Former President Donald Trump posted on social media that he's not inclined to debate Vice President Kamala Harris again, and the Florida Supreme Court expedites a case against Gov. Ron DeSantis' administration.
Trump says he's not inclined to debate Harris again, claims Tuesday's event was 'rigged'
Declaring himself the winner of Tuesday night’s presidential debate against Vice President Kamala Harris, former President Donald Trump said Wednesday he does not feel inclined to do a rematch.
“When a fighter loses, he says, ‘I want a rematch’ ... I don’t know that I want to do another debate,” Trump said in an interview with “Fox & Friends."
The former president, however, left an opening to change his mind, saying, “I think we let it settle in. Let’s see what happens.”
Trump claimed: “Every single poll last night had me winning like 90 to 10.” He said a C-SPAN poll showed him besting Harris at one point 80%-20%.
The C-SPAN poll was an informal survey on X, formerly Twitter. Spectrum News has reached out to the Trump campaign for more information about the other polling Trump cited.
In a CNN flash poll conducted by the firm SSRS, 63% of debate watchers said Harris won, while 37% said Trump won.
Trump complained the debate was “rigged” and that it was “three on one,” arguing ABC News moderators David Muir and Linsey Davis were unfair toward him.
Trump accused the moderators of fact-checking him and not Harris. Muir and Davis challenged several of Trump’s false and misleading claims, including about crime statistics and a conspiracy theory that Haitian migrants are stealing and eating pets in Ohio and crime statistics.
The moderators, however, let some other dubious Trump statements go unchecked, including when he implied that all judges dismissed his legal challenges of the 2020 election based on lack of standing, that former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi rejected his offer for 10,000 National Guard troops on Jan. 6, 2021, and that his administration terminated the Afghanistan withdrawal deal it negotiated with the Taliban before he left office because the terrorist organization violated its terms.
Some misleading comments by Harris were indeed not fact-checked, such as her claims that Trump is associated with the conservative roadmap known as Project 2025 and that couples are being denied IVF treatment.
“It was a rigged deal, as I assumed it would be. … They were correcting everything (I said) and not correcting with her,” Trump said.
The former president called ABC News “the most dishonest news organization,” adding: “They ought to take away their license for the way they did that.”
Florida Supreme Court expedites a case against DeSantis administration
The Florida Supreme Court says it will expedite a case against Gov. Ron DeSantis and other state leaders.
A Palm Beach county attorney accuses them of interfering with Floridians’ rights to decide how they will vote on Amendment 4.
The amendment seeks to protect access to abortion in the state.
Last week, the state’s Agency for Health Care Administration launched a website that claims "fearmongers" are lying to Floridians about Amendment 4.
AHCA also paid for a TV ad directing people to the site.
Florida Democrats say it's against the law to use state resources to further a political agenda.
The lawsuit urges the Supreme Court to order DeSantis and other state leaders to stop using their offices to interfere with the election.
The court has ordered AHCA to file a response by Sept. 23.