Trump Agrees To Debate Harris On Fox News, Backs Out Of ABC Debate

August 3, 2024

Republican presidential candidate and former President Donald J. Trump holds his first public campaign rally with vice presidential candidate Senator J.D. Vance (R-Ohio) (not pictured) at Van Andel Arena in Grand Rapids, Michigan, on July 20, 2024. This is also Trump’s first public rally since he was shot in the ear during an assassination attempt in Pennsylvania on July 13. Photo by Bill Pagliano/Getty Images)

OAN Staff Avril Elfi
Saturday, August 3, 2024 11:20 AM

Former President Donald Trump announced that he has agreed to debate Vice President Kamala Harris. Fox News Instead of A.B.C..

On Friday, Trump said: A.B.C. He accepted an offer from Fox News to debate Harris, with the debate scheduled for September 4th.^Number.

Trump said that when Joe Biden was the front-runner for the Democratic nomination, A.B.C. The debate had been agreed upon, but “was terminated when Biden chose not to participate.”

In addition, 45^Number The president revealed that a defamation lawsuit is ongoing. A.B.C. and the network’s anchor George Stephanopoulos. The lawsuit was filed months ago, when Trump first agreed to debate Biden on the network earlier this summer.

This comes days after Biden dropped out of the race and endorsed Harris. Fox News In September, the company formally invited Trump and Harris to debate on its network.

Trump accepted the network’s offer to use Martha MacCallum and Bret Baier as hosts for his “Truth Social” posts.

“I have agreed with Fox News to debate Kamala Harris on Wednesday, September 4th,” Trump wrote on his social media platform, Truth Social. “The debate was previously scheduled with Sleepy Joe Biden on ABC but has been canceled due to Biden no longer participating and my ongoing litigation against the ABC network and George Slopadopolos creating a conflict of interest.”

Harris responded to x’s post, “Interesting how ‘anytime, anywhere’ becomes ‘specific time, specific safe place.’ I’ll be there on September 10th.”^NumberAs he agreed. I hope to see him there.”

It’s interesting how “anytime, anywhere” becomes “specific times, specific safe spaces.”

As he agreed, I will be there on September 10th and I hope to see him there. https://t.co/zqng89X8QD

— Kamala Harris (@KamalaHarris) August 3, 2024

Trump had previously said he would not debate Harris because she was no longer the party’s official candidate after Biden dropped out of the race. But on Friday, Harris managed to gather enough delegates to be officially nominated by the party.

“As we all know, the Democrats unconstitutionally elected a candidate who was found defeated and then unceremoniously replaced him with a new candidate,” Trump wrote. “This is unprecedented and a threat to our democracy, but I fully accept the outcome of this ‘coup’ and am prepared to replace Joe with crazy Kamala Harris on the debate stage.”

“I spent hundreds of millions of dollars, time and effort fighting Joe, and then when I won the debate, they threw a new candidate into the ring. It’s not fair, but that’s the way it is!,” he continued. “But even though the candidates are different, their bad policies are the same, and this will be made crystal clear at the September 4 debate. I look forward to meeting and debating Kamala Harris on September 4th.”^NumberThis date is convenient and appropriate in that it falls just before September 6th.^Number Early voting for the 2024 Presidential Election has begun. We look forward to seeing you all on September 4th.^Numberin the great Commonwealth of Pennsylvania!

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