Fox News Host Reveals Trump Is Running Scared from Debating Harris
Even Fox News is coming down on Donald Trump for chickening out of a second debate against Vice President Kamala Harris.During an interview Tuesday on Hugh Hewitt’s radio program, Fox News’s chief political anchor, Bret Baier, revealed that it’s the MAGA leader—not the Democrat—who’s holding up a potential policy showdown to be hosted by the conservative media behemoth.“The latest is, I actually believe—this is me talking—that the Harris campaign would do a Fox debate, if the former president has come to the conclusion that there really shouldn’t be another debate,” Baier said.“Now, his reasoning, I don’t know. I always thought that it would be like a bug zapper in the backyard for the former president in that he couldn’t get away from the light of 70 million viewers and that he would have to eventually, just knowing him, you know, do it if it was on Fox and something he could agree to,” Baier said.“I’m getting the sense from his campaign that they are moving past it, and really that the holdup is not the Harris campaign and Fox, but it’s the former president,” he added, calling the whole debacle a “missed opportunity” for the former reality TV star.In August, Trump said he would be open to going head-to-head against Harris three times before November, but his tune changed remarkably after the former prosecutor managed to thoroughly get under his skin during their first debate earlier this month. Over the weekend, Harris accepted an invitation from CNN to debate Trump in October, though Trump said he would not be participating.“Vice President Harris is ready for another opportunity to share a stage with Donald Trump, and she has accepted CNN’s invitation to a debate on October 23,” Harris campaign chair Jen O’Malley Dillon said in a statement released Saturday.Hours after his first disastrous performance against Harris, Trump posted a lengthy rant on Truth Social, accusing Harris of being a “no-show” at a Fox debate he had reportedly agreed to. He also insisted that “THERE WILL BE NO THIRD DEBATE!”
Even Fox News is coming down on Donald Trump for chickening out of a second debate against Vice President Kamala Harris.
During an interview Tuesday on Hugh Hewitt’s radio program, Fox News’s chief political anchor, Bret Baier, revealed that it’s the MAGA leader—not the Democrat—who’s holding up a potential policy showdown to be hosted by the conservative media behemoth.
“The latest is, I actually believe—this is me talking—that the Harris campaign would do a Fox debate, if the former president has come to the conclusion that there really shouldn’t be another debate,” Baier said.
“Now, his reasoning, I don’t know. I always thought that it would be like a bug zapper in the backyard for the former president in that he couldn’t get away from the light of 70 million viewers and that he would have to eventually, just knowing him, you know, do it if it was on Fox and something he could agree to,” Baier said.
“I’m getting the sense from his campaign that they are moving past it, and really that the holdup is not the Harris campaign and Fox, but it’s the former president,” he added, calling the whole debacle a “missed opportunity” for the former reality TV star.
In August, Trump said he would be open to going head-to-head against Harris three times before November, but his tune changed remarkably after the former prosecutor managed to thoroughly get under his skin during their first debate earlier this month.
Over the weekend, Harris accepted an invitation from CNN to debate Trump in October, though Trump said he would not be participating.
“Vice President Harris is ready for another opportunity to share a stage with Donald Trump, and she has accepted CNN’s invitation to a debate on October 23,” Harris campaign chair Jen O’Malley Dillon said in a statement released Saturday.
Hours after his first disastrous performance against Harris, Trump posted a lengthy rant on Truth Social, accusing Harris of being a “no-show” at a Fox debate he had reportedly agreed to. He also insisted that “THERE WILL BE NO THIRD DEBATE!”
