Following a disappointing performance during Tuesday night’s ABC News presidential debate, Republican nominee Donald Trump announced he will not engage in any more debates with Democratic candidate Vice President Kamala Harris ahead of the Nov. 5 election. In a post on his social media platform Thursday, Trump made his stance clear.

While Trump proposed a debate hosted by NBC News on September 25, Harris’ camp expressed interest in an October debate, with Fox News also offering to oversee it. Trump, however, firmly rejected the idea of further debates, claiming victory in the recent encounter despite preliminary polls indicating that Harris may have outperformed him. He likened Harris’ request for a rematch to that of a boxer seeking to regain lost glory.

“When a prizefighter loses a fight, the first words out of his mouth are, ‘I WANT A REMATCH,’” Trump asserted in his statement. He emphasized that the polls indicated his win over Harris, referring to her as “Comrade Kamala Harris, the Democrats’ Radical Left Candidate,” and urged her to focus on her responsibilities over the past four years instead.

Despite Trump’s announcement, Harris tweeted shortly after, reiterating her desire for another debate. “We owe it to the voters to have another debate,” she stated, referencing their recent clash.

According to an average of three national polls compiled by 538, about 57% of respondents believed Harris emerged victorious, whereas 34% sided with Trump, including responses from a Republican-sponsored poll. In the aftermath of the debate, Trump and his allies accused the ABC News moderators, David Muir and Linsey Davis, of bias favoring Harris.

Assertions were made regarding the moderators’ interventions, which fact-checked Trump on claims about issues such as infanticide and migrant narratives, while failing to challenge Harris on her arguments. Meanwhile, a separate debate is scheduled between vice presidential nominees U.S. Sen. J.D. Vance of Ohio and Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz on October 1 in New York City.

Trump previously participated in a debate against President Joe Biden in June, a performance that contributed to Biden’s subsequent withdrawal from the race, leading to Harris’ candidacy a few weeks later.