Kamala Harris challenges Trump to live debate amid tight race

Vice President of the USA Kamala Harris announced that she is ready for a televised debate with Donald Trump. She criticized him for trying to back out of previous agreements regarding holding such a debate on ABC News on September 10.

The September 10 debate was supposed to be the second showdown between Trump and President Joe Biden. Biden announced on Sunday that he would not seek re-election.

During a teleconference on Tuesday, Trump told reporters that he would participate in the debate with the Vice President and is willing to partake in more than one such duel. He assessed that Kamala Harris would be easier to defeat than Biden.

Trump is, however, demanding that the debate be moved from ABC News to the Republican-supporting Fox News.

- [Trump] agreed to that previously. Now here he is backpedaling, and I’m ready and I think the voters deserve to see the split screen that exists in this race on a debate stage. And so I’m ready to go - Harris said during a brief meeting with reporters.

Also on Thursday, Harris's candidacy was endorsed by Treasury Secretary and former Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen, who stated that the Vice President "would maintain U.S. leadership on global issues."

Yellen said Harris deeply understands the "issues America faces in the world" and knows "why it is important to restore U.S. leadership on the global stage and she's been a critical part of that efforts."

According to a new CNN poll conducted by the American research firm SSRS, Trump currently has 49 percent of voter support. Forty-six percent of respondents declared they would vote for Kamala Harris.

CNN emphasizes that this is a more evenly matched race than the previous poll showed in the Biden-Trump bout.

Source: PAP/WP