ABC News on Thursday said that former President Donald Trump, the GOP presidential nominee, and Vice President Kamala Harris, the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee, have agreed to debate on September 10.
Trump said he would debate Harris on the ABC News stage a month from now during a news conference at his Mar-a-Lago estate in Florida on Thursday.
Newsweek reached out to Trump and Harris’ campaigns via email for comment.
The former president previously agreed to the same debate when ABC News first issued an invitation in May. At the time, the debate was with President Joe Biden.
Biden dropped out of the 2024 presidential race on July 21 following what many considered a poor debate performance against Trump on the CNN debate stage in Atlanta in late June. Biden also endorsed Harris the day he withdrew from the race.
After Biden was replaced by Harris, Trump started to back away from the ABC News debate.
Trump said he would “probably end up debating” Harris during an interview with Fox News that aired on July 29.
However, he added: “I can also make a case for not doing it.”
Last Friday, Trump said on social media that his agreement to the ABC debate “has been terminated” because he would no longer be debating Biden.
The former president, meanwhile, agreed to appear on Fox News on September 4 in Pennslyvania for a debate with Harris. If Harris didn’t agree to the Fox News debate, Trump said he would instead do a major town hall event with the network.
“I’ll see her on September 4th, or I won’t see her at all,” Trump said on social media last Saturday.
Meanwhile, Harris’ campaign has accused Trump of “running scared” and going to Fox News “to bail him out.”
The vice president made it clear that she was going to the ABC News debate with or without Trump.
“It’s interesting how ‘any time, any place’ becomes ‘one specific time, one specific safe space,'” she wrote on social media last Saturday. “I’ll be there on September 10th, like he agreed to. I hope to see him there.”
In June, ABC News reported its September 10 debate would be moderated by World News Tonight anchor David Muir and ABC News Live Prime anchor Linsey Davis.
According to the June report, more information on the debate such as the rules and location will be revealed closer to September 10.
Update 08/08/24 4:07 p.m. ET: This story has been updated to include more information.
