Harris challenges Trump to face off debate

Kamala Harris, US vice president has challenged rival Donald Trump to a face off debate with her as the heat of campaigns begin.

Harris, who has taken aim at Trump’s legal woes and stances on healthcare and abortion, challenged her rival to keep his commitment to debate her in September after the Republican said he could “make a case” for skipping the event.

During a campaign event in Atlanta, Georgia on Tuesday, Harris said that momentum in the race was shifting and there were signs Trump was “feeling it”.

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“Well Donald, I do hope you’ll reconsider to meet me on the debate stage,” she said. “Because as the saying goes, ‘If you’ve got something to say, say it to my face.”

She spoke of  her role as a California attorney general who prosecuted transnational gangs, drug cartels and human traffickers, then blamed Trump for “tanking” this year’s bipartisan border bill on Capitol Hill “because he thought it would help him win an election.”

“Donald Trump does not care about border security, he only cares about himself,” Harris said, adding that she would work to pass the bill as president,” she said

“In this campaign, I will proudly put my record against his any day,” she said in the high-profile visit to Georgia.

During a campaign rally in North Carolina last week, Trump lambasted the former California senator as a “radical left-liberal, San Francisco extremist” and claimed that she made Senator Bernie Sanders, a self-described democratic socialist, look like a moderate in comparison, Al Jazeera reported.

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Trump’s running mate, Ohio Senator JD Vance, on Tuesday returned to that theme during a campaign event in Nevada.

“We don’t want a wacky San Francisco liberal serving as commander in chief,” Vance said. “We don’t want Kamala Harris.

Harris, who will be formally named the Democratic nominee on Monday, is expected to announce her running mate within days before embarking on a tour of swing states that will decide the election on November 5.