Florida: In a rare news conference in Florida, Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump said on August 8 that he would rather run against Vice President Kamala Harris than President Joe Biden, adding that he wants three presidential debates with her before the election in November.
Speaking to reporters at his Mar-a-Lago estate in Palm Beach here, Trump said, “We were given Joe Biden, and now we’re given somebody else. And I think frankly, I’d rather be running against somebody else. We’d like to do three debates. We think we should do three debates”.
The former President said it is very important to have debates and he is ready to have one with Harris. “They may or may not agree. I don’t know if they’re going to agree. She hasn’t done an interview. She can’t do an interview. She’s barely competent and she can’t do an interview, but I look forward to the debates because I think we have to set the record straight”.
Admitting that he “hasn’t re-calibrated strategy at all” since Vice President Harris became the Democratic presidential nominee, Trump attacked her again, saying she is a “radical left person,” and weak on crime. Trump also praised his running mate, JD Vance, saying Vance has really stepped up and is doing a fantastic job.
He said the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) did a “very good job” with the investigation into his assassination attempt last month. “The FBI came to see me about the shooter. I think they’ve done a very good job, and I think they did a very good job with respect to this other lunatic that they have in custody,” Trump said.
Earlier this week, Harris picked Tim Walz, the Democratic Governor of Minnesota, as her running mate. Walz, 60, is a former schoolteacher, a military veteran, a member of the House of Representatives, a two-term Governor and, the man who coined the word "weird" to describe Trump, Vance, and their campaign.
A new poll confirmed that Kamala Harris has drawn level with Trump, transforming a White House race that the Republican had been increasingly confident he was going to win. As the November 5 election rapidly approaches, Harris has erased the growing lead that Trump was building before President Biden dropped his reelection bid.
