Sen. J.D. Vance (R-OH) has done his part as former President Donald Trump‘s vice presidential nominee to amplify his attempts to goad Vice President Kamala Harris into a debate.
Vance described Trump’s proposal for a debate on Fox News in Pennsylvania on Sept. 4 before a “full arena audience” as a “masterstroke.”
“The Kamala campaign has been saying for a long time that President Trump is afraid to debate Kamala Harris, which of course is absurd because the last time he debated their nominee, that nominee withdrew two weeks later,” Vance told SiriusXM’s Breitbart News Saturday with Matt Boyle. “The thing that we’ve learned about Kamala, Matt, over the last four years is she’s incredibly bad if she’s not scripted, right?”
Trump “feeds off of human beings, which is like natural and normal for a political leader,” according to Vance.
“You’re supposed to lead people and to lead people you actually have to sort of like people and engage with them well,” Vance said. “So him having a crowd for this debate, I think is really important because it will show his natural leadership ability. And it also shows, frankly, that people are kind of turned off by Kamala Harris.”
“Hopefully, it happens, and hopefully, Kamala Harris agrees to it,” he added. “If she doesn’t, then clearly, she’s the one who’s afraid to debate.”
The Trump and Harris campaigns have been posturing regarding a debate after Trump agreed to a match-up on ABC on Sept. 10 when President Joe Biden was the Democratic nominee before he started signaling last week that he would prefer for it to take place on Fox News and that he could also “make a case for not doing it.” On Friday night, Trump declared his agreement with Biden had been “terminated” because the president is no longer his party’s standard-bearer.
“I am in litigation against ABC Network and George Slopadopoulos, thereby creating a conflict of interest,” he added on social media, alluding to George Stephanopoulos. “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.”
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Meanwhile, the Harris campaign insists the vice president will appear on ABC on Sept. 10 “one way or the other to take the opportunity to speak to a prime time national audience.”
“We’re happy to discuss further debates after the one both campaigns have already agreed to,” Harris campaign communications director Michael Tyler wrote Saturday in a statement. “Mr. Anytime, anywhere, anyplace should have no problem with that unless he’s too scared to show up on the 10th.”
