On Friday, CNN’s Van Jones suggested that former President Trump would probably perform better if he participated in a second debate with Vice President Kamala Harris.

Trump declared on Truth Social Thursday that he would not debate Harris again, despite her campaign’s request for an October rematch following their Tuesday debate. On “CNN News Central,” Jones mentioned that Trump might be a more formidable opponent in a second debate, but he also acknowledged that Harris is consistently enhancing her communication skills.

“She wins either way. She can just call him a chicken all day and talk about that she whooped him … and he has to pretend that he won when everybody knows he lost. If she debates him again, he will be a different guy. He usually screws up the first debate and gets better in the second debate,” Jones said. “I think he underestimated her. I think he had a bunch of nut jobs around him on his plane, getting him all psyched up about eating dogs and all kind of crazy stuff. And so when he got there, he was not in the right mindset and she whooped him. I think he doesn’t like losing and I think he knows he lost and I think if he does come back, he’s going to be much more formidable, but also Kamala Harris is getting better every single day, every time she touches the microphone, she gets better. Every speech is better … She was better on the debate stage than almost anybody who’s been on a debate stage. She just whooped him, and Donald Trump is the Pac-Man of politics. He ate through 16 Republican governors, senators, like it was nothing, and she was the matador that stopped the bull.”

ABC News debate moderators Linsey Davis and David Muir have faced criticism for fact-checking Trump multiple times while letting Harris make unchallenged false statements.

According to polls from CNN and YouGov, over 20% more viewers believed Harris won the debate compared to Trump. Despite this, Trump claimed in a Thursday post that “polls clearly show” he was the winner, and on Wednesday, he shared screenshots of certain polls indicating that viewers thought he prevailed.

Trump had initially proposed three debates with Harris, but the vice president only agreed to the one hosted by ABC News.