Former President Donald Trump said late Friday night he will not participate in an ABC-hosted debate against Vice President Kamala Harris and proposed an alternative Fox News debate against Harris, whose campaign said the former president was “running scared” from a “debate he already agreed to.”
Trump proposed an alternative debate on Fox News. (Photo by Joel Angel Juarez for The Washington ... [+]
Trump said he won’t participate in the Sept. 10 debate on ABC because President Joe Biden will no longer be his opponent after bowing out of the election, and he also cited his defamation lawsuit against the network.
Trump said the Sept. 4 Fox News debate will have similar rules to the ones in his first debate with Biden in June, except it also would be televised in front of a “FULL ARENA AUDIENCE.”
Harris’ campaign said Trump was “running to Fox News to bail him out” of the planned ABC debate.
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