Sen. JD Vance on Saturday called former President Trump’s offer to debate Vice President Kamala Harris on Fox News in September a "masterstroke." (Joe Raedle/Getty Images)
Trump and Biden had previously been scheduled to debate on Sept. 10 on ABC.
Vance said Trump has "fairly" said about the previously scheduled debate, "I’m not going to do a debate before the Democratic National Convention because maybe they’ll switch out their nominee again."
The Democratic National Convention is scheduled for Aug. 19-22.
The Ohio senator added that Trump was "throwing down the gauntlet of ‘I was willing to go to CNN,' which is far more hostile to him than any network would be to Kamala Harris, and ‘Kamala Harris, why don’t you come and agree to a debate.
"The thing that we've learned about Kamala, Matt, over the last four years, is she's incredibly bad if she's not scripted, right?"
President Biden dropped his bid for re-election after a weak debate performance against former President Trump June 27. ( Eva Marie Uzcategui/Bloomberg via Getty Images)
Harris hit back at Trump’s offer for a new debate on X Saturday, writing, "It’s interesting how ‘any time, any place’ becomes ‘one specific time, one specific safe space.’ I’ll be there on September 10th, like he agreed to. I hope to see him there."
In the spring, Trump had called on Biden for a debate "any time, any place."
"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," Harris campaign communications director Michael Tyler told Fox News Digital. "He needs to stop playing games and show up to the debate he already committed to on Sept 10."
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Tyler said Harris would be at the previously scheduled ABC debate "one way or the other to take the opportunity to speak to a primetime 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."
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