Former President Donald Trump said on social media late Friday that he’s agreed with Fox News to take part in a Sept. 4 presidential debate against Democrat Kamala Harris , before suggesting that the vice president hasn’t OK’d such a faceoff.
“If for any reason Kamala is unwilling or unable to debate on that date, I have agreed with Fox to do a major Town Hall on the same September 4th evening,” the Republican presidential nominee wrote in a since-deleted post on his Truth Social platform.
Trump — who has pushed for the next debate to take place on Fox News after Harris took President Joe Biden’s spot at the top of the Democratic ticket — later reposted his debate message on Truth Social, but without the talk of a town hall-style event.
Donald Trump discusses a Fox News debate on Truth Social.
In recent days Trump has questioned why he should debate Harris, and he was noncommittal about facing her in a Sept. 10 event on ABC News that he and Biden had signed onto before the president dropped his reelection bid.
Harris, who secured enough support from Democratic convention delegates to become her party’s presumptive nominee Friday, has said that she’d take Biden’s place in the Sept. 10 event and has emphasized that she’s “ready” to debate Trump.
The Republican nominee wrote on Friday that the ABC News debate has been “terminated in that Biden will no longer be a participant.” He also cited an ongoing lawsuit against the network as a reason for the change, despite the fact that Trump was already engaged in litigation with ABC News in May when he agreed to the faceoff.
Harris had told an Atlanta crowd Tuesday that she hoped Trump would “reconsider” meeting her on the debate stage.
“As the saying goes, if you’ve got something to say, say it to my face,” Harris said at a campaign rally.
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