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Republican candidate Donald Trump’s (L) inflammatory comments marked an escalation of his vitriol against US Vice-President Kamala Harris. (Image: AFP/File)
“I have agreed with FoxNews to debate Kamala Harris on Wednesday, September 4th,” Trump wrote on his Truth Social platform
Republican presidential candidate and former US president Donald Trump said on Friday that he had agreed with Fox News to debate Democratic Vice President Kamala Harris on September 4.
“I have agreed with FoxNews to debate Kamala Harris on Wednesday, September 4th. The Debate was previously scheduled against Sleepy Joe Biden on ABC, but has been terminated in that Biden will no longer be a participant, and I am in litigation against ABC Network and George Slopadopoulos, thereby creating a conflict of interest,” Trump wrote on his Truth Social platform.
I have agreed with FoxNews to debate Kamala Harris on Wednesday, September 4th. The Debate was previously scheduled against Sleepy Joe Biden on ABC, but has been terminated in that Biden will no longer be a participant, and I am in litigation against ABC Network and George…— Donald J. Trump Posts From His Truth Social (@TrumpDailyPosts) August 3, 2024
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“The FoxNews Debate will be held in the Great Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, at a site in an area to be determined. The Moderators of the Debate will be Bret Baier and Martha MacCallum, and the Rules will be similar to the Rules of my Debate with Sleepy Joe, who has been treated horribly by his Party – BUT WITH A FULL ARENA AUDIENCE,” he said while referencing US President Joe Biden.
Harris had responded last month that she was “ready” after Fox News proposed the presidential debate between the two candidates on Sept. 17. After Biden dropped out of the race on July 21 and backed Harris, Trump said he would not debate her because she was not the official candidate.
The Trump Campaign attacked Harris after she became the Democratic Party’s presidential nominee on Friday. “Kamala Harris — the least popular vice president in modern US history — has just officially been installed as the presumptive Democrat nominee for president without a single vote cast in her name,” the Trump campaign said.
“In a process more reminiscent of communist China, Democrat elites deposed their previous nominee when their coverup of his decline was no longer tenable, then coronated Kamala in the least democratic way possible,” it said. The remarks by the Trump Campaign were made on Friday, hours after the Indian American leader was elected as the Democratic Party’s candidate for the November 5th general elections. “Democrats are the real threat to democracy,” the Trump Campaign said.
