Vice President Kamala Harris has accepted to participate in a solo debate against whoever former President Donald Trump selects as his vice presidential candidate. This decision was reached following an announcement made by Fox News hosts Martha MacCallum and Bret Baier on Friday, revealing that their network had extended the invitation to organize a vice presidential debate.
“This is the Wild West of debate proposals. We put out a debate proposal for a presidential debate. It was accepted by former President Trump. Not accepted yet by the Biden camp in early October and now there’s a pitch specifically for the vice presidential debate that went out about half an hour ago to both campaigns, suggesting that in addition, the Fox News media has reached out to Virginia State University (VSU) as a possible location since it was selected by the Commission of Presidential Debates to be the first a historically black college or university to host a presidential debate,” Baier reported.
“So we are making this formal request for a Vice President of debate either July 23rd, August 13th, or after the RNC and DNC conventions, and just in the past few minutes as that has gone out I have received this. From former President Trump and the campaign,” he added before quoting a Trump Truth Social post regarding a veep debate.
“On behalf of the future vice president of the United States, who I have not yet chosen, we hereby accept to the FOX vice presidential debate. Hopefully, at Virginia State University, the first historically black college or university to host a debate. Date to be determined. I urge Vice President Kamala Harris to agree to this, and make America Great Again,” he wrote.
“That’s from a former president his campaign. So we will see about the Biden-harris campaign response and where we go from here. Obviously, we have the CNN and ABC debate that has been agreed to already and we’ll see what else happens. This is a strange dynamic in getting these things locked down but we are doing it in short order,” Baier continued.
A campaign official from the Biden team confirmed on Saturday that they have agreed to participate in the upcoming vice presidential debate. The Biden campaign has informed CBS News that they have accepted the invitation to hold the debate in the studio on either July 23 or August 13, as proposed by the network.
“We look forward to the Trump campaign accepting one of these dates so that the full debate calendar for this campaign can be set,” the official added.