ABC Information says that each Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump and his Democratic counterpart, Kamala Harris, have agreed to satisfy in a debate on Sept. 10.
The community’s announcement on Thursday got here shortly after Trump advised a information convention that he had agreed to a few debates with Harris in September on separate networks.
Trump is rejoining the ABC debate days after posting on his social media community that he wouldn’t seem on the community, citing a lawsuit he has filed. His resolution units up a extremely anticipated second in an election the place the primary debate led to an enormous change within the race — with Democratic President Joe Biden ending his reelection bid and endorsing Harris.
“I think it’s very important to have debates,” Trump stated Thursday. “I look forward to the debates because I think we have to set the record straight.”
On the social media web site X afterward Thursday, Harris wrote that “I hear that Donald Trump has fully committed to debating me on September 10. I look forward to it.”
At a personal fundraiser in Paris on Thursday, Harris’ husband, Doug Emhoff, stated he “cannot wait” to see his spouse debate Trump. He was in Paris as head of the U.S. delegation to the Summer time Olympics closing ceremony.
Fox Information has additionally proposed a debate between Harris and Trump to happen on Sept. 4, and NBC Information is angling to air one on Sept. 25. Throughout an look in Michigan, Harris stated she was “happy to have that conversation” about an extra debate.
Trump additionally stated he desires his vice presidential candidate, JD Vance, to debate Harris’ alternative for veep, Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, on CBS. The community is discussing potential dates to suggest for that assembly.
ABC says that David Muir and Linsey Davis will reasonable the Sept. 10 contest. That’s the identical date that Trump and Biden had agreed to their second and ultimate debate, earlier than Biden’s resolution put that occasion doubtful.
Any debate guarantees to tackle further significance with polls displaying a decent race between the previous president and present vice chairman. Whereas Harris has ridden a wave of pleasure amongst Democrats since inheriting the mantle from Biden, she has but to look at a information convention or give an interview to a journalist.
Republicans are already making that a difficulty. Vance, in a publish on X as Trump was in his information convention on Thursday, stated Harris was hiding behind a TelePrompter. “It’s been 18 days since she answered real questions from the media,” he wrote.
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Related Press writers Jocelyn Noveck in Paris and Darlene Superville in Romulus, Mich. contributed to this report. David Bauder writes about media for the AP. Comply with him at http://twitter.com/dbauder.
