Former President Donald Trump said Tuesday that he would be willing to debate Vice President Kamala Harris, the Democratic Party’s likely nominee for the White House, multiple times.
“I would actually be willing to have more than one debate,” the Republican candidate said in a call with the media organized by the Republican National Committee.
“I think if you’re between the Democratic candidate or the Republican candidate, you really have an obligation to debate,” the former president said.
Trump again criticised the fact that the second debate will be held on ABC, as agreed with Joe Biden’s campaign months ago. The first one took place on CNN on 27 June and was the trigger for Biden to abandon his presidential aspirations after his disastrous performance.
The former president said he is not “enthusiastic” about having a debate hosted by ABC. In a message on Truth Social last weekend, he called for the debate to be on the conservative Fox News channel, rather than on ABC.
At her first rally since Biden ended his re-election campaign on Sunday and endorsed Kamala Harris, the vice president evoked her past as a prosecutor to harshly attack Republican candidate Donald Trump, who is the first former president to be convicted of a crime in the country’s history and of whom the Democrat said: “I know well what his kind are like.”
Just 36 hours after officially launching her campaign, Harris has mathematically become the Democratic nominee, although her nomination will have to be made official at the Democratic National Convention in August.
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2024-08-04 16:23:00
