The team of the Vice President of the United States, Kamala Harris, has called for a second televised debate with Republican Donald Trump, after the Democratic candidate emerged victorious from a first face-to-face in which she managed to put the tycoon and former tenant of the White House on the defensive.
63 percent of voters who watched the duel that both candidates fought in front of the cameras on Tuesday night consider that Harris did better, compared to 37 percent who lean towards Trump, according to a survey released by the CNN network.
Among Democratic voters, enthusiasm is massive and 96 percent consider their candidate the winner, while in the Republican field 69 percent believe that Trump has won, according to the same survey. “It was fun. Let’s do it again,” Harris’s advisor, Brian Fallon, asked on social networks.
The vice president’s campaign team has suggested that the two candidates meet again in October. “Vice President Harris is ready for a second debate. Is Trump?” she said in an email, according to ABC News, the organizer of the first and so far only televised duel.
Trump, who had publicly challenged Harris to hold three debates, has now said that the Democrats now want another one “because they lost,” in an unusual statement to journalists accredited to follow Tuesday’s meeting in Philadelphia.
The former president, however, was more reluctant in a subsequent interview with Fox News: “Maybe we shouldn’t do it.” In this sense, he has declared himself the winner of the meeting and has questioned the Democrats’ haste in asking for a new debate: “When you lose, you immediately want revenge.”
Several networks had offered to host another face-to-face between Trump and Harris, but for now the only confirmed meeting is the debate between the two running mates. The candidates for Vice President will meet on October 1.
