Trump confirms ABC News debate with Harris is on

YEREVAN, AUGUST 28, ARMENPRESS. Former U.S. President Donald Trump confirmed Tuesday that his presidential debate with Vice President Kamala Harris on ABC News is still on, after appearing to suggest that the network shows too much “hostility” toward Republicans for him to attend the event, POLITICO reports.

The Republican nominee said in a Truth Social post Tuesday that the rules of the Sept. 10 debate will remain the same as the ones that he and President Joe Biden agreed to ahead of their June CNN debate, when each candidate’s microphone was muted while their opponent was speaking.

But the Harris campaign rejects the claim that the Sept. 10 debate will have the same rules from June. The issue regarding whether mics will be turned on during the entire debate is still being discussed, a Harris campaign official said.

The rules of the debate have become a point of contention between the two campaigns in recent days, POLITICO reported, over the issue of whether mics should or should not be muted.

“The Debate will be ‘stand up,’ and Candidates cannot bring notes, or ‘cheat sheets,’” Trump said in the Truth Social post. “We have also been given assurance by ABC that this will be a ‘fair and equitable’ Debate, and that neither side will be given the questions in advance.”

Trump has proposed additional debates with NBC News and Fox News, but the Sept. 10 event is the only agreed-upon date between the two candidates.