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President Donald Trump confirmed that he plans to attend three debates with Kamala Harris, and further announced the dates for which the events will take place.
In a post to Truth Social, President Trump wrote on Sunday that their first debate will take place on Wednesday, Sept. 4, while the second is set to occur days later on Tuesday, Sept. 10, with ABC News’s David Muir as moderator.
While discussing the second debate, the president further called ABC the “home of George Slopadopoulos,” seemingly barbing the network’s host George Stephanopoulos, for whom President Trump is suing over comments the host made back in March when he wrongly asserted that the Republican nominee was found “liable for rape” in a civil case several times on air, Fox News reported.
ABC ultimately failed in its lawsuit to have the defamation suit dismissed, the outlet found.
Furthermore, the third debate, according to the president, would take place on Wednesday, Sept. 25, and be hosted by NBC News’s Lester Holt in Grand Rapids, Michigan.
“The first Debate with Kamala Harris, for President of the United States of America, will be with FoxNews on September 4th, 2024, LIVE from beautiful Harrisburg, Pennsylvania,” the president wrote on Truth Social.
He continued, “The second Debate will take place on Fake News ABC, home of George Slopadopoulos, to be anchored by David Muir, on September 10th, 2024, at Independence Hall in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The third Debate will take place on NBC, in Grand Rapids, Michigan, on September 25th, 2024, to be anchored by Lester Holt.”
“Details to follow. I look forward to seeing Kamala at all three Debates! DJT,” he concluded.
The Sept. 4 debate will mark the first time that President Trump and Harris face off toe-to-toe on the debate stage. Per Forbes, the second debate from Sept. 10 was also originally scheduled to be the second debate between the president and Joe Biden.
The event will also serve as Harris’s first time debating any candidate since the 2020 Democrat presidential primaries, thus making the stakes even higher for her recently launched 2024 campaign.
