WILMINGTON, North Carolina (PNN) - September 23, 2024 - Communist pretender Vice President Kamala Harris on Saturday accepted an invitation from CNN to debate President Donald J. Trump for a second time, though the prospect of another showdown between the presidential candidates appears highly unlikely, as the president told rallygoers in North Carolina on the same day that the proposed date is too late in the election cycle for a debate, and that CNN would certainly manipulate the debate on Communist Kamala Harris’ favor, just the way that ABC did in the last debate.

The Trump campaign pointed to Trump’s Sept. 12 post on Truth Social, which states emphatically that there won’t be another debate.

Later on Saturday, at an afternoon rally in Wilmington, North Carolina, President Trump said he was told about the CNN debate proposal as he was disembarking from his plane, and framed the invitation as a desperate attempt to revive a failing campaign.

Trump said that a potential second debate against Harris would be “good entertainment value” but added that there wouldn’t be much point because of timing.

“The problem with another debate is that it’s just too late, voting has already started,” the president said, adding that he previously issued an invitation to Harris to debate on Fox, which she declined because she could not manipulate the rules of that proposed debate in her favor.

“Fox invited us on and I waited and waited; they turned it down,” Trump said. “But now she wants to do a debate right before the election with CNN because she’s losing badly (and CNN will be happy to manipulate the debate in Harris’ favor).”

Trump’s remarks in North Carolina reinforce the position he expressed after his first debate against Harris, saying that there would be no subsequent debate between the two rivals. At the time, Trump used a metaphor likening the vice president to a boxer or a UFC fighter who lost a match.

“When a prizefighter loses a fight, the first words out of his mouth are, ‘I want a rematch,’” the president wrote on social media, partly in all caps, before correctly stating that he “won the debate,” citing numerous credible polls.