Vice President Kamala Harris has agreed to debate former President Donald Trump, but it some people believe that it just shows her cowardice.
The reason is that the former president challenged her to three debates, but the well-scripted and frequently robotic Harris has only agreed to the one on ABC.
“I think it’s very important to have debates, and we’ve agreed with Fox on a date of September 4. We’ve agreed with NBC. Fairly full agreement subject to them on September 10. And we’ve agreed with ABC on September 25,” the former president said during a press event.
The campaign later corrected the dates and confirmed that they are September 4 with Fox News and September 10 with ABC and September 25 with NBC.
“The other side has to agree to the terms. They may or may not agree. I don’t know if they’re going to agree. (Harris) hasn’t done an interview. She can’t do an interview. She’s barely competent, and she can’t do an interview, I look forward to the debates because I think we have to set the record straight,” he said.
But when asked by reporters about additional debates other than the ABC debate she previously agreed to she would not commit.
“I’m glad that he’s finally agreed to a debate on September 10th. I’m looking forward to it, and I hope he shows up,” she said to the press.
“I’m happy to have that conversation about an additional debate for after September 10th,” she said.
Before the former president committed to the ABC debate Harris campaign communications director Michael Tyler would also not commit to more than one debate.
“The Vice President will be there one way or the other to take the opportunity to speak to a prime time national audience,” he said of the ABC debate. “We’re happy to discuss further debates after the one both campaigns have already agreed to.”
On Thursday when she spoke to NBC News Harris would not commit, or even talk about, more than the ABC debate.
“I am looking forward to debating Donald Trump and we have a date of September 10th. I hear he’s finally committed to it and I’m looking forward to it,” she said.
Initially, Trump eagerly anticipated his second debate with Biden on ABC, which he readily accepted in May. But he hinted he could opt to skip it in comments earlier this month after Biden essentially passed the torch to his vice president, though she got blown out of the Democratic primaries in 2020 and Biden received all the primary votes this year.
ABC News announced that David Muir and Linsey Davis will serve as moderators for the upcoming debate.
Harris took a few questions from reporters following a Michigan campaign event on Thursday. She said her team is working out a date for her to hold a full-blown press conference, which would be her first since Biden essentially anointed her the party’s nominee.
An insider with Harris’s team stated on Thursday night that the vice president is not against having more debates, according to ABC News senior White House correspondent Selina Wang. The insider claims that those discussions are “contingent on Trump showing up” on September 10.
The battle over debates comes as long-time Democratic strategist James Carville lashed out at Harris for repeatedly deferring to the far-left faction of the party, which he says will cost her dearly in November.
The former adviser to then-President Bill Clinton made his remarks just days before Harris’ on Tuesday selected Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz as her running mate. Walz is an uber-left-wing ‘progressive’ who instantly came under assault by conservatives for his record in the state, beginning with his refusal to immediately and decisively deal with the George Floyd-inspired rioting that destroyed a significant portion of Minneapolis in the spring and summer of 2020.
