Fox News anchor Bret Baier said on Tuesday that he believes Vice President Kamala Harris is willing to participate in a debate on his network, while former President Donald Trump appears to be unwilling.
Trump previously agreedĀ to debate on Fox News on Sept. 4, but the vice president never consented to the match-up. Baier told radio host Hugh Hewitt he is surprised by Trumpās apparent reluctance to debate Harris again, asserting that he thinks Harris would now accept an invitation to debate on Fox News.
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āThe latest is, I actually believe ā this is me talking ā that the Harris campaign would do a Fox debate ā¦ The former president has come to the conclusion that there really shouldnāt be another debate,ā Baier said. āNow, his reasoning, donāt know. I always thought that it would be like a bug zapper in the backyard for the former president in that he couldnāt get away from the light of 70 million viewers and that he would have to eventually, just knowing him, you know, do it if it was on Fox and something he could agree to. Iām getting the sense from him and the campaign that they arenāt moving past it, and really the hold-up is not the Harris campaign and Fox; it is the former president.ā
ABC NewsĀ debate moderators Linsey Davis and David Muir facedĀ backlash for persistently fact-checking Trump while enabling Harris to make unchallenged false statements during their Sept. 10 showdown. Trump asserted on Sept. 12 that he would not debate Harris again after her campaign requested another face-off.
āShe was a no-show at the Fox Debate, and refused to do NBC & CBS. KAMALA SHOULD FOCUS ON WHAT SHE SHOULD HAVE DONE DURING THE LAST ALMOST FOUR YEAR PERIOD. THERE WILL BE NO THIRD DEBATE,ā Trump posted on Truth Social.
CNNās Chris Wallace said on Sept. 13 that there is no chance that Harris will debate Trump on Fox News.
āI would say that there is an absolutely 0%, whatās lower than 0, chance that she would agree to debate on Fox,ā Wallace said. āLet me tell you a quick story. Back in 2019 when she was running, the president of Fox News and I, who was seen as being pretty even handed, went to meet with a bunch of the Democrats to try and get them to do town halls or do an interview. Elizabeth Warren met with us, Bernie Sanders met with us, the only Democrat who refused to meet with us off-the-record just to consider the possibility of going on Fox was Kamala Harris. There is a 0% chance that she will agree to an interview on Fox.ā
Harris accepted an Oct. 23 debate with CNN, but Trump said it is ātoo lateā because of how close it would be to the November election.
āAs President Trump has said, only losers request a rematch. Kamala Harris lost the debate, and she knows it,āĀ Karoline Leavitt, Trump campaign national press secretary, told the Daily Caller News Foundation.
The Harris campaign did not immediately respond to the Daily Caller News Foundationās request for comment.
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