Posted on 08/03/2024 3:11:19 PM PDT by where's_the_Outrage?
CHAPIN, S.C. (AP) — Donald Trump says he is pulling out of a scheduled September debate with Vice President Kamala Harris on ABC and wants them to face off on Fox News, making it increasingly unlikely that the candidates will confront each other on stage before the November election.
In a series of Truth Social posts late Friday, the Republican nominee and former president said his agreement to a Sept. 10 debate on ABC “has been terminated" because he will no longer face Democratic President Joe Biden, who ended his campaign last month after a disastrous performance in their first debate.
Trump now says he will appear on Fox News on Sept. 4 in Pennsylvania with rules that he called “similar” to his debate with Biden, but with a full audience instead of a mostly empty studio. Trump said that if Harris, the likely Democratic nominee, does not agree to the new network and date, he will do a “major Town Hall” with Fox News. Michael Tyler, a Harris spokesperson, said Trump “is running scared and trying to back out of the debate he already agreed to and running straight to Fox News to bail him out.”
It was not immediately clear whether ABC would turn its Sept. 10 event into a Harris town hall in Trump's absence. Tyler said Harris is committed to the time slot and would appear “one way or the other to take the opportunity to speak to a prime time national audience.”
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The ABC debate was with Biden, he could still debate Biden if they want. But the debate with Harris is on Fox.
ABC is Disney.
They will give Kamala every advantage in the book and not in the book. What is the incentive to walk face first into a trap?
Exactly. Biden is more than welcome to show up and debate Trump again if his handlers let him. The terms were agreed upon debating the democrat president candidate, Joe Biden, and Trump. No longer the same person running through the office.
Exactly. They’re all saying Trump was afraid to debate Harris, schedules a debate, then Harris is basically said she’s not gonna show up. Who is afraid of who?
Fox probably won’t give kameltoe the questions and answers ahead of time like other stations are prone to do.
The NPC's are still saying it. They have been given their talking points, so no subsequent facts can stop them.
Trump is setting her up. I doubt he really wants an audience...He’s tired of the Dems controlling these debates. She’s gonna have to fold....and I’m betting she’s one cr***y debater. She sounds like an 6th grade Valedictorian.
No, he’s skipping the September debate with Biden ...
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Yes, simple
His debate contract was with Joe Biden.
J o e B I d e n
WHERE HAVE WE SEEN THIS MOVIE BEFORE?
The spin I’m hearing from her defenders is “well, he scheduled it with the Biden-Harris CAMPAIGN so…”
Wasn’t the ABC debate with Bidet? Big difference.
Thank you
Exactly Trump NEVER ever was scheduled to debate Kamala
Au Contraire mon ami, Fox actually hired the woman who gave the questions to Hillary, like it was no big deal.
Fox is just the least evil, arguably.
It seems that the “press” harpies REALLY wanted Trump to agree to debate whoever they want, before Harris is even “installed” by the New Democracy.
Maybe they could just start shooting at him. They’re running out of options.
She won’t fold because she thinks she’s winning.
You mean like these examples? (I think you'll find these humorous.)
That lady tried to ambush him and totally failed. Trump feeds off their hostility. He'd do the same thing to Kamala at the ABC debate.
The only reason Trump agreed to debate on ABC is because Biden is senile. But he's no longer running for President. So for the same rules to apply to Kamala, that's just cheating.
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