CNN’s John Berman Asks Trump Flack Why He Won’t Commit to Second Debate: ‘What Is He Worried About?’

CNN’s John Berman asked Trump national press secretary Karoline Leavitt why her candidate wouldn’t commit to a second debate on Wednesday morning, just hours after he and Vice President Kamala Harris squared off in Philadelphia on Tuesday night.

After playing a clip of Donald Trump expressing doubt that he would participate in another debate on Tuesday night and noting that he did so again on Wednesday, Berman inquired “why” Trump wouldn’t want another debate.

“What is he worried about?” he asked.

“Well, I haven’t talked to the president since he made those remarks, John. As you know, he’s at the 9/11 Ground Zero ceremony this morning commemorating the anniversary and the lives lost in that terrorist attack. However, what I will say is that all of the debates that we have announced on this campaign — and there have been many of them — have come from President Trump directly. So I will let him make an announcement on that front,” replied Leavitt. “What I can also say is last night was a big success for President Trump. He was able to highlight his record of success in his first term with the failures of the last four yeasr of Kamala Harris. And Kamala Harris needs to do a sit down interview, John. President Trump, I can assure you, one thing I can say this morning is he will absolutely continue to do media interviews, sit-downs with local stations like we do in every battleground state we travel to, hours long podcast interviews and press conferences. Kamala Harris is going on day 52 of not doing any of that. And she has to because after last night, the American people still have a lot of unanswered questions about her record and where she stands on the issues.”

“In the CNN snap poll after the debate, a majority, a pretty large majority, said they believed that Kamala Harris turned in the better performance,” shot back Berman. “You called it a success for Donald Trump, 63% said that she had the better performance, 37% say Donald Trump. You know what? This is actually a Republican audience here, four points more Republican than actually registered voters. So what do you make of that?”

“Well, you know what that audience also said is they said that they trust President Trump more to handle the economy than they do Kamala Harris and his support on the on the issue of the economy actually increased after last night’s debate because he outlined the problems that people are experiencing at home, the 50% increase in mortgage rates, the 50% increase in gas prices since Kamala Harris has been vice president, and how those were not an issue in Americans’ lives under his leadership,” answered Leavitt. “And so voters trust President Trump on the issues that matter to them. That was proven in CNN’s poll, and I think the debate was summarized best by a woman in one of your focus groups last night from Erie, Pennsylvania. And she said, ‘When facts come to facts, my life was better under President Trump.'”

“That is the main question in this election: Are you better off today than you were four years ago?” she concluded. “Kamala Harris refused to answer that question on the debate stage last night because she knows the answer is no. Americans are not better off today than they were under President Trump. And the American people know that, too, because they feel it in their lives and in their pocketbooks every day.”

Watch above via CNN.