On Friday’s broadcast of MSNBC’s “Morning Joe,” Democratic National Committee Chairman Jaime Harrison responded to a question about whether the Harris-Waltz campaign should accept former President Donald Trump’s offer of three debates, saying it will be interesting to see if Trump takes part in the ABC debates because he is afraid of debating 2024 Democratic presidential candidate Vice President Kamala Harris.
NBC News national affairs analyst John Heilemann asked.[T]He discusses [are] Now it’s an open question. Aside from Trump’s incoherent comments yesterday, the only news he put out yesterday was that he’s accepted, gone back on accepting, the idea that he would participate in the previously scheduled ABC debate with Joe Biden. Apparently, he will be in that debate. And Kamala Harris was basically saying yesterday, great, glad to hear that, that’s what I wanted to do. But he continues to suggest that he should also do a debate on Fox News prior to that, and then he says that he should also do a debate that he says is almost fully negotiated with NBC for later in September. So I’m curious what you think about the two additional debates that Donald Trump is proposing, in addition to what the Harris campaign has already done, which is to say, that he will participate in the previously scheduled ABC debate. Three debates, by the way, is the normal number that you see in a presidential election. That’s what the Commission on Presidential Debates has typically done for the past few years. So do you think that the Harris campaign should accept these proposals, or do you think they should make a counter-proposal, or do you think they should do something else?
Harrison responded: “Well, Donald Trump changes his mind like the weather, so what we’ll have to see is — I think the vice president said this yesterday — let’s see if he actually shows up to the debate, the ABC debate in September. I don’t know if he’ll actually show up. I think he’s terrified of debating with the vice president’s wife because he sees how strong she is, how focused she is and how intent she is on building a case against him.”
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