Former President Donald Trump (right) said he is ready for three debates against Vice President Kamala Harris (left) (Pictures: Reuters/Getty Images)
Ex-President Donald Trump has agreed to debate Vice President Kamala Harris – and called for two more showdowns with her ahead of the 2024 election.
Speaking from his Mar-a-Lago resort on Thursday, Trump said he accepted debate invitations from NBC News, ABC News and Fox News.
‘I think it’s very important to have debates,’ said the Republican nominee.
The ABC News debate set to take place on September 10 had been a hot topic as Trump said he might not participate because the then-presumptive Democratic nominee switched from President Joe Biden to his second-in-charge, Harris.
Republican presidential candidate and former President Donald Trump announced the three debates during a press conference at his Mar-a-Lago estate on Thursday (Picture: Getty Images)
Harris on Thursday wrote on X (formerly Twitter): ‘I hear that Donald Trump has finally committed to debating me on September 10. I look forward to it.’
Her campaign did not respond to Trump’s two other debate proposals.
The Trump campaign said the debates will be hosted by Fox News on September 4, ABC News on September 10 and NBC News on September 25.
‘So we have those three dates and those networks, they’re very anxiously awaiting that date and those dates,’ Trump said.
Vice President Kamala Harris has agreed to one debate against ex-President Donald Trump but her campaign did not immediately remark on the other two dates (Picture: Getty Images)
‘We have spoken to the heads of the network and it’s all been confirmed.’
The 2024 race took a dramatic turn last month when Biden ended his reelection campaign and endorsed Harris, who has been polling better than he did against Trump.
Some surveys show a neck-and-neck race between Trump and Harris. Trump has predicted that Harris’ ‘honeymoon’ in the polls will soon end.
Trump also doubled down on his controversial remark last week that Harris ‘happened to turn black’ from Indian when asked about it
Republican presidential candidate former President Donald Trump speaks during a press conference at his Mar-a-Lago estate on Thursday (Picture: Getty Images)
‘You’ll have to ask her that question because she’s the one that said it. I didn’t say it,’ he said.
‘You’ll have to ask her about that. But to me, it doesn’t matter. But to her from her standpoint, I think it’s very disrespectful to both really, whether it’s Indian or Black. I think it’s very disrespectful to both. To me, it doesn’t matter.’
The first debate of the 2024 cycle, between Trump and Biden, proved to be monumental as the latter’s disastrous performance led him to drop out of the race and created a new dynamic with only several months before Election Day.
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