Vice President Kamala Harris stated Thursday she’s able to debate Donald Trump in September and accused him of laying the groundwork to get out of it.
“I am ready to debate Donald Trump,” she informed a gaggle of reporters after touchdown at Joint Base Andrews in Maryland.
“I have agreed to the previously agreed-upon Sept. 10 debate. He agreed to that previously. Now it appears he’s backpedaling, but I’m ready,” she stated. “I think the voters deserve to see the split screen that exists in this race on a debate stage.”
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That is the primary time Harris, now the Democrats’ presumed nominee for president, has confirmed her participation within the debate on ABC Information, which was scheduled when Joe Biden was nonetheless the presumptive nominee.
On Sunday, when Biden ended his marketing campaign and endorsed Harris, an irate Trump took problem with the talk he’d agreed to months in the past.
“Now that Joe has, not surprisingly, has quit the race, I think the Debate, with whomever the Radical Left Democrats choose, should be held on FoxNews, rather than very biased ABC,” Trump wrote on his Reality Social platform. “Thank you!”
He stated earlier this week he “absolutely” desires to debate Harris however then returned to bashing ABC Information, calling it “among the absolute WORST in the business.”
“ABC, the home of George Slopadopolus, is not worthy of holding a Debate, of which I hope there will be many!” he stated, utilizing an insult to seek advice from the community host George Stephanopoulos.
Fox Information on Wednesday proposed a Sept. 17 debate.
