Lara Trump backpedals on Fox News after Trump tries to weasel out of Harris debate
Republican National Committee co-chair Lara Trump said her father-in-law was willing to debate Vice President Kamala Harris "anytime, anywhere, anyplace" after the former president suggested he would back out of a planned showdown on ABC.
After President Joe Biden announced that he would not be the Democratic presidential nominee on Sunday, Donald Trump called for a change to a more favorable debate venue.
"Now that Joe has, not surprisingly, has quit the race, I think the Debate, with whomever the Radical Left Democrats choose, should be held on FoxNews, rather than very biased ABC," he wrote in a post on his Truth Social platform.
Lara Trump was asked about the statement during a Monday interview on Fox News.
"I saw a post from former President Trump saying, you know, putting some question marks on the ABC September debate, which was supposed to be against Joe Biden again, and now I guess would be against Kamala Harris, also suggesting that maybe [Fox News] would do that debate," Fox News host Martha MacCallum explained. "Is that debate in flux? Is it a question mark now, Lara?"
Lara Trump insisted that the former president was not backing out of the ABC debate.
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"I think as far as Donald Trump has always said, anytime, anywhere, anyplace, he is willing to talk to the American people any opportunity he gets, and he's happy to go on a debate stage," she said.
"Donald Trump is not scared of a debate with Kamala Harris."
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