Vice President Kamala Harris has agreed to discuss former President Donald Trump’s final choice of running mate.
Harris accepted an invitation to debate Trump’s eventual vice presidential choice over the summer, offering July 23 and August 13 as options.
Trump is expected to announce his running mate at the Republican convention, which begins on July 15th.
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President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris return to the Oval Office after an event in the White House Rose Garden in Washington, D.C. (Drew Angerer/Getty Images)
Regarding the selection of his running mate, President Trump said, “I can’t say anything is 100% certain, but we’re getting pretty close.” “We’re going to do it in Milwaukee. We’re going to have a good time.”
A Biden campaign official told Politico: “We are hopeful that the Trump campaign will accept one of these dates so we can set up a full debate schedule for this campaign.”
The debate will be broadcast by CBS News and hosted within the network’s studios.
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Former President Donald Trump headlines the Republican National Committee’s spring donor retreat in Palm Beach, Florida. (Donald Trump 2024 Campaign)
In a letter obtained by FOX News Digital, the Biden-Harris campaign proposed holding the first debate in late June. President Trump’s New York criminal trial It is likely to end after Biden returns from talks with world leaders at the G7 summit.
A second presidential debate is scheduled to be held in September before early voting begins.
The Biden and Harris campaigns called for the debate to be held inside a television studio and for microphones to be automatically disconnected after a speaker’s time limit expires.
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Donald Trump debates Joe Biden during the first US presidential debate of 2020 in Cleveland, Ohio. (Getty Images)
The letter also calls for debates to include only the candidates and the moderators, eliminating any “in-person audience with noisy or disruptive partisans or donors” that President Trump is baiting. Ta.
They also want the debate to be held without the participation of Robert F. Kennedy Jr. or any other independent or third-party candidates.
Fox News Digital’s Brooke Singman and Danielle Wallace contributed to this report.
