Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump mentioned Thursday he has agreed to 3 debates in September in opposition to his Democratic rival, Kamala Harris, on three completely different information networks.
“I believe it is essential to have debates,” Trump mentioned initially of a solo information convention at his Mar-a-Lago resort house in Palm Seaside, Florida.
The previous president mentioned he agreed to a Sept. 4 debate on Fox Information. He additionally mentioned his marketing campaign has a “pretty full settlement” with NBC Information and an settlement with ABC Information for 2 extra debates in September.
ABC has beforehand agreed to host a presidential debate with Trump and Harris on Sept. 10. It was not instantly clear if NBC has agreed to host on Sept. 25, a date Trump floated. Fox additionally beforehand agreed to host a Trump-Harris debate.
Each the Harris and Trump campaigns have agreed to attend ABC’s debate, the community confirmed Thursday afternoon.
Trump made the announcement initially of a freewheeling solo information convention, which got here as he tries to sluggish the momentum of the Democratic ticket of Harris and her working mate, Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz.
Trump’s marketing campaign is heaping strain on Harris and Walz to take questions from the media.
Harris, the vp, has largely sidestepped the press since President Joe Biden withdrew his reelection bid and endorsed her as his substitute final month.
As she and Walz have launched into a kickoff marketing campaign swing via pivotal battleground states, Trump’s marketing campaign and his allies have tried to browbeat them into going off the cuff.
But it surely’s not clear whether or not the strain marketing campaign will work on the Democratic ticket, which remains to be driving a sudden surge in voter enthusiasm and a lift within the polls.
Harris marketing campaign spokesman Ammar Moussa mentioned earlier than Trump’s presser that the ex-president is “throwing tantrums” as a result of he is not getting the eye he “craves.”
“Trump has no imaginative and prescient, he has no options, and he’s working a marketing campaign of revenge and retribution to enact his Challenge 2025 agenda and make folks’s lives worse,” Moussa mentioned.
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