Vice President Kamala Harris falsely suggested that former President Donald Trump agreed to debate her in September and that he was now trying to back out of the debate.

“I’m ready to debate Donald Trump,” she told reporters. “I have agreed to the previously agreed upon September 10th debate, he agreed to that previously, now it appears he’s back-peddling.”

“But I’m ready, and I think the voters deserve to see the split screen that exists in this race on a debate stage and so I’m ready,” she added. “Let’s go.”

The claim is false because Trump never agreed to debate Harris on September 10th; he agreed to debate President Joe Biden, who has since dropped out of the race because of his disastrous June debate performance. The performance was do bad that it injected his cognitive decline into the mainstream discourse after the media and the Democrat Party tried to hide it and his poll numbers subsequently cratered.

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Trump said earlier this week that he was willing to have multiple debates with Harris, but he wants to move the debate off of ABC News because of how biased the network is.

However, following a CNN poll that was subsequently released that found that 73% of Democrat voters want someone else other than Harris to be the nominee, the Trump Campaign said that he now wants to wait to see who the party’s official nominee will be before the campaign agrees to anything.

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“Given the continued political chaos surrounding Crooked Joe Biden and the Democrat Party, general election debate details cannot be finalized until Democrats formally decide on their nominee,” the Trump Campaign said in a statement. “There is a strong sense by many in the Democrat Party – namely Barack Hussein Obama – that Kamala Harris is a Marxist fraud who cannot beat President Trump, and they are still holding out for someone ‘better.'”

“Therefore, it would be inappropriate to schedule things with Harris because Democrats very well could still change their minds,” the statement added.

Champagne sales for the first half of 2024 have dropped worldwide, and one industry executive thinks the reason is simply because there’s less joy in the world and a lack of “celebration.”

Speaking on a Tuesday earnings call, CFO Jean-Jacques Guiony — with luxury goods company LVMH (responsible for such brands as Dom Pérignon, Krug and Mercier) — said that people are just not in a celebratory mood, the New York Post noted.

“Champagne is quite linked with celebration, happiness, et cetera,” Guiony said.

“Maybe the current global situation, be it geopolitical or macroeconomic, does not lead people to cheer up and to open bottles of Champagne,” he added. “I don’t really know.”

The company said that in 2024, it had sold 15% fewer bottles of Champagne than the year prior over the same time period, the outlet noted.

Guiony said that while the Champagne industry has seen lower demand, especially in Europe, sales for still and sparkling wine for his company were up 16% over the same time period the year before, the Post noted.

Champagne shipments sink in opening half of 2024.

Champagne makers have called for a cut in the yield of grapes harvested in the region this year following the decline in shipments.https://t.co/lV2Zraz4Rq pic.twitter.com/gDrv54u7Tp

— Just Drinks (@Just_Drinks) July 22, 2024

David Chatillon, chairman of the Champagne Houses lobby, said in a statement issued by the producers association, the Comite Champagne (Champagne Committee, which represents more than 350 Champagne houses), that the uncertain economy is to blame for the poor sales, Reuters reported.

“The gloomy global geopolitical and economic situation, as well as generalized inflation, is weighing on household consumption,” Chatillon said.

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“Champagne also continues to suffer the consequences of overstocking by retailers in 2021 and 2022,” he added.

The committee said that shipments for Champagne are down 15.2% over the same period last year, totaling some 106.7 million bottles sent out, USA Today noted.

And with consumers holding tighter to their finances, buying a bottle of Champagne, which can run anywhere from a hundred dollars to a thousand, just might be more of a luxury than people can afford these days.

The Champagne Committee also pointed out in its statement that this year’s harvest has been affected by frosts and wet weather in the area, which lead to “increased mildew fungus attacks” on the most vital ingredient to making the bubbly celebratory drink, grapes, Reuters noted.

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