During a sit-down interview with Fox News’s Laura Ingraham, former President Donald Trump hinted that he’s contemplating debating Vice President Kamala Harris, but he also suggested there might be good reasons to avoid it.
With President Joe Biden stepping out of the presidential race and Kamala Harris swiftly gaining the majority of delegates’ support, Trump has begun questioning the upcoming debate scheduled for September 10, particularly because it’s being hosted by “fake news” ABC News. Trump made it clear that he won’t commit to debating Harris until she is officially the Democratic nominee, but Harris’s camp wasted no time in claiming that Trump is “scared.”
“I want to do a debate,” Trump stated. “But I can also say this. Everybody knows who I am. And now people know who she is.”
Trump emphasized the importance of holding the debate before early voting begins. “The answer is yes, but I can also make a case for not doing it,” he remarked.
Describing Harris, Trump didn’t hold back, labeling her as “far more radical left” than Biden. “She’s a worse candidate than him,” he asserted.
Ingraham also touched on comments Trump made at a Christian summit where he urged attendees to vote, promising that they “wouldn’t have to vote anymore” after this election because he would “fix the country.” Standing by his words, Trump explained, “That statement is very simple. I said vote for me, you’re not going to have to do it ever again. It’s true because we have to get the vote out. Christians are not known as a big voting group.”
Trump assured that he would “straighten out the country” for Christians so that they wouldn’t need to worry about voting again. “I won’t need your vote. You can go back to not voting,” he added. When Ingraham pressed if Trump meant they wouldn’t have to vote for him again because he wouldn’t be eligible to run in 2028, she noted that Democrats were twisting his words to suggest he would end democracy.
Trump claimed he hadn’t heard that criticism but insisted his goal was to mobilize Christian voters. “Christians do not vote well. They vote in very small percentages. Why? I don’t know. Maybe they’re disappointed in things that are happening,” he said. “I say, ‘You don’t vote. I’m saying go out, you must vote.’ But I said to the Christians in the room, thousands of them. I said, typically, Christians do not vote.”
