Donald Trump has once again lashed out at Democrat Kamala Harris. He is also responding to accusations from Joe Biden, who expects violence in the event of Trump’s defeat.
The two US presidential candidates Donald Trump and Kamala Harris want to face each other in their first TV duel in September. The television station ABC announced that the Republican and the Democrat had both agreed to a debate on September 10 (local time/September 11 CEST). The date had already been agreed upon by Trump and the Democratic US President Joe Biden before Biden withdrew from the race and Harris took his place.
In the meantime, however, Trump had suggested another date with another broadcaster as an alternative. Now, at a press conference at his Mar-a-Lago estate in Florida, the Republican declared that he wanted to take part in a total of three debates against Harris. His team had agreed dates with two other television stations for September 4 (September 5 according to German time) and September 25 (September 26 according to German time).
According to journalists traveling with her, Harris said on the sidelines of a campaign tour in the state of Michigan that she was glad that Trump had finally agreed to a debate on September 10. She was open to talking about another debate. She did not get more specific.
TV duel not only between Harris and Trump
Trump also said that a debate between the two vice presidential candidates, JD Vance and Tim Walz, was planned. He did not give a possible date for this.
In recent days, Trump and Harris have been engaged in a public tug-of-war over a date for a TV debate and have accused each other of ducking out of fear of the other.
At his press conference in Mar-a-Lago, Trump once again sharply attacked Harris, denigrating her as incompetent and stupid and saying, among other things, “She’s not smart enough to give a press conference.”
Trump assures peaceful transfer of power
At the same time, he assured the press conference that there would “of course” be a peaceful transfer of power. That had happened in the most recent election, he claimed, and it would happen again. “I just hope that we will have honest elections. That’s all.”
He was referring to a warning from US President Biden. He was “not at all confident” that there would be a peaceful transfer of power if Trump were to lose the election, he said in response to a question on the subject in an interview with US broadcaster CBS News.
In March, the former president said at a campaign event: “If I am not elected, there will be a bloodbath.” In the interview, the US president said of Trump’s comments: “He means what he says. We don’t take him seriously. He means it.”
