Kamala Harris would face Donald Trump in the general election on November 5.
Washington:
Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris has rejected her Republican rival Donald Trump’s offer to shift the presidential debate to the Fox News channel, the media reported on Sunday.
Trump, 78, and President Joe Biden — then in the running for the White House — agreed in May to participate in two presidential debates. The first was in June, hosted by CNN, and the second, hosted by ABC News, was scheduled for September 10.
Biden withdrew from the race last month, after which Vice President Harris, who is of Indian and African descent, was declared the ruling Democratic Party’s 2024 presidential candidate after winning enough votes from Democratic delegates during a virtual roll call.
On Saturday, Trump said he has accepted an offer from Fox News to hold a debate with Vice President Harris on September 4, deviating from the original plan, CBS News reported.
“I have arranged with FoxNews to debate Kamala Harris on Wednesday, September 4. The debate was previously scheduled against Sleepy Joe Biden on ABC, but has been canceled because Biden will no longer be a participant, and I am in a lawsuit against ABC Network. and George Slopadopoulos, creating a conflict of interest,” he said.
Meanwhile, Harris turned to X to reject Trump’s debate offer on Fox News.
“It’s interesting how ‘any time, any place’ becomes ‘one specific time, one specific safe space.’ I will be there on September 10, as he agreed. I hope to see him there,” Harris said.
The Harris campaign also said they will stick to the original plan for an ABC News debate.
It said that “Donald Trump is getting scared” in hopes that Fox News will “bail him out of the debate” he had already agreed to with ABC News, the report said.
“He should stop playing games and report to the debate he has already committed to on September 10,” the report quoted Michael Tyler, Harris’ campaign director, as saying.
“The vice president will be there one way or another to take the opportunity to speak to a national prime-time audience,” Tyler said, adding that the campaign is open to further debates, but only after both campaigns have already agreed. occurs.
Last month, Harris challenged Trump to a debate, pushing him to say everything he “had to say to her face.”
Harris would face Trump in the general election on November 5.
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