Former President Donald Trump announced on his social media platform TruthSocial that the first debate with Kamala Harris on Fox News will take place in Harrisburg.
Shortly after midnight on Saturday, he posted that the debate would take place on Wednesday, September 4. However, he did not specify the exact location.
According to him, further events will take place on September 10 in Philadelphia (ABC) and on September 25 in Michigan (NBC).
The Harris team responded to Newsweek via email on Sunday morning, indicating that it had only agreed to the ABC debate.
“We are pleased that Trump has finally agreed to debate the Vice President on ABC after previously attempting to back out. We are open to another debate and will continue those conversations. But to be clear, any further debate would be contingent on Trump actually showing up on September 10. We are not playing his games,” a Harris campaign official told Newsweek.
Here is the Trump post according to Truth Social:
The first debate featuring Kamala Harris, President of the United States of America, will be on September 4, 2024 on FoxNews LIVE from beautiful Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. The second debate will be on September 10, 2024 on Fake News ABC, home of George Slopadopoulos, and moderated by David Muir at Independence Hall in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The third debate will be on September 25, 2024 on NBC in Grand Rapids, Michigan, and moderated by Lester Holt – details to follow. I look forward to seeing Kamala at all three debates! DJT.
Trump and President Joe Biden, who ended his re-election campaign last month, agreed in May to hold two debates: one on June 27 on CNN and another on September 10 to be broadcast on ABC News.
According to an August 4 report in the Rhode Island Current, Trump said in a July 23 call with reporters that while he was “willing to participate in more than one debate” with Harris, he was unsure whether he wanted to participate in the September 10 debate because he had agreed to “a debate with Joe Biden” and not Harris.
But just hours after the Democratic National Committee announced an ad campaign saying Republican nominee Trump was “afraid” of debating Vice President Kamala Harris, the former president said in an Aug. 2 social media post that he plans to debate on Fox News in Pennsylvania on Sept. 4 in front of a “FULL AUDIENCE in the arena.”
Less than a week later, on August 8, Trump said during a press conference that he would participate in the September 10 debate and that he had also agreed to debates on September 4 and 25.
All this debate about the debates preceded Trump’s latest post on Sunday morning.
