Ex-Trump Aide Spots How Kamala Harris May Bait Trump Into Second Debate

Democratic nominee Kamala Harris’ call for a second debate with GOP rival Donald Trump — immediately after their first one wrapped on Tuesday — was “incredibly smart politics,” former Trump White House communications director Alyssa Farah Griffin told CNN’s Wolf Blitzer.

It put Republican nominee Trump “on the defensive, a place he doesn’t like to be,” Griffin explained Thursday. “So, I actually think there’s a world in which he tries to flip the narrative and agree to another debate,” Griffin added.

Trump boldly declared himself the winner of the televised matchup, despite even multiple conservative commentators claiming otherwise.

The former president has refused to go head-to-head with Harris again.

But Griffin said not to rule it out and explained exactly why she believes Trump may be tempted back onto the debate stage.

“Listen, if Kamala Harris sees a bump in the polls from her performance in the debate, where I think most folks think that she won, I could see a world where in a couple of weeks Donald Trump actually says, ‘I challenge her to a debate,’” Griffin reasoned.

She added that Trump will “likely say that he wants it to be on a favorable network, he’ll likely ask for it to be certain moderators, but I could see him thinking, if things get a little bit tighter in the final eight weeks stretch, he might need a big moment to remain competitive against her.”