New York [US], August 9 (ANI): Republican nominee Donald Trump is set to debate US Vice President Kamala Harris on American television network, ABC News on September 10, the former US President said.
Speaking with reporters from his Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida on Thursday, Trump said his campaign has agreed to three debates, to be hosted by Fox News, ABC News and NBC News. The September 10 debate to be hosted by ABC News is the only one in which the Harris campaign has also agreed to participate.
Harris confirmed in a post on X she’d see him in September at the ABC debate.
“ABC News will host qualifying presidential candidates to debate on September 10 on ABC. Vice President Harris and former President Trump have both confirmed they will attend the ABC debate,” the network said in a statement.
Trump had previously dropped out of the ABC News debate after President Joe Biden announced that he would not seek reelection.
“I think it’s very important to have debates, and we’ve agreed with Fox on a date of September 4. We’ve agreed with NBC. Fairly full agreement subject to them on September 10. And we’ve agreed with ABC on September 25,” the former president said as per a report in CNN.
Further Trump said, “The other side has to agree to the terms. They may or may not agree. I don’t know if they’re going to agree. (Harris) hasn’t done an interview. She can’t do an interview. She’s barely competent, and she can’t do an interview, I look forward to the debates because I think we have to set the record straight.”
Harris who was in Detroit for an event with the United Auto Workers said she would be “happy” to discuss a further debate.
“I’m glad that he’s finally agreed to a debate on September 10th. I’m looking forward to it, and I hope he shows up,” Harris told reporters in Detroit, according to CNN.
Meanwhile, Trump also said that CBS News would host a vice presidential debate next month and that his running mate, Ohio Senator JD Vance, has “really stepped up, he’s doing a fantastic job.”
Harris and her running mate Minnesota Governor Tim Walz have held rallies in the battleground states of Pennsylvania, Michigan and Wisconsin.
Trump had debated US President Biden in late June before the Biden announced his exit from the presidential race. (ANI)
US Presidential Election 2024: Trump says he has agreed to debate Harris three times in September
Washington DC [US], August 9 (ANI): Former US President Donald Trump on Thursday said he is open to debating Vice President Kamala Harris three times in September, ahead of the presidential election.
Speaking at his Mar-a-Lago resort, Trump confirmed he has accepted debate invitations from NBC News, Fox News, and ABC News.
“I think it’s very important to have debates,” Trump said while addressing a press conference, adding that he accepted invitations from NBC News, Fox News and ABC News.
Harris has accused Trump of “running scared” and trying to avoid the debate.
Trump had initially agreed to debate President Joe Biden and accepted ABC’s invitation in May.
However, after Biden withdrew from the race last month and Harris became the presumptive Democratic nominee, Trump implied he might not debate Harris on ABC.
When President Joe Biden was still running, his campaign and Trump‘s agreed to two debates: one with CNN on June 27 and another with ABC News on September 10.
But after Biden dropped out of the race and endorsed Harris, Trump began to waver on his commitment to participating.
Earlier, US President Joe Biden on Wednesday said he is not confident about a peaceful transfer of power if Republican Donald Trump loses the upcoming presidential election.
In a recent interview with US-based media house CBS News, the first after announcing his withdrawal from the Presidential race, Biden expressed doubts about a peaceful transfer of power and said, “If Trump loses, I’m not confident at all.”
Biden said that he is not confident about a peaceful transfer of power if Trump loses, as a rhetoric on the former President‘s comment that the only way he would lose is if “the election is stolen from him.”
“If Trump loses, I’m not confident at all. He means what he says. We don’t take him seriously. He means it, all the stuff about, ‘If we lose, there’ll be a bloodbath, it’ll have to be a stolen election,'” Biden said when asked if he was confident about the transfer of power in January 2025. (ANI
“Looking forward…,” Kamala Harris on Sept 10 debate with Donald Trump, does not confirm two other face-offs
Detroit [US], August 9 (ANI) US Vice President Kamala Harris is looking forward to a debate with the former US President and Republican nominee Donald Trump after the latter proposed that he wanted to face off with his Democratic rival twice more in the upcoming polls in November this year.
“Well, I’m glad that he’s finally agreed to a debate on Sept. 10,” Harris said while talking to reporters from the Detroit Metropolitan Wayne County Airport on Thursday (local time).
Harris’s post on X read,” I hear that Donald Trump has finally committed to debating me on September 10.”
“I look forward to it,” she said on her social media platform in connection with the upcoming prime-time debate on ABC News
“I’m glad that he’s finally agreed to a debate on September 10th. I’m looking forward to it, and I hope he shows up,” Harris told reporters in Detroit, according to CNN.
Harris, when asked by reporters about the two other debates did not give a confirmation.
“Happy to have that conversation,” she said .
Fox News host Jesse Watters said that the network is yet to hear from the Harris campaign on the September 4 date proposed by Trump for a debate with her.
Harris, who has not done a sit-down interview with a news organization since she launched her presidential campaign, said on Thursday that she has talked to her team and will get an interview scheduled before September.
“I’ve talked to my team. I want us to get an interview scheduled before the end of the month,” Harris told reporters on the tarmac in Michigan before she headed to Arizona.
Earlier, Trump in a press conference at his Mar-a-Lago Club on Thursday said, “I look forward to the debates because I think we have to set the record straight,” he said.
Trump’s campaign clarified the fomer president’s remarks to the press at Mar-a-Lago about the presidential debates with ABC network on September 10 as previously scheduled and one on NBC on September 25 and with Fox News on September 4.
The 90-minute face-off will likely take place in Philadelphia, a source familiar with the matter said cited CNN adding that ABC News anchors David Muir and Lynsey Davis will moderate the debate.
An ABC spokesperson told CNN on Thursday that the debate will be streamed will allow other networks to broadcast its September 10 presidential debate between Kamala Harris and Donald Trump.
During his news conference at Mar-a-Lago today, Trump criticized Harris for not sitting for an interview since she became the Democratic candidate.
“She hasn’t done an interview. She can’t do an interview. She’s barely competent,” Trump said adding “She’s not smart enough to do a news conference.” (ANI)
