Fox News anchor Bret Baier said on Tuesday that he believes Vice President Kamala Harris is willing to participate in a debate on his network, while former President Donald Trump appears to be unwilling.
Trump previously agreed to debate on Fox News on Sept. 4, but the vice president never consented to the match-up. Baier told radio host Hugh Hewitt he is surprised by Trump’s apparent reluctance to debate Harris again, asserting that he thinks Harris would now accept an invitation to debate on Fox News.
“The latest is, I actually believe — this is me talking — that the Harris campaign would do a Fox debate … The former president has come to the conclusion that there really shouldn’t be another debate,” Baier said. “Now, his reasoning, 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. I’m getting the sense from him and the campaign that they aren’t moving past it, and really the hold-up is not the Harris campaign and Fox; it is the former president.”