At first Donald Trump was reluctant. But now he has announced that he wants to appear in front of the cameras for a duel with the Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris.
Republican US presidential candidate Donald Trump is ready for a TV debate with his Democratic rival Kamala Harris. “I have agreed with Fox News to debate Kamala Harris on Wednesday, September 4th,” Trump wrote on his online platform Truth Social. Harris had already agreed to a TV debate with Trump.
Trump and President Joe Biden had originally agreed to two debates, the second of which was to take place on September 10. Biden’s disastrous performance in the first TV debate on June 27 triggered the political avalanche that ultimately led to the Democrat’s withdrawal from the presidential campaign and paved the way for Harris.
Donald Trump sets conditions for TV duel with Kamala Harris
Trump then wrote that the debate against Biden was actually scheduled to take place on ABC. However, since Biden will no longer be participating and he is conducting a legal battle against ABC Network, a conflict of interest arises. The Fox News debate will take place in the state of Pennsylvania at a location yet to be determined. The moderators will be Bret Baier and Martha MacCallum. “The rules will be similar to the rules of my debate with Sleepy Joe, who was treated terribly by his party – BUT WITH AN AUDIENCE IN A FULL ARENA!”
At the beginning of the week, Trump did not give a direct answer to the question on Fox News whether he would be willing to take part in a televised debate with Harris. He would “probably” face such a duel, Trump said. But there are also arguments for not doing so. At that time, however, Harris had not yet been nominated as a candidate by her party. On Friday, her party announced that it had secured the necessary majority of delegate votes for her party’s presidential nomination in an online vote.
Harris, on the other hand, had already declared her willingness to take part in the TV debate a week ago. “I’m ready. Let’s go,” the 59-year-old wrote on the online platform X. Voters deserve to see both candidates on the same stage. On July 21, incumbent Joe Biden announced that he would not run in the US presidential election on November 5.
