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EXCLUSIVE: Harris Campaign Attempts To Mask Its Own Retreat With Outright Lie About Debates

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The Trump campaign said Friday that the Kamala Harris campaign lied when it claimed the two sides reached a debate agreement a day prior.

After former President Donald Trump announced that he proposed three presidential debates, the Harris campaign released a statement Thursday claiming that Trump had “accepted our proposal for three debates — two presidential and a vice presidential debate.” National Press Secretary for the Trump campaign, Karoline Leavitt, told the Daily Caller that the statement was a lie, and the former president will be on the debate stage for his three proposed events, in addition to two VP matchups.

“Let’s be clear: President Trump will be on the debate stage THREE times with Fox News, ABC and NBC/Telemundo. Likewise, Senator Vance will show up to debate Tim Walz on TWO occasions, on September 18 with CNN and October 1 with CBS. If Harris and Walz don’t show up, an empty podium can stand in their place, proving to the American people just how weak they are,” Leavitt continued.

In its Thursday statement, the Harris campaign wrote that if Trump shows up to a Sept. 10 debate, then Americans “will have another opportunity to see the vice president and Donald Trump on the debate stage in October.” Leavitt told the Caller that there has not been a proposed October debate discussed, despite the Harris campaign’s statement.

“There’s been no proposal from a network for an October debate. They’re just throwing that out there needlessly,” Leavitt told the Caller.

“President Trump committed to three debates. Kamala should commit to the same three debates. We both, both campaigns, received the exact same debate invitations from those three networks,” she added.

The Harris campaign began its statement by claiming “the debate about debates is over.” Leavitt indicated that is far from the truth.

“Harris’s advisors do not trust her competence and skills to debate President Trump. So they are trying to get away with seeing how she performs on the September debate, and then maybe they’ll commit to an October debate. That’s not how this works,” Leavitt told the Caller.

“Kamala Harris is a COWARD. She refuses to do a press conference, refuses to take a sit-down interview, and refuses to accept the three debate invitations agreed to by President Trump. Harris won’t speak unscripted because she can’t defend her dangerously liberal record and failed four years in the White House,” Leavitt said.

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Reagan Reese

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Trump Agrees To Fox News Debate Against Kamala Harris

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Former President Donald Trump has agreed to debate Vice President Kamala Harris on Fox News in early September.

The debate would be held on Sept. 4 in Pennsylvania at a location to be determined with a live audience, broadcasted on Fox News and moderated by Fox anchors Bret Baier and Martha MacCallum, Trump wrote in a Friday night post on Truth Social. Trump was initially scheduled to debate President Joe Biden on ABC in September, but plans have apparently changed after Biden imploded at the June 27 debate against Trump, quit the race July 21 and endorsed Harris.

“I have agreed with FoxNews to debate Kamala Harris on Wednesday, September 4th. The Debate was previously scheduled against Sleepy Joe Biden on ABC, but has been terminated in that Biden will no longer be a participant, and I am in litigation against ABC Network and George Stephanopoulos, thereby creating a conflict of interest,” Trump wrote in his Truth Social post. “The FoxNews Debate will be held in the Great Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, at a site in an area to be determined. The Moderators of the Debate will be Bret Baier and Martha MacCallum, and the Rules will be similar to the Rules of my Debate with Sleepy Joe, who has been treated horribly by his Party – BUT WITH A FULL ARENA AUDIENCE!”

Fox News Digital also reported on Trump agreeing to debate Harris. Fox News previously invited both candidates to debate each other on the network on Sept. 17, according to the outlet.

“Donald Trump is running scared and trying to back out of the debate he already agreed to and running straight to Fox News to bail him out. He needs to stop playing games and show up to the debate he already committed to on Sept 10,” Harris campaign communications director Michael Tyler said, according to NBC News. “The Vice President will be there one way or the other to take the opportunity to speak to a prime time national audience. We’re happy to discuss further debates after the one both campaigns have already agreed to. Mr. Anytime, anywhere, anyplace should have no problem with that unless he’s too scared to show up on the 10th.”

Harris, who has clinched the Democratic nomination and is expected to soon announce her running mate, has said that she is prepared to square off with Trump on the debate stage, and she has suggested that the former president was trying to wiggle his way out of the Sept. 10 ABC debate, according to the Associated Press.

In another Friday night post to Truth Social, Trump also ripped Democrats for “unceremoniously” pushing Biden off the ticket in favor of Harris.

“As everyone knows, the Democrats have Unconstitutionally taken a Candidate, who was acknowledged to be defeated, and unceremoniously replaced him with a new Candidate. This has never been done before, and is a Threat to Democracy, but I am totally prepared to accept the results of this ‘coup,’ and replace Joe on the Debate stage with Crazy Kamala Harris,” Trump wrote. “I spent Hundreds of Millions of Dollars, Time, and Effort fighting Joe, and when I won the Debate, they threw a new Candidate into the ring. Not fair, but it is what it is! Nevertheless, different Candidate or not, their bad Policies are the same, and this will be strongly revealed at the September 4th Debate. I look forward to meeting and debating Kamala Harris on September 4th.”

