Trump’s declaration comes after the former president on Friday night backed out of a planned September 10 debate hosted by ABC News.
Harris’ campaign has argued that Trump is afraid to debate her.
The ABC News lawsuit, however, was filed in March, months before the Trump and Biden campaigns agreed in mid-May on two debates.
On July 23, Trump told reporters on a press call that he hadn’t agreed to debate Harris, just Biden.
“I think debating is important for a presidential race, I really do, you sort of have an obligation to debate.”.
And on Friday morning, hours before he backed out of the ABC News event, Trump told Fox Business he wasn’t sure he wanted to debate Harris.
“He won’t debate, but he and his running mate sure have a lot to say about me,” Harris told a crowd in Atlanta earlier this week. »