Trump says he can ‘make a case’ for not debating Kamala Harris

During a sit-down interview with Fox News’s Laura Ingraham, former President Donald Trump said he is leaning toward debating Vice President Kamala Harris but “can also make a case for not doing it.”

When President Joe Biden stepped out of the presidential race, and Harris immediately received the support of the majority of the delegates, Trump began to question having the next debate scheduled for Sept. 10 being hosted by “fake news” ABC News.

Trump said he wouldn’t commit to a debate with Harris until she becomes the Democratic nominee, but the Harris campaign claimed he is “scared.”

“I want to do a debate,” Trump said. “But I also can say this. Everybody knows who I am. And now people know who she is.”

Trump said it is important for the debate to be held before early voting begins.

“The answer is yes, but I can also make a case for not doing it,” he said.

Trump described Harris as “far more radical left” than Biden.

“She’s a worse candidate than him,” Trump said.

Ingraham also brought up comments that Trump made at a Christian summit in which he urged attendees to vote and promised they “wouldn’t have to vote anymore” after this election because he would “fix the country.”

Trump didn’t back down from making those comments.

“That statement is very simple,” Trump said. “I said vote for me, you’re not going to have to do it ever again. It’s true because we have to get the vote out. Christians are not known as a big voting group.”

He said he would “straighten out the country” for Christians so that they wouldn’t have to worry about voting again.

“I won’t need your vote. You can go back to not voting,” Trump added.

Ingraham asked if Trump meant they wouldn’t have to vote for him again because he would not be eligible to run again in 2028. She then brought up that Democrats were twisting his words to mean he would bring an end to democracy.

Trump said he had not heard that criticism but insisted he wanted to encourage Christian voters to come out and vote for him.

“Christians do not vote well. They vote in very small percentages. Why? I don’t know. Maybe they’re disappointed in things that are happening,” Trump said. “I say, ‘You don’t vote. I’m saying go out, you must vote.’ But I said to the Christians in the room, thousands of them. I said, typically, Christians do not vote.”

However, former Biden White House communications director Kate Bedingfield said she thinks Trump only cares about Christians voting now since this will be the time he will appear on the ballot.

“I think he is saying I won’t be on the ticket either way, so who cares,” she posted on X. “Which is hideously damning in its own right, cause this is what the Republican Party has turned itself inside out and shredded its credibility for — to become a stan account for this one awful, narcissistic guy.”