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[Text/Observer Network Zhang Jingjuan] US President Biden and former US President Trump had agreed to participate in a debate hosted by the American Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) on September 10, but changes occurred due to Biden's withdrawal from the election.

According to CNN, Fox News has invited Harris and Trump to debate in the swing state of Pennsylvania on September 17, and said that "the specific date, format, location and whether there will be an audience can be discussed." Fox News political anchors Bret Baier and Martha MacCallum will serve as debate hosts.

U.S. Vice President Harris, who "took over" from Biden, posted on the social platform "X" on the 25th that she is ready to debate with Trump and that voters should see the differences in this campaign on the debate stage.

However, she said that although Trump had previously agreed to hold a debate in September, he now seems to be changing his mind.

According to AFP, the Trump campaign refused to schedule a debate with Harris because she has not yet been officially nominated as the party's candidate.

"The details of the general election debates cannot be finalized until the Democratic Party formally confirms its nominee. It would be inappropriate to schedule a debate with Harris because Democrats could easily change their minds," Steven Cheung, a spokesman for the Trump campaign, wrote in a statement.

Harris, who learned that she was rejected, asked on social media: "Didn't (Trump) say 'any time, any place'?"

Steven Zhang immediately responded, how many delegates do you have officially nominated? Zero. How many people voted for you in the primary? Zero.

At present, it seems that the competition between the two parties in this year's US election has entered a stalemate.

According to a report on the U.S. News Weekly website on the 22nd, two political polls conducted after Biden gave up his re-election campaign showed that if Harris was selected as the Democratic presidential candidate, she would lose to Trump.

However, the New York Times reported on the 25th that a poll conducted by the New York Times and Siena College on 1,142 voters across the United States from July 22 to 24, 2024 showed that Harris currently won 47% of the voters surveyed, only 1 percentage point behind Trump. Compared with the poll conducted by the newspaper in early July after the former Democratic presidential candidate Biden lost the debate, there was a significant increase, when Biden was 6 percentage points behind Trump.

According to the report, Harris successfully united Democratic voters who were previously skeptical of Biden, and 90% of the Democrats surveyed expressed enthusiasm for her nomination. At the same time, polls show that most male respondents intend to vote for Trump, while women intend to vote for Harris.

On the same day, a poll conducted by Axios News and Generation Lab showed that Harris had a 60% support rate among young American voters, 20 percentage points ahead of Trump.

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