The Harris campaign did not respond immediately to a request for comment.

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Nick Pope

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MORGAN MURPHY: Biden May Help Create A Generation Of New Republicans

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After last week’s presidential debate, many Democrats are likely feeling the same way I felt as a new, young Democrat, back in 1998. Deceived.

You can hear the disappointment, grief and shock coming from all quarters: during live coverage on MSNBC, from the editorial boardroom of the New York Times, in the halls of Congress. The truth laid bare is that President Joe Biden is unfit for another four years in office.

But why the shock?

Watching the first debate of 2024 between Biden and former President Donald Trump, I actually thought Biden did pretty well — for Biden. The president walked to the right podium, stood for 90 minutes and took questions.  As the First Lady told her husband after the debate, he answered them all, too.

The president’s condition didn’t surprise Republicans because we have been sending each other memes for years — Biden lost on stage and falling off a bike; Biden being led away by the Easter Bunny or coached by Jill; Biden falling up Air Force One’s stairs or toppling over at the Air Force Academy graduation.

The president’s infirmities, mumbles and rambling at the debate seemed no worse than usual.

But to Democrats?  The uncut, unvarnished, unscripted Joe Biden was a disaster.

It would seem they believed senior Democrats like Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer, who promised in February: “He’s fine. All this right-wing propaganda that his mental acuity has declined is wrong.” Or Nancy Pelosi: “[H]e’s very sharp.”

Even in the wake of Special Counsel Robert Hur’s assessment that Biden is an “elderly man with a poor memory,” the White House press corps seemed to look the other way. When videos popped up of the president wandering off or getting lost, they were mostly ignored by the corps, who embraced the White House spin of “cheap fakes.”

Then Americans saw the genuine article. According to a post-debate poll from the Wall Street Journal, 80 percent of the country now believes the president is too old for the job.

That number may grow in the coming weeks.

We detest lies and liars because they make us question ourselves. To be taken in by a lie leaves that sinking feeling in the gut: How did I allow myself to be played?

I learned that lesson 26 years ago as a young man when I believed President Bill Clinton’s lie, “I want to say one thing to the American people. I want you to listen to me, and I’m going to say it again: I did not have sexual relations with that woman, Ms. Lewinsky.”

Not only did I believe the president, but I sincerely defended him to my Republican friends and family: “He’s the president of the United States!”

In wagging his finger at America and flat-out lying, Clinton embarrassed not just himself, his family and the office, but worse, he made fools of those, like me, who supported him the most.

So, when the truth came out, I was shocked, followed by stunned disbelief. Then anger settled in. Eventually, Clinton’s lie led me to abandon the Democratic Party and become a Republican.

Last week four years of lies collapsed in 90 minutes. It may well lead to a generation of new Republicans.

The views and opinions expressed in this commentary are those of the author and do not reflect the official position of the Daily Caller News Foundation.

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MORGAN MURPHY

Morgan Murphy is a former DoD press secretary, national security adviser in the U.S. Senate, a veteran of Afghanistan.

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PREDICTION: Fox’s Chris Wallace Will Never Moderate a Presidential Debate Again

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That is my prediction of course.  And, heck, maybe last night’s train wreck of a Presidential debate will cool enthusiasm for any more debates this year (or forever!).

I got up this morning pretty down-in-the-dumps after staying up past my bedtime for what I expected would be a hot debate, but never dreamed it would go off the rails as badly as it did.

Not long into the debate it became clear that Biden and Wallace were double-teaming to take down Trump.  Furious, I switched to watching comments fly by on twitter and realized it was apparent to everyone, Left and Right, that Wallace had stepped in to debate Trump whenever Trump sought a response from Biden.

Because I am too lazy to do it, I am so glad to see this compilation by Ryan Saavedra at the Daily Wire of many of the tweets I read in real time last night—tweets that told me that I wasn’t imaging things!

Chris Wallace Faces Intense Backlash, Including From Colleagues, Over Bias During Debate

Fox News host Chris Wallace, a registered Democrat, faced intense backlash on Tuesday night for what was widely deemed as bias in the debate in the favor of Democrat Joe Biden and against Republican President Donald Trump.

One of the issues that Wallace was called out for the most was how he appeared to let Biden interrupt Trump but would jump in to interrupt Trump when Trump would talk over Biden.

Fox News host Brian Kilmeade even noted the discrepancy and called it out on social media, writing: “Why is @JoeBiden allowed to interrupt? @realDonaldTrump is not.”

Continue reading here to see what many citizen and media commenters said on the subject.

By the way, as hot as Trump was he did not call Biden names while Biden called Trump a liar and a clown.

LOL!  One good thing about last night was Joe Biden’s efforts to distance himself from his radical Left base. 

I’m guessing that right now AOC and her gang are working on a plan for him to be so sick he wouldn’t be able to continue in a role as Prez of the US right after inauguration day (if he should win).

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