Donald Trump complains about “hostility” on TV and questions debate with Kamala Harris

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Washington.-Former US President and Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump (2017-2021) cast doubt on whether he will debate his Democratic rival Kamala Harris on ABC on September 10, although he maintained that he has no problem accepting the rules of face-to-face debate.

In a statement during a campaign event in Virginia, the New York tycoon criticized the channel’s “hostility” toward conservatives and criticized the fact that a change in rules was being considered.

“I’d rather do it on NBC. I’d rather do it on CBS. Frankly, I think CBS is very unfair, but the best of the bunch, and I’d certainly do it on Fox, even CNN. I think CNN treated us very fairly last time,” he said.

The last debate took place on June 27 with the then Democratic candidate, President Joe Biden, whose poor performance in that exchange ended up triggering his withdrawal from re-election in July.

In that first face-to-face meeting of the November 5 elections, the microphone of the candidate who was not speaking was muted.

The campaign of the current Democratic candidate, Vice President Kamala Harris, has asked the channel to change its position so that she can have the immediate right to reply.

“We agreed to the same rules. I don’t care. I would probably prefer to have it on, but the agreement was that it would be the same as last time. In that case, it was silent,” Trump said on Monday.

The Republican campaign has also turned its attention to criticizing the Democrat.

“If Kamala Harris isn’t smart enough to repeat the points her handlers want her to memorize, that’s her problem. This seems to be a pattern for the Harris campaign. They won’t let her do interviews or press conferences and now they want to give her notes to cheat,” said Jason Miller, Trump’s spokesman.

The disagreement over the rules comes a day after the former president said Republican Sen. Tom Cotton was treated poorly during an interview Sunday on ABC’s “This Week.”

The September 10 debate was already a done deal before Biden renounced his candidacy. Trump later proposed that there be three: September 4 on Fox News, September 10 on ABC and September 25 on NBC News, but the Democrats only accepted the one initially agreed upon.Infobae.