Former President Donald Trump shared on his social media on Tuesday that Vice President and Democratic nominee Kamala Harris will not debate him on Fox News on Sept. 4.
“Comrade Kamala Harris has just informed us that she will NOT do the FoxNews Debate on [Sept. 4],” Trump wrote in a post to Truth Social.
He went on to slam Harris for backing out of the debate but said that it didn’t surprise him.
“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, our “Border Czar,” where millions of criminals and people from mental institutions and terrorists, have been allowed to pour into our Country, totally unchecked and unvetted,” Trump wrote in the post.
The proposed debate from Fox News was scheduled to be held in Pennsylvania, with station anchors Bret Baier and Martha MacCallum slotted to host it.
Trump said in his post that he still expects to speak in Pennsylvania on Sept. 4, instead in a “Tele-Town Hall, anchored by Sean Hannity.” He said more details will come on the event soon.
While Harris may not be participating in the Sept. 4 debate, according to Trump, the pair are still set to face off against one another in an ABC News debate on Sept. 10.
The Republican nominee has also agreed to a Sept. 25 debate hosted by NBC News.
The Harris campaign has said it would consider participating in a second presidential debate in October.
The vice presidential nominees for both Harris and Trump, Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz (D) and Ohio Sen. J.D. Vance (R), are also slotted to debate on CBS News on Oct. 1.
“Voters deserve to see the candidates for the highest office in the land share their competing visions for our future,” Harris’s campaign communications director, Michael Tyler, said in a statement last week. “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.”
Harris and her campaign have not yet responded to Trump’s post announcing that she will not participate in the early September debate.