Kamala Harris says Trump ‘running scared’, as he drops ABC debate for Fox News face-off
- The Republican US presidential candidate wants the event moved to the network most popular with his followers, with a ‘full arena audience’
Republican US presidential nominee Donald Trump proposed to debate Democratic US Vice-President Kamala Harris on Fox News on September 4, and the Harris campaign said Trump is trying to back out of a debate that had been set to run on ABC.
The rules would be similar to the first debate with US President Joe Biden, who has since dropped his re-election bid, Trump said in a post on Truth Social late on Friday. But this time it would have a “full arena audience” and take place in the battleground state of Pennsylvania, Trump said.
Trump and Biden had agreed to a second debate on September 10 on ABC News which the former US president had suggested should be moved to Fox, the most popular network with his followers.
Harris, who on Friday secured the delegate votes needed to clinch the Democratic nomination for the November 5 election, said on Saturday that she plans to participate in the originally planned debate.
“It’s interesting how ‘any time, any place’ becomes ‘one specific time, one specific safe space,’” she wrote on social media platform X. “I’ll be there on Sept. 10, like he agreed to. I hope to see him there.”
