Democratic strategist James Carville said Vice President Harris should accept a Fox News invitation to debate former President Trump next month.
Carville said the former president is “scared to debate a girl” on Saturday’s episode of “Politicon.” He suggested that Harris accept an invitation to debate Trump on Sept. 18 in New York City because that is the day of his sentencing in the Manhattan hush money case.
“I hope somebody in the vice president campaign is listening. I think we should accept the Fox debate, and I think the debate should take place on the night of Sept. 18th in New York City, and I think we should be gracious to former President Trump,” he said.
“So, tell Fox you’ll be glad. You’ll show up in Manhattan. They got a studio there. I’ve been it before, and we’ll have the debate on Fox on the night of Sept. 18th. That’s what we should do,” he added moments later.
Mediaite first highlighted Carville’s comments.
Trump said in a Truth Social post on Friday that he accepted a Sept. 4 Fox News debate against Harris and that he will not be attending the ABC News debate that he and President Biden previously agreed to for Sept. 10.
“I have agreed with FoxNews to debate Kamala Harris on Wednesday, September 4th,” Trump posted Friday night on Truth Social. “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.”
Harris campaign communications director Michael Tyler said in a statement that the former president is looking to Fox News “to bail him out” and called on Trump to debate on Sept. 10.
“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,” Tyler said.
“We’re happy to discuss further debates after the one both campaigns have already agreed to. Mr. Anytime, anywhere, anyplace should have no problem with that unless he’s too scared to show up on the 10th,” he added.