Former President Donald Trump has agreed to participate in three debates with Vice President Kamala Harris. Harris and Trump have agreed to appear in the presidential debate on ABC on September 10th, and in response to Trump's confirmation that he will be participating in the debate, Harris said on X, “I've heard that Donald Trump has finally committed to debating me on September 10th. I'm looking forward to it.”
The three debates Trump has agreed to take part in are scheduled for Sept. 4, Sept. 10 and Sept. 25, with Harris declining an invitation to take part in the Fox News debate on Sept. 4. Last week, Trump said he had agreed to debate Harris on Fox News, telling Truth Social:
I have an agreement with FoxNews to debate Kamala Harris on Wednesday, September 4th. This debate was previously scheduled with Sleepy Joe Biden on ABC, but was canceled due to a conflict of interest as Biden is no longer participating and I am currently in litigation with ABC network and George Slopadopolos. The FoxNews debate will be held in Pennsylvania at a location to be determined. The debate will be hosted by Bret Baier and Martha MacCallum, and the rules will be similar to those for the debate with Sleepy Joe. Sleepy Joe is being treated badly by his party, but the arena will be full. …
Trump's confirmation that he will appear in the Sept. 10 debate comes after Harris accused him of backing out of an agreement to appear in the Sept. 10 debate, which had been made between Trump and President Biden. “Trump agreed to the Sept. 10 debate. Now it appears he's backing out. Voters should see the split screen on the debate stage. We're ready. Let's go,” Harris said on X.
The Sept. 10 debate was scheduled after the earliest debate in presidential election history, a June 27 CNN debate, and before Democrats pressured Biden to drop out of the 2024 presidential race. The earliest debate before 2024 was on Sept. 21 during the 1980 presidential election.
Biden's poor performance in that debate sparked a downward spiral that ended his campaign, and it was reported that the scheduling of the June debate was a design to remove Biden from the Democratic Party's nominee list ahead of the 2024 Democratic National Convention, scheduled for August 19-22.
