Vice President Kamala Harris has accepted just one of three debate requests from former President Donald Trump after weeks of accusing him of ducking.
On Thursday afternoon, former President Trump announced that he had agreed to three debates with Vice President Harris this fall.
“All of that being said, I think it’s very important to have debates. And we’ve agreed with Fox on a date of September 4th. We’ve agreed with NBC, fairly full agreement subject to them, on September 10th. And we’ve agreed with ABC on September 25th. So we have those three dates. So we have September 4th, September 10th, and September 25th,” Trump said during a press conference at Mar-A-Lago.
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“We have spoken to the heads of the network, and it’s all been confirmed, other than some fairly minor details. Audience, some location, which city would we put it into, but all things that will be settled very easily, very, I think it will be very easy. The other side has to agree to the terms. They may or may not agree.”
Harris ultimately agreed to just one of three debate challenges via X post. “I hear that Donald Trump has finally committed to debating me on September 10,” she wrote. “I look forward to that.”
Harris had been accusing Trump of ducking a debate for days even though the former president agreed to a debate with her just last week. The vice president was urging Trump to honor terms of the debate he had agreed to with President Biden, though the Trump Campaign stated that Harris would have to negotiate their own debate after she was selected in a backroom deal as opposed to a primary process.
It is unclear whether the debate will have any significant deviations from the CNN debate between Trump and Biden that took place back in June. The CNN debate was filmed in the network’s studios in Atlanta, away from a studio audience, and included a feature that muted each candidate’s microphone when the other was speaking.
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