{"id":2306963,"date":"2024-07-23T16:17:02","date_gmt":"2024-07-23T20:17:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/trump-says-hell-absolutely-debate-harris-but-wants-new-terms-washington-examiner\/"},"modified":"2024-07-23T16:18:12","modified_gmt":"2024-07-23T20:18:12","slug":"trump-says-hell-absolutely-debate-harris-but-wants-new-terms-washington-examiner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/trump-says-hell-absolutely-debate-harris-but-wants-new-terms-washington-examiner\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump says he&#8217;ll &#8216;absolutely&#8217; debate Harris, but wants new terms &#8211; Washington Examiner"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Ftrump-says-hell-absolutely-debate-harris-but-wants-new-terms-washington-examiner%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2306963&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>The article discusses President Trump&#8217;s willingness to debate Vice \u200cPresident Kamala Harris. Trump expressed \u200dhis desire to debate Harris, stating\u2062 that \u200dit is important for a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/dems-lost-all-credibility-on-social-distancing-after-biden-celebrations\/\" title=\"Dems Lost All Credibility On Social Distancing After Biden Celebrations\">presidential race<\/a>. He also mentioned negotiating \u2062new terms for the\u200d debate. Some Democrats interpreted this as Trump refusing to\u200d debate Harris, but a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/donald-trump-the-bidens-got-rich-while-americans-got-robbed\/\" title=\"Donald Trump: &#039;The Bidens Got Rich While Americans Got Robbed&#039;\">campaign<\/a> spokesman\u200d dismissed these claims. Trump also mentioned being open to multiple debates with Harris, although \u200che expressed reservations about hosting the debates on ABC. The article also includes a tweet from author Stephen King regarding the potential debate.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<p><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><\/p>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-button\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-icon td-icon-mobile\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-header-search-button-mob dropdown-toggle\" data-toggle=\"dropdown\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-search-icon td-icon-search\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-button\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-icon td-icon-mobile\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<div class=\"tdb-drop-down-search\" aria-labelledby=\"td-header-search-button\">\n<div class=\"tdb-drop-down-search-inner\">\n<form method=\"get\" class=\"tdb-search-form\" action=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\"><\/form>\n<div class=\"tdb-aj-search\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/#\" role=\"button\" aria-label=\"Search\" class=\"tdb-head-search-btn dropdown-toggle\" data-toggle=\"dropdown\"><i class=\"tdb-search-icon td-icon-search\"><\/i><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<h1 class=\"tdb-title-text\">Trump says he&rsquo;ll &lsquo;absolutely&rsquo; debate Harris &mdash;&nbsp;but terms could be renegotiated<\/h1>\n<div><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-title-line\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<div id=\"Brid_1710695\" class=\"tpd-featured-video bridtv\"><\/div>\n<p>GOP presidential nominee <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/donald-trump\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"Donald Trump\">Donald Trump<\/a> says he will &ldquo;absolutely&rdquo; debate Vice President <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/kamala-harris\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"Kamala Harris\">Kamala Harris<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Oh yes, absolutely I&rsquo;d want to. I think it&rsquo;s important,&rdquo; Trump said, making a rare appearance on a conference call with reporters on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>Trump&rsquo;s presence on the call could be taken as a sign that his campaign is adjusting to running against Harris instead of President Joe Biden who was viewed by the GOP as a weak opponent. Nonetheless, Trump said debating her will not present a new challenge.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;I agreed to a debate with Joe Biden, but I want to debate her,&rdquo; Trump said. &ldquo;She&rsquo;ll be no different because they have the same policies. I think debating is important for a presidential race. I really do. I think that you sort of have an obligation to debate if you&rsquo;re the candidate of the Republican Party.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Trump reiterated that he wants to negotiate new terms in order to debate Harris, a stance that some Democrats have taken to mean that he refused to debate her. Novelist Stephen King, for example, wrote Monday that &ldquo;Trump has announced he won&rsquo;t debate Kamala Harris.&rdquo; <\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Trump has announced he won&#8217;t debate Kamala Harris.