Kamala Harris said that she has agreed to debate Donald Trump on September 10.
In May, the campaigns of Trump and President Joe Biden had accepted ABC News’ invite to debate on that date, in what would have been their second match up after the CNN event on June 27.
Harris told reporters today, “You have been asking me about the debate and I’ll tell you I’m ready to debate Donald Trump. I have agreed to the previously agreed upon September 10 debate. He agreed to that previously. Now, here he appears to be backpedaling, 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. Let’s go.”
There has been no official word on whether Trump will still accept that date. He has lately said that he would debate Harris, but wants to do so at a Fox News hosted event. He has been bashing ABC News as biased against him.
Fox News sent letters to both campaigns this week, proposing a Sept. 17 debate. But the network did not meet the criteria that the Biden campaign set out in May. They said that the host network should have hosted a 2016 Republican primary debate and a 2020 Democratic primary debate. That also would have excluded MSNBC.
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