Donald Trump Pushes For Fox News VP Debate After Joe Biden’s Campaign Accepted CBS News Proposal
17.05.2024 - 21:55
/ deadline.com
Donald Trump said that his campaign has agreed to participate in a vice presidential debate — but on Fox News.
His statement came a day after Joe Biden’s presidential campaign said that Vice President Kamala Harris had accepted CBS News‘ invitation for a debate, either on July 23 or Aug. 13.
In a message on Truth Social, his social media platform, Trump wrote, “On behalf of the future Vice President of the United States, who I have not yet chosen, we hereby accept the Fox Vice Presidential Debate, hopefully at Virginia State University, the first Historically Black College or University to host a Debate – Date to be determined. I urge Vice President Kamala Harris to agree to this. MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!” Trump didn’t say anything about the CBS News invite.
On Fox News, anchor Bret Baier, calling this the “wild west of debate proposals,” said that the invite went out to both campaigns and confirmed that it had reached out to Virginia State University to host. The was set to be one of the venues set by the Commission on Presidential Debates for an event this cycle.
But Biden’s campaign, in a letter to the commission this week, said that it would not participate in the commission-organized events and instead was opting for earlier, network hosted debates. CNN is planning a presidential debate with Trump and Biden on June 27; ABC News is hosting an event on Sept. 10. Both debates are expected to be in studio.
The Biden campaign also proposed a vice presidential debate in late July or August, after the Republican National Convention. The CBS News offer seemed to meet their requests.
Baier, though, noted that Fox News had proposed a presidential debate of its own for October, and that Trump had accepted. But the Biden