<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Stephen King (@StephenKing) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/StephenKing\/status\/1815483642753528073?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 22, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script data-cfasync=\"false\" src=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/cdn-cgi\/scripts\/5c5dd728\/cloudflare-static\/email-decode.min.js\"><\/script><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script> <\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p>In response, Trump campaign spokesman Steven Cheung <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsweek.com\/stephen-kings-post-potential-trump-harris-debate-goes-viral-1928806\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"told\">told<\/a> <em>Newsweek <\/em>that &ldquo;Stephen King is a dumba**.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Trump said Tuesday he&rsquo;d be willing to debate Harris more than once, though he added that he&rsquo;s not &ldquo;thrilled&rdquo; about hosting the debates on ABC, the original host network that Biden signed onto.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;They&rsquo;re truly fake news,&rdquo; he said of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/is-he-guilty-of-sexual-misconduct-depends-on-his-political-party\/\" title=\"Is He Guilty Of Sexual Misconduct? Depends On His Political Party.\">broadcast network<\/a>. &ldquo;I watched last night. They&rsquo;re actually trying to make a hero out of Joe Biden when he was the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/rigged-election-biden-won-477-counties-vs-obama-who-won-689-in-2012-yet-biden-magically-gained-13-million-more-votes-than-obama\/\" title=\"RIGGED ELECTION: Biden Won 477 Counties vs Obama Who Won 689 in 2012 - Yet Biden Magically Gained 13 Million More Votes Than Obama\">worst president<\/a> in history, and they were doing things with Kamala like saying what a wonderful thing it is that she&rsquo;s running. She is not the candidate that they should have. You know it, I know it, we all know it. So I&rsquo;m not thrilled with ABC.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Trump campaign pollster Tony Fabrizio issued a memo Tuesday predicting a &ldquo;Harris honeymoon&rdquo; that could hurt Trump&rsquo;s polling figures over the next two weeks. However, Fabrizio wrote that the fundamentals of the race have not changed and predicted that Harris will eventually be tied to Biden&rsquo;s record in the public mind.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/washingtonexaminer.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Later in the call Trump added that he hasn&rsquo;t agreed to anything debate-wise because the terms he previously agreed to were for a debate with Biden rather than Harris. But he reiterated his support of debates generally.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;It&rsquo;s just a two-party system [in the U.S.], plain and simple, and it was designed that way, and that&rsquo;s the way it is,&rdquo; Trump said. &ldquo;I think if you&rsquo;re the Democrat nominee or the Republican nominee, you really have an obligation to debate. So I think it&rsquo;s very important.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p> <script>!function(){var g=window;g.googletag=g.googletag||{},g.googletag.cmd=g.googletag.cmd||[],g.googletag.cmd.push(function(){g.googletag.pubads().setTargeting(\"has-featured-video\",\"true\")})}();<\/script><script>var _bp=_bp||[];_bp.push({\"div\":\"Brid_1710695\",\"obj\":{\"id\":\"27789\",\"width\":\"1280\",\"height\":\"720\",\"stickyDirection\":\"below\",\"video\":\"1710695\"}});<\/script><script defer src=\"https:\/\/services.brid.tv\/player\/build\/brid.min.js\"><\/script><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The article discusses President Trump&#8217;s willingness to debate Vice \u200cPresident Kamala Harris. Trump expressed \u200dhis desire to debate Harris, stating\u2062 that \u200dit is important for a presidential race. He also mentioned negotiating \u2062new terms for the\u200d debate. Some Democrats interpreted this as Trump refusing to\u200d debate Harris, but a campaign spokesman\u200d dismissed these claims. Trump &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2635,"featured_media":2306964,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/Trump-ear-bandage.webp","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[3896,4021,35926,3634,32076],"class_list":["post-2306963","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-debate","tag-harris","tag-new-terms","tag-trump","tag-washington-examiner"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/Trump-ear-bandage.webp","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2306963","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2635"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2306963"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2306963\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2306964"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2306963"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2306963"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2306963"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}