'Get back in there': Kellyanne Conway urges Trump to debate Harris again before election

01 October 2024

Kellyanne Conway, one of former President Donald Trump's top advisors, is now pushing him to debate Vice President Kamala Harris one more time before voters head to the polls next month despite him repeatedly refusing to participate in a second debate.

In a recent interview with Fox News host Jesse Watters, Conway opined that tonight's vice presidential debate between Sen. JD Vance (R-Ohio) and Minnesota Democratic Governor Tim Walz would likely be what convinces the former president to accept Harris' challenge for another face-off ahead of the November 5 election. Conway added that in a recent conversation, she urged Trump to "get back in there" and debate his Democratic opponent one more time.

"I said to him, ‘The guy I know, you, is not going to be able to sit down after a 90-minute VP debate and let that be the last word in presidential debates,’” Conway told Watters. “You’re going to say, ‘when’s our next one?’ And I hope he does that.”

Conway compared the ex-president to Major League Baseball star designated hitter Shohei Ohtani, who plays for the Los Angeles Dodgers (even though Trump is reportedly a lifelong New York Yankees fan, according to the Daily Beast). She even acknowledged that Harris won the first debate, but downplayed it by saying "She's one for one, big deal."

“I told him, you’re like Shohei Ohtani, you’re pitching, you’re batting, you’ve done seven of them,” Conway said, referring to the number of televised debates Trump has done between the 2015 Republican presidential primary cycle and his September debate with Harris.

The September 10 debate on ABC News was widely viewed as a loss for Trump, including by Fox News hosts Bret Baier and Brit Hume. Harris has goaded the former president on multiple occasions into accepting her challenge to another televised debate. And Baier even noted in a segment last week that the vice president's campaign has indicated a willingness to debate her Republican opponent on the conservative network.

Harris' campaign even took its call for another debate directly to Trump when he attended last Saturday's game between the Alabama Crimson Tide and the Georgia Bulldogs at Bryant-Denny Stadium in Tuscaloosa, Alabama. Her campaign paid for an airplane to fly a banner over the stadium that read "Trump's punting on 2nd debate," and she paid for a TV ad to be broadcast during the game directly calling out the former president to appear for another debate.

Following the ABC debate, Trump suggested that if he won a second term in the White House, he would revoke ABC's broadcast license due to moderators David Muir and Linsey Davis fact-checking him during the debate. Both moderators directly refuted Trump's baseless claims that Haitian migrants were eating pets, that babies were being executed after birth in states that allowed abortion and that he didn't lose the 2020 election.

Both Vance and Walz will kick off their vice presidential debate tonight at 8 PM Eastern Time on CBS.

Watch the video of Conway's segment below, or by clicking this link.

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