped hard by Vice President Harris in this debate. She immediately agreed to a second debate with him. He has now refused a second debate. Trump is a coward".
Trump, who first faced Joe Biden in televised debates, said there would be "NO THIRD DEBATE" after his campaign released a document highlighting successes in "target states," it said in a headline in the "New York Post".
No public poll of debate watchers showed Trump winning over Harris, 59, on Tuesday night, the paper said, adding that 60 percent of nonpartisan voters in a focus group said after the debate they favored the candidate. of the Republicans.
"It is clear that voters were not impressed by Kamala Harris' empty platitudes, and while the media would have people believe that she is on her way to victory, that could not be further from the truth. says the study by Republican campaign sociologists Tony Fabrizio and Travis Tunis.
It is important that Harris continues to expose Trump, but this may not be enough to win, writes the American politician Bernie Sanders in the British "Guardian". In front of the entire world, she did an extremely effective job during Tuesday's televised debates of showing how utterly unfit Donald Trump is to be president of the United States, the analyst says.
Americans saw him as president for four years and three times already as a presidential candidate. They are more than aware that he lies constantly, that he supported the rebellion against American democracy and that he is guilty of 34 serious crimes, writes the text in the "Guardian". Yet about half of American voters still support him - including a large majority of working-class voters, the British paper noted.
"However, I believe Harris's chances of victory will increase if she broadens her agenda to include solutions to the most important economic and political realities facing this country,", Sanders believes.
Even some Republicans have admitted that Trump's performance was unconvincing, with fellow senator Lindsey Graham speaking of a "missed opportunity", and some representatives of the US Republican Party told the American edition of the magazine " Politico" that they are not impressed with him.
Vice President Harris repeatedly tried to get on Trump's nerves, often succeeding, as the former president veered off-topic and talked about how many people came to watch the debate, about Biden and floated the conspiracy theory about migrants kidnapping pets in a city in the state of Ohio, writes the American newspaper "Hill".
Donald Trump's campaign is in bad shape after his lackluster debate performance against Kamala Harris irked Republican allies who believe he was unprepared, outmatched by the vice president and sent a disjointed message to voters, the British in . "Financial Times".
While Republican strategists and lawmakers do not believe Trump's uneven performance has weakened his campaign, many acknowledge that the former president has struggled and that his re-election bid now looks more uncertain.
"The biggest disappointment with his performance is that he fell on the bullseye, which hindered him. So it's definitely a missed opportunity,'' said one senior Republican strategist close to Trump.
"Maybe he was overconfident. Maybe he hadn't prepared. Maybe he was just tired,'' said John Catsimatidis, a New York billionaire, grocery magnate and Trump donor, quoted by the Financial Times.
Trump allowed himself to be provoked by Harris during the televised debate, appeared irritated at times and eventually went on the defensive, commented the German newspaper "Zeit" and notes that according to TV "Fox News" Harris is the winner of the debate. On the other hand, Trump continues to claim that he won, the publication points out.