Harris Offers 2 Debates With Trump: ‘The Debate About Debates Is Over’

Vice President Kamala Harris’ campaign signaled Thursday she is willing to debate former President Donald Trump twice, after Trump, who previously pulled out of a planned debate with Harris, offered to face off three times—raising the possibility of multiple debates as the presidential race tightens.

The statement said as long as Trump “actually shows up on September 10 to debate” Harris in a planned event on ABC, Harris’ running mate Tim Walz will debate Trump’s pick JD Vance on Oct. 1, and Harris will commit to another debate with Trump on an unspecified date in October.

The Harris team’s statement comes one week after Trump reversed course on debates and committed to attending the Sept. 10 ABC debate he had previously pulled out of—and proposed he and Harris have three total debates.

Walz and Vance formally accepted CBS’ debate invitations Wednesday and Thursday, respectively, and Vance invited Walz to a second debate on Sept. 18 on CNN. In a post on X, formerly known as Twitter, Vance said “the American people deserve as many debates as possible,” but Tyler’s statement later on Thursday seemingly rejected the offer.
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Vance already hit back at the Harris campaign for rejecting his request for a second debate, saying on X: “If you want to be the VP of the United States, you should make your pitch directly to the American people.

What network would host the October debate Tyler’s statement referred to.

Trump’s team initially said they wouldn’t commit to a debate with Harris until she was the official nominee, and then Trump called on the second debate to be on Fox News instead of ABC and said he would no longer participate in it on ABC as he’d agreed to do it when he would be debating Biden, not Harris. Last week, however, Trump changed his tune in a press conference and challenged Harris to three debates—including the originally planned ABC debate, along with one on NBC and one on Fox News.

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