Donald Trump Commits to Debating Kamala Harris (maybe twice)

Newsweak ^ | 7/23/24 | Dan Gooding, Billal Rahman

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Former President Donald Trump said Tuesday that he was open to debating Vice President Kamala Harris, committing for the first time to at least one debate with the new presumptive Democratic nominee for president as he attacked her record on immigration and border security.

As Harris held her first official campaign event, Trump dialed into a press call alongside former and current border patrol union representatives, calling out the VP for her role as "border czar".

At the same time, Republicans in Congress sought to introduce a resolution condemning Harris for her work on the border during the Biden administration, suggesting that immigration will be a galvanizing line of attack should Harris become the official nominee.

A recent poll shows Trump is seen as better than Harris at handling immigration by a margin of 15 points.

"She's the same as Biden, [but] more radical," Trump told reporters on the call. "She's a radical person and this country doesn't want a radical left person to destroy it. She's far more radical than he is. She wants open borders. She wants things that nobody wants."

After criticizing Harris' stance on immigration, Trump said he wants to face her on the debate stage.

"I would be willing to do more than one debate, actually," the Republican candidate said. He had previously pushed for the second presidential debate — scheduled for September with ABC News as the host when President Biden was still the presumptive nominee — to be changed to a different network over what he perceived to be bias at ABC.

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Agree

Trump is giving Kumala free publicity and exposure as an equally qualified serious potus candidate.

Hopefully he’ll control his too-often verbal incontinence about even mentioning her much less name-calling

[willk]

There is no benefit to debating her.