Trump says Kamala Harris will not participate in Fox News debate on September 4

Former President Trump said Monday night that Vice President Kamala Harris' team informed her campaign that she would not participate in the Fox News presidential debate on Sept. 4.

The proposed debate would have taken place in Pennsylvania and would have been moderated by Fox News anchors Bret Baier and Martha MacCallum.

“I am not surprised by this development because I have a feeling she knows it is very difficult, at best, for her to defend her record reversal on absolutely everything she once believed in, including her statements that THERE WILL BE NO CHEMICAL FRACKING IN PENNSYLVANIA and her HORRIBLE performance at the border,” Trump wrote on his social media platform Truth Social.

TRUMP, HARRIS SCHEDULED FOR PRESIDENTIAL DEBATE ON ABC ON SEPTEMBER 10

Former President Trump said Vice President Kamala Harris refused to participate in a presidential debate on Fox News on September 4. (Getty Images)

The former president was initially reluctant to debate Harris after President Biden suspended his re-election campaign because she was not the Democratic Party's official nominee, before later agreeing to debate her once she secured the party's presidential nomination.

Trump and Harris have both confirmed they will participate in a debate on ABC News on September 10. Trump had previously said he had also agreed to participate in a debate on NBC News on September 25.

Harris' campaign has said it will consider holding a second presidential debate in October. The two teams have also agreed to host a vice presidential debate on CBS News on October 1 between Democratic Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz and Republican Ohio Sen. J.D. Vance.

TRUMP AGREES TO DEBATE KAMALA HARRIS ON FOX NEWS

Trump and Harris have both confirmed they will participate in a September 10 debate on ABC News. (Michael M. Santiago/Getty Images)

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“Voters deserve to see candidates for the highest office in the land share their competing visions for our future,” Michael Tyler, Harris’s campaign communications director, said in a statement last week. “The more they play games, the more insecure and unserious Trump and Vance appear to the American people. Those games end now.”

Instead of the Fox News debate, Trump said he would participate in a town hall meeting in Pennsylvania with Fox News anchor Sean Hannity.