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Trump suggests he could skip ABC News debate against Harris: ‘Stay tuned!’
Washington Examiner ^ | August 25, 2024 | Zach LaChance

Posted on 08/25/2024 10:08:41 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican

Former President Donald Trump suggested he may skip the Sept. 10 presidential debate against Vice President Kamala Harris hosted by ABC News.

In a Truth Social post on Sunday night, Trump said to “Stay tuned” after he laid out the reasons why he may skip the debate, which included Harris turning down debating on other news networks and significant criticism of ABC News’s anchors.

“I watched ABC FAKE NEWS this morning, both lightweight reporter Jonathan Carl’s(K?) ridiculous and biased interview of Tom Cotton (who was fantastic!), and their so-called Panel of Trump Haters, and I ask, why would I do the Debate against Kamala Harris on that network?” he said.

“Why did Harris turn down Fox, NBC, CBS, and even CNN? Stay tuned!!!” he added.

The post comes as Trump and Harris are still slated to debate on Sept. 10 at the National Constitution Center in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. It will be moderated by World News Tonight anchor David Muir and ABC News Live Prime anchor Linsey Davis.

Trump previously proposed three debates to Harris, including a Sept. 4 debate hosted by Fox News, a Sept. 10 debate hosted by ABC News, and a Sept. 25 debate hosted by NBC News. Harris agreed to the Sept. 10 debate, while proposing another one in October.

The Sept. 10 debate was a holdover from when President Joe Biden was still the Democratic nominee.

Trump pledged to do an event on Sept. 4 anyway after Harris declined the Fox News debate, which will be a “tele-town hall” with host Sean Hannity.

(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonexaminer.com ...


TOPICS: Front Page News; Government; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: abc; debate; donaldduck; jonathankarl; kamala; media; msm; tomcotton; trump; zachlachance
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1 posted on 08/25/2024 10:08:41 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican
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To: MinorityRepublican

Interesting.


2 posted on 08/25/2024 10:11:12 PM PDT by Fai Mao ( US government is run by pedophiles and Perverts for pedophiles and perverts.)
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To: MinorityRepublican

Trump has a point. Why go on the network wall to wall with Trump hating reporters, when Kamala couldn’t be bothered to. even consider debating on Fox News? Better he realizes this late than never.


3 posted on 08/25/2024 10:13:34 PM PDT by lee martell
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To: MinorityRepublican

Internal polls may be telling Trump he needn’t worry and not to give Commiela a platform for a three on 1 debate.


4 posted on 08/25/2024 10:14:24 PM PDT by Scott from the Left Coast (Peak crazy is almost here.)
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To: MinorityRepublican

I humbly suggest that Trump show up at the September 4 debate at Fox News, look around for Kamala and say that she is a no show. Trump should then spend the next 1 hour, 90 minutes, or 120 minutes (however long the Fox debate is suppose to be) answering questions from the moderators. At the end of the Fox debate, then announce that since Harris wasn’t at the September 4 debate, Trump won’t show up at the September 10 debate.


5 posted on 08/25/2024 10:16:20 PM PDT by convoter2016
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To: convoter2016

Agree....if she is a no show on the 4th...forget the 10th.


6 posted on 08/25/2024 10:18:29 PM PDT by Sacajaweau (mY)
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To: Fai Mao

Yes, it’s interesting. Trump scheduled the FOX debate first so that Harris could be the first one record to decline a debate. Trump would probably do a debate, even on ABC, if that was the only option, but he’s in the driver’s seat now that Kamala has already refused to debate him on FOX. What’s she going to do? come out with that “Trump’s afraid.
I’ll meet him anywhere, anytime” B.S.? That bluff has passed its expiration date.

Trump can and should hold out for an interview on one of the other networks. CNN might be the fairest of the lot, judging by Trump’s debate with Biden. And the more public Trump can make the negotiation, the better, because it will only highlight Harris’s unwillingness to engage.


7 posted on 08/25/2024 10:19:11 PM PDT by mbrfl
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To: Scott from the Left Coast
Internal polls may be telling Trump he needn’t worry and not to give Commiela a platform for a three on 1 debate.

If the polls were bad, Trump will have no choice but to debate.

So I guess it's a good sign.

8 posted on 08/25/2024 10:19:57 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican
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To: MinorityRepublican

Trump would debate the “moderators,” while Kamala would read scripted answers with assistance from the moderators.


9 posted on 08/25/2024 10:21:08 PM PDT by UnwashedPeasant (The pandemic we suffer from is not COVID. It is Marxist Democrat Leftism.)
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To: MinorityRepublican

This is actually an awesome idea.

There is nothing to gain for him to debate the ABC moderators while Kamala hides behind them.

She will then spend the next few weeks talking about Trump! As will the entire MSM


10 posted on 08/25/2024 10:24:12 PM PDT by NoLibZone ( Scary that a party can "run" a candidate that doesn't feel any need to campaign.)
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To: convoter2016

Very good idea. I like that.


