Donald Trump Proposes Debate With Kamala Harris On Sept. 4 In Pennsylvania On Fox News

Former President Donald Trump announced on social media that he had agreed with Fox News to debate Vice President Kamala Harris on September 4. Harris immediately dismissed the idea, with her campaign saying Trump should “stop playing games.”

The debate will take place in Pennsylvania in front of a live audience moderated by Fox News hosts Bret Baier and Martha MacCallum, Trump said on his Truth Social website delayed Friday. The Republican candidate said the exact location of the debate has not yet been determined.

Harris responded Saturday to X, formerly on Twitter: “Interesting how ‘anytime, anywhere’ becomes ‘one specific time, one specific safe space. I’ll be there on 9/10, like he agreed to be. Hope to see him there.'”

Before President Joe Biden dropped his re-election bid, he scheduled a debate with Trump on ABC on Sept. 10. Biden endorsed Harris, who is now the presumptive Democratic nominee.

Trump was undecided about debating Harris. And the Fox debate is pretty uncertain.

Harris’ campaign said Saturday that the former president “is terrified and trying to back out of a debate he already agreed to and is running straight to Fox News to save it. He needs to stop playing games and show up at the debate he already committed to on September 10th.”

Campaign officials said the vice president “will be there either way” to address a national audience during prime time.

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IN next postTrump said: “Kamala Harris does not have the mental capacity to have a REAL debate with me scheduled for September 4th in Pennsylvania. … I either see her on September 4th or not at all.”

The Fox News debate would have been Trump’s second presidential debate and the first to pit Harris against Trump. Biden’s poor showing in the first debate, on June 27, helped end his reelection campaign.

David Plouffe, former senior adviser to President Barack Obama who is currently advising the harris campaigncalled Trump a “coward” for “withdrawing from a debate he agreed to.”

“He seems to be only comfortable in a cocoon,” Plouffe told X, “asking his happy place, Fox, to host a Trump rally and call it a debate. Maybe he can only handle a debate with someone his own age.”