'Running straight to Fox News to bail him out': Kamala Harris nails Trump on debate fears

On Saturday morning, Vice President Kamala Harris' campaign slapped aside a proposal from Donald Trump that the September debate scheduled for ABC be shifted to Fox News — and then taunted him for running to his safe space at the conservative network.

Late Friday night, the former president ran to his Truth Social platform and wrote, "I have agreed with FoxNews to debate Kamala Harris on Wednesday, September 4th. The Debate was previously scheduled against Sleepy Joe Biden on ABC, but has been terminated in that Biden will no longer be a participant, and I am in litigation against ABC Network and George Slopadopoulos, thereby creating a conflict of interest."

He then added, "The FoxNews Debate will be held in the Great Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, at a site in an area to be determined. The Moderators of the Debate will be Bret Baier and Martha MacCallum, and the Rules will be similar to the Rules of my Debate with Sleepy Joe, who has been treated horribly by his Party – BUT WITH A FULL ARENA AUDIENCE!…."

In a statement posted to X on Saturday morning, the Harris campaign called the proposal a non-starter.

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"Donald Trump is running scared and trying to back out of a debate he already agreed to and running straight to Fox News to bail him out, " the statement asserted.

It then added, "He needs to stop playing games and show up to the debate he already committed to on Sept. 10. The Vice President will be there one way or the other to take the opportunity to speak to a prime time national audience"

The statement also referred to the ex-president as "Mr. Anytime, anywhere, anyplace" and added he "should have no problem with that unless he's too scared to show up on the 10th."

You can see the statement below