11 posted on 08/25/2024 10:24:31 PM PDT by KittyKares
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To: MinorityRepublican

Good, it is a setup and if she won’t debate elsewhere then skip ABC


12 posted on 08/25/2024 10:28:31 PM PDT by TECTopcat
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To: MinorityRepublican

I think Trump’s poll numbers are looking good. But what he might be able to accomplish with a debate is the same thing that he accomplished when he debated Biden. It’s worth remembering that Trump was already starting to develop a wide lead over Biden before the debate. But what the debate accomplished was to make Biden’s incompetence so clear to everyone that no one would believe it if they tried to steal it again.

A total humiliation of Kamala on the debate stage might be able to achieve the same thing - i.e. make it impossible for the Democrats to get away with another steal because no one would believe she legitimately won.


13 posted on 08/25/2024 10:29:20 PM PDT by mbrfl
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To: mbrfl

Absolutely not.

There needs to stop being this marching around talking about how a debate makes him look good because she’s a moron blah blah blah.

If he is ahead THERE IS ZERO reason to risk anything happening in a debate that the MSM would jump on, replaying clips over and over. This opponent is not well known. There is no reason to provide her a forum to get better acquainted with the electorate.

STOP LOOKING TO BE ENTERTAINED. This is about winning. Nothing else. Winning.


14 posted on 08/25/2024 10:34:39 PM PDT by Owen
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To: Sacajaweau

Or say he won’t show up then show up.


15 posted on 08/25/2024 10:34:56 PM PDT by for-q-clinton (Cancel Culture IS fascism...Let's start calling it that!)
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To: mbrfl
A total humiliation of Kamala on the debate stage might be able to achieve the same thing - i.e. make it impossible for the Democrats to get away with another steal because no one would believe she legitimately won.

It might be worth it because the pressure is on Kamala Harris to appear competent. And we know that she's no Hillary Clinton.

16 posted on 08/25/2024 10:36:38 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican
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To: Owen
You got that right. I like your focus.

17 posted on 08/25/2024 10:53:50 PM PDT by Governor Dinwiddie (LORD, grant thy people grace to withstand the temptations of the world, the flesh, and the devil.)
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To: MinorityRepublican

As both DJT and RFK have pointed out, being an opposition candidate in a country like ours where the overwhelming portion of the media is aligned with the ruling party is very challenging. Kamala can turn down anything and everything regarding debates/interviews/town halls, and the media will run interference for her and gush about how this cackling, bitchy imbecile is George Washington, Abraham Lincoln, Margaret Thatcher and Barack Obama all rolled into one. Trump is basically in the position that the media will scream bloody murder and call him a coward if he turns down anything. It’s a helluva thing.


18 posted on 08/25/2024 11:05:44 PM PDT by irishjuggler
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To: lee martell
Trump has a point. Why go on the network wall to wall with Trump hating reporters, when Kamala couldn’t be bothered to.

If I were playing 4-d chess with Harris, I'd be thinking that Trump was setting up a big trap for Kamala here. Hear me out...

  1. Trump and Harris agree to a debate on Harris-friendly ABC as her first "coming out" party.

  2. Harris has been promising to either:
    • Have a sit-down interview or a press conference with reporters "by the end of the month," or...
    • Announce her plans to have a sit-down interview or a press conference with reporters "by the end of the month.
    • Either way, her surrogates have been planting the line that "Harris will engage with reporters, but in her own time... when she's ready..."

  3. Let's assume for the sake of argument that Harris was never going to sit for an interview or press conference, and instead was going to let the debate in friendly territory be her substitute for a press conference. Harris could plausibly tell reporters (and voters) "I already said everything that needs to be said in the debate with Donald Trump. I don't need to say it again to reporters."

  4. If President Trump now throws the ABC News debate into question, that will rob Harris of the cover of the debate as her excuse for avoiding a press conference. In the meantime, she's wasted precious time preparing for a press conference because she was preparing to debate Trump instead.

  5. If Harris tries to call Trump "afraid" to have a debate, Trump can reply with Harris being afraid to hold a press conference with reporters. Trump can say that Harris has been promising to have a press conference for longer than she's agreed to debate, so who's the one who's afraid here?

  6. Trump should insist that Harris hold the press conference first, because she hasn't stated her policies in the convention, she hasn't put her policies on her website, she hasn't explained her policies in interviews, and she hasn't defended her policies in a press conference with reporters.

  7. What is there for President Trump to debate, if Harris is thinking she's going to walz into the debate as an open-ended book and just attack Trump's positions while having stated none of her own in advance? What's the point of even showing up?
Then hammer Harris for trying to run an empty campaign that is based on nothing but attacks against Trump without standing up for anything of her own, and that he's not going to be a party to that.

Trump should say that the American people already know everything there is to know about Trump, and nothing at all about Harris. Then say that the reason that Harris has nothing to say is that there is nothing there. She's an empty suit that was propped up by the Democrats because they hid the true nature of Joe Biden from the American people, and Harris was front and center in that cover-up.

Trump should finish by saying, "Reject the Democrat scam, reject Harris, and vote to make American great again by electing Donald J. Trump for president!"

-PJ

19 posted on 08/25/2024 11:12:52 PM PDT by Political Junkie Too ( * LAAP = Left-wing Activist Agitprop Press (formerly known as the MSM))
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To: convoter2016

I agree.


20 posted on 08/25/2024 11:17:29 PM PDT by No name given ( Anonymous is who you’ll know me as)
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