{"id":107277,"date":"2024-09-21T21:01:56","date_gmt":"2024-09-21T21:01:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/harris-accepts-cnn-offer-for-second-presidential-debate-on-oct-23\/"},"modified":"2024-09-21T21:01:56","modified_gmt":"2024-09-21T21:01:56","slug":"harris-accepts-cnn-offer-for-second-presidential-debate-on-oct-23","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/harris-accepts-cnn-offer-for-second-presidential-debate-on-oct-23\/","title":{"rendered":"Harris accepts CNN offer for second presidential debate on Oct. 23"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<figure><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/syndication.abcaudio.com\/files\/2024-09-21\/Getty_092124_VPHarris.jpg\" alt><figcaption>Win McNamee\/Getty Images<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>(NEW YORK) &#8212; Vice President Kamala Harris said Saturday she has accepted an offer from CNN for a second presidential debate against former President Donald Trump on Oct. 23.<\/p>\n<p>Harris said in a statement on X that she accepted the offer for the debate and called on her opponent to accept as well.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I hope @realDonaldTrump will join me,&#8221; she said in her post.<\/p>\n<p>The Harris campaign challenged Trump to another debate less than an hour after the Sept. 10 ABC News presidential debate ended. However, Trump said in a statement that he would not participate in another debate against Harris. He has not publicly responded to the CNN offer.<\/p>\n<p>The October CNN debate would have the same rules as the debate in June that the network held between Trump and President Joe Biden, according to Harris campaign chair Jen O&#8217;Malley Dillon. That includes no audience and the microphones would be muted when one candidate isn&#8217;t speaking, sources with knowledge of the rules told ABC News.<\/p>\n<p>The debate would take place long after early voting begins in several states across the country. A debate between vice presidential candidates Gov. Tim Walz and Sen. JD Vance is scheduled for Oct. 1 on CBS.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It would be unprecedented in modern history for there to just be one general election debate,&#8221; O&#8217;Malley Dillon said in a statement. adding that &#8220;debates offer a unique chance for voters to see the candidates side by side and take stock of their competing visions for America.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><em>ABC News&#8217; Rick Klein and Ivan Pereira contributed to this report.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2024, ABC Audio. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Win McNamee\/Getty Images (NEW YORK) &#8212; Vice President Kamala Harris said Saturday she has accepted an offer from CNN for a second presidential debate against former President Donald Trump on Oct. 23. Harris said in a statement on X that she accepted the offer for the debate and called on<span class=\"more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/harris-accepts-cnn-offer-for-second-presidential-debate-on-oct-23\/\">Read More &rarr;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[156,31,2],"tags":[273,271,276,274,270,123,275,133,124,272,102,103],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107277"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=107277"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107277\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=107277"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=107277"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=107277"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}