Former President Trump said Monday night that Vice President Kamala Harris’ team told his campaign that she would not participate in a Sept. 4 Fox News presidential debate.
The proposed debate would have been held in Pennsylvania and moderated by Fox News anchors Bret Baier and Martha MacCallum.
“I’m not surprised by this development because I feel she knows it’s very difficult, at best, for her to defend her record-setting Flip-Flopping on absolutely everything she once believed in, including her statements that THERE WILL BE NO FRACKING IN PENNSYLVANIA and her HORRIBLE performance on the border,” Trump wrote on his Truth Social social media platform.
TRUMP, HARRIS CANCELED FOR PRESIDENTIAL DEBATE ON ABC SEPTEMBER 10
Former President Trump said Vice President Kamala Harris has declined to participate in a Sept. 4 Fox News presidential debate. (Getty Images)
The former president had initially been reluctant to debate Harris after President Biden suspended his re-election campaign because she was not the Democratic Party’s official nominee before later agreeing to debate her once she secured the party’s nomination for president.
Trump and Harris have both confirmed they would participate in a Sept. 10 debate on ABC News. Trump previously said he also agreed to a Sept. 25 debate on NBC News.
The Harris campaign has said it would consider a second presidential debate in October. Both campaigns have also agreed to a vice presidential debate on CBS News on Oct. 1 between Minnesota’s Democratic Governor Tim Walz and Ohio’s Republican Sen. JD Vance.
TRUMP AGREES TO DEBATE KAMALA HARRIS ON FOX NEWS
Trump and Harris have both confirmed they would participate in a Sept. 10 debate on ABC News. (Michael M. Santiago/Getty Images)
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“Voters deserve to see the candidates for the highest office in the land share their competing visions for our future,” Harris campaign communications director Michael Tyler said in a statement last week. “The more they play games, the more unsafe and unscrupulous Trump and Vance reveal themselves to be to the American people. Those games end now.”
Instead of Fox News DebateTrump says he will attend a town hall in Pennsylvania with Fox News host Sean Hannity.