Trump agrees to debate Kamala Harris on Fox News

Former President Trump announced Friday night that he had accepted Fox News' offer to host a debate against Vice President Kamala Harris.

Trump has said the debate will take place on September 4 in Pennsylvania, although the location of the event has not yet been determined.

The former president also noted that a previously scheduled ABC News debate against President Biden before he suspended his re-election campaign had been canceled, citing his lawsuit against that network and one of its hosts, George Stephanopoulos.

“I have agreed with FoxNews to debate Kamala Harris on Wednesday, September 4th,” Trump wrote on his social media platform Truth Social. “The debate was originally scheduled against Sleepy Joe Biden on ABC, but was canceled as Biden will no longer be a participant, and I am suing ABC Network and George Slopadopoulos, creating a conflict of interest.”

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Former President Trump said he has agreed to debate Vice President Kamala Harris on Fox News. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik, file)

The debate will be moderated by Fox News anchors Bret Baier and Martha MacCallum.

The rules for the debate will be similar to those of CNN's June 27 debate against Biden, who Trump said “was treated horribly by his party.” But unlike the CNN debate, which had no audience, the Fox News debate will have spectators.

Fox News had invited Trump and Harris to participate in a debate in Pennsylvania on September 17.

Harris said last month that she was “ready” to debate the former president and accused him of backtracking on a previous agreement to debate on ABC News on September 10.

The move comes after Harris became the Democratic Party's presidential nominee after Biden announced he was dropping his re-election campaign.

Trump had previously said he would not debate Harris because she was not the party's official nominee after Biden withdrew from the race. But on Friday, the vice president secured enough delegates to officially become the party's nominee.

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Fox News had invited Trump and Harris to participate in a debate in Pennsylvania. (ALLISON JOYCE/AFP via Getty Images)

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“As everyone knows, the Democrats unconstitutionally took a candidate who had been declared defeated and ruthlessly replaced him with a new candidate,” Trump wrote. “This has never been done before and is a threat to democracy, but I am fully prepared to accept the results of this ‘coup’ and replace Joe on the debate stage with the insane Kamala Harris.”

“I spent hundreds of millions of dollars, time and effort to fight Joe, and when I won the debate, they threw a new candidate into the ring. It’s not fair, but that’s the way it is!” he continued. “However, different candidate or not, their bad policies are the same, and that will be made clear at the debate on September 4th. I look forward to meeting and debating with Kamala Harris on September 4th. This date is convenient and appropriate as it falls just before early voting begins on September 6th for the 2024 presidential election. I look forward to seeing everyone on September 4th, in the Great Commonwealth of Pennsylvania!”

Trump also survived an assassination attempt at a campaign rally in Pennsylvania on July 13.