Harris agrees to CNN debate, Trump rejects idea 

Washington — 

U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris has accepted an invitation from CNN to enactment successful different statement against Donald Trump connected October 23 and urges her Republican rival to look her little than 2 weeks up of the November 5 statesmanlike election, the Democratic candidate's run said connected Saturday.

"Vice President Harris is acceptable for different accidental to stock a signifier with Donald Trump, and she has accepted CNN's invitation to a statement connected October 23. Donald Trump should person nary occupation agreeing to this debate," Jen O'Malley Dillon, the seat of the Harris campaign, said successful a statement.

Asked astir Harris' acceptance of the CNN invitation, a Trump spokesperson referred to the Republican erstwhile president's anterior statements that determination would beryllium nary much debates.

Harris and Trump debated each different for the archetypal clip connected September 10, successful a contention that polls showed was won by the Democratic nominee.

Trump past week said helium would not enactment successful different statement against Harris earlier the election.

"THERE WILL BE NO THIRD DEBATE!" the erstwhile president wrote connected his societal media tract Truth Social past Thursday.

Trump debated President Joe Biden successful June earlier his matchup against Harris.

Biden's shaky show successful that statement rattled Democrats and prompted strategists to inquire whether their enactment should instrumentality the unprecedented measurement of replacing the 81-year-old president arsenic their candidate.

Biden withdrew from the contention for the White House successful July.