Fox News has reached out to former President Donald Trump and Vice President Kamala Harris to give them one more chance to debate days before the election.
Fox News Media announced on Wednesday that it has offered the presidential candidates a chance to debate in Pennsylvania on either Thursday, October 24, or Sunday, October 27. The news channel said that Bret Baier and Martha MacCallum would moderate the debate.
“This would present an opportunity for each candidate to make his or her closing arguments,” said Fox News Media President & Executive Editor Jay Wallace and Vice President of Politics Jessica Loker.
As of Wednesday afternoon, neither candidate had publicly agreed to either of the debate dates proposed by Fox News. Trump will reportedly hold a rally at Madison Square Garden in New York on October 27.
In their comments, Wallace and Loker pointed to New York Times Opinion Senior Editor David Swerdlick calling for Harris to debate Trump on Fox News.
“She’s made strategic appearances on the podcasts ‘Call Her Daddy’ and ‘All the Smoke.’ Her new direct-to-camera ad is strong,” Swerdlick wrote in an opinion piece published on Tuesday. “But she hasn’t made her closing argument yet. And the best way for her to do that is in another debate. To persuade Donald Trump to join her, she should offer to hold that debate on Fox News.”
Harris did not agree to debate Trump on Fox News on September 4. The September 4 debate was initially scheduled to take place between Trump and President Joe Biden on ABC until Biden dropped out of the race following his disastrous debate against Trump on June 27.
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Two days after Trump and Harris met for the first time on the debate stage, the Republcian nominee said he would not debate Harris again.
“When a prizefighter loses a fight, the first words out of his mouth are, ‘I WANT A REMATCH.’ Polls clearly show that I won the Debate against Comrade Kamala Harris, the Democrats’ Radical Left Candidate, on Tuesday night, and she immediately called for a Second Debate,” Trump wrote on Truth Social.
Shortly after the vice presidential debate last week, the Harris campaign said that “the American people deserve to see her and Trump on the debate stage one more time.” Trump again shot down Harris’ attempts to hold another presidential debate, saying, “Lyin’ Kamala just put out a request for another Debate because they lost so badly tonight – Again, it’s like the fighter who lost, gets up and says, ‘I WANT A REMATCH.’”
“I beat Biden, I then beat her, and I’m not looking to do it again, too far down the line,” he added. “Votes are already cast – And I’m leading BIG in the Polls. I’ll MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN, she’s incapable of it!”
