Former President Donald Trump has backed out of his promise made nearly five months ago on social media. Trump vowed to debate “AnyTime, AnyWhere, AnyPlace.”
After Donald Trump, the Republican presidential nominee, backed out of a proposed television debate, Kamala Harris trolled him, using his words against him. “What happened to ‘any time, any place’?” the vice president posted on X late Thursday night.
Trump’s challenge to Biden
Trump made this statement in March to lay down the gauntlet to President Joe Biden as the two rivals sparred about when and where they would face each other on the debate stage.
However, the former president seems to have gotten cold feet, as Harris has become the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee after Biden stepped aside.
In defense, the Trump campaign’s communications director, Steven Cheung, blamed the Democrats’ instability in deciding their nominee. Director Steven Cheung said Trump would not participate in the debate until the Democrats decided on their nominee. “Given the continued political chaos surrounding Crooked Joe Biden and the Democratic Party, general election debate details cannot be finalized until Democrats formally decide on their nominee,” Cheung said.
“There is a strong sense by many in the Democrat Party—namely Barack Hussein Obama—that Kamala Harris is a Marxist fraud who cannot beat President Trump, and they are still holding out for someone ‘better.’
“Therefore, it would be inappropriate to schedule things with Harris because Democrats could change their minds very well.”
Holes in Trump’s defense
Cheung’s explanation skipped the part where neither Biden nor Trump were their respective parties’ nominees as of the time of the first presidential debate in Atlanta on June 27, and like Harris, they were both merely presumptive nominees at the time.
Aside from this fact, the doubts about Harris not emerging as the Democrat’s nominee at the Democratic National Convention in Chicago next month keep growing slimmer by the day. She has already secured more than enough delegates to meet the threshold, and no major challenger has emerged to rival her. She has the public support of the majority of the party’s big beasts, like Navy Pelosi, Chuck Schumer, and Hakeem Jeffries.
Harris ready for Trump
Harris was asked about debating Trump in an interview on Thursday with reporters at Joint Base Andrews in Maryland.
In her response, she said she was “ready” to face Trump on the stage but accused him of “backpedaling” on his commitment to the debate provisionally scheduled for September 10 on ABC News.
She said, “I have agreed to the previously agreed upon September 10 debate,”
“He agreed to that previously. Now, here he is backpedaling, and I’m ready, and I think the voters deserve to see the split screen in this race on a debate stage, so I’m ready to go.”
Earlier this week, Trump told reporters that he would “absolutely” be prepared to debate Harris. Still, the debate should be hosted by a conservative and more friendly broadcaster like Fox News and not ABC News who, according to him, is politically “very biased.”
