JUST IN: Kamala COWERS, Refuses To Debate Trump On Fox

Former President Donald Trump took to social media Monday night to excoriate Vice President Kamala Harris after she declined his request to debate on Fox News.

A debate on the center-right network previously scheduled for September 4th will not take place, Fox News reports, after the Harris campaign reportedly informed the Trump campaign that she won’t be participating. The debate would have been moderated by Fox anchors Bret Baier and Martha MacCallum. “I am not surprised by this development because I feel that she knows it is very difficult, at best, for her to defend her record setting Flip-Flopping on absolutely everything she once believed in, including her statements that THERE WILL BE NO FRACKING IN PENNSYLVANIA and her HORRIBLE Performance on the Border,” Trump wrote on Truth Social. In place of a Fox News debate, President Trump said he would participate in a town hall hosted by anchor Sean Hannity the night of September 4th.

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The former president initially was skeptical about debating Vice President Harris, arguing for weeks that she cannot be the Democratic Party’s nominee after other party leaders committed a “coup” in forcing President Joe Biden from the race. Others in the mainstream media like New York Times columnist Maureen Dowd have agreed with that sentiment while other outlets like the Washington Post frame Trump’s resistance to Harris’s candidacy as an authoritarian excuse to deny the results of the election if Harris wins. But with Harris set to be officially nominated at this week’s Democratic National Convention, the stage is set for a showdown on September 10th on ABC News.

A second debate offer from NBC News, which would take place September 25th, has already been agreed to by Trump but not Harris. The vice president’s campaign said she would consider a second presidential debate in October. Meanwhile, vice presidential candidates Sen. J.D. Vance (R-OH) and Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz will face off on October 1st on CBS News. “Voters deserve to see the candidates for the highest office in the land share their competing visions for our future,” Harris’ communications director Michael Tyler said in a statement to Fox News. “The more they play games, the more insecure and unserious Trump and Vance reveal themselves to be to the American people. Those games end now.”

In addition to skirting debates, Vice President Harris has taken heat from mainstream media outlets for refusing to appear for unscripted media interviews or press conferences. During a contentious interview last week, a spokesperson for Harris said she would complete a single sit-down interview by the end of August though she did not say when or where it might occur. “We absolutely are” going to take questions from the press, Michael Tyler said on CNN recently. “You heard her do it as she’s out on the stump,” a likely reference to a 70-second stop that Harris made in front of a steel gate keeping reporters at bay the prior week. “She said we’re going to be having a sit-down interview here before the end of the month. What she’s going to be focused on, and what this campaign’s going to be focused on, is communicating directly with the voters that are going to be deciding the pathway to 270 electoral votes.”

Harris’s advisors have every right to be concerned about what the vice president and Democratic nominee may say in an unscripted setting or debate. Her head-scratching statement about falling “out of a coconut tree” has been held up by conservatives as emblematic of how absurd Harris’s answers to questions can be while her allies have attempted to rally around the line, turning it into an online meme. Throughout the Biden administration she has struggled to adopt various roles as the “border czar,” ambassador to Africa, and point person on artificial intelligence. Defending President Joe Biden last year, she stated he is “very much alive.” During his own recent press conference, former President Donald Trump declared that his new rival is “not very smart” and contrasted his winding, hour-long appearance with Harris’s lack of transparency.

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