Former President Donald Trump said during a Thursday press conference that he has agreed to three debates with three different television networks in September and is awaiting Vice President Kamala Harris’s confirmation.
During the press conference at Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate, the Republican presidential nominee said he has agreed to a debate against Harris on Fox News on September 4, another debate on NBC on September 10 — which Trump described as “a fairly full agreement, subject to them” — and a third debate on ABC on September 25.
“We have spoken to the heads of the networks and it’s all been confirmed other than some fairly minor details,” Trump said.
“The other side has to agree to the terms,” he added, referring to the Harris campaign. “They may or may not agree. I don’t know. She hasn’t done an interview. She can’t do an interview. She’s barely competent. She can’t do an interview, but I look forward to the debates because we have to set the record straight.”
Harris has criticized Trump in recent weeks after the former president suggested he wanted to wait for Harris to be officially nominated before completely agreeing to debate her. Last week, Trump said he would “probably” debate Harris but added, “I can also make a case for not doing it.”
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Trump blasted Harris’ time as vice president overseeing the border crisis and her early exit from the 2020 Democratic primary. He also said that “the presidency was taken away” from Joe Biden, arguing, “He had the right to run and they took it away.”
“What they’ve done is pretty incredible,” he continued. “You would’ve thought they would’ve gone out to a vote, they would’ve had a primary system, they would’ve done something, but to just take it away from him like he was a child. … He had 14 million votes. [Harris] had no votes.”
After Biden dropped out on July 21 and passed the mantle to Harris, the vice president has yet to sit down for a major interview or hold a press conference. Instead, Harris and her running mate, Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, are on a multi-stop campaign tour to all seven battleground states.
