Vice President Kamala Harris has agreed to debate former President Donald Trump’s eventual pick for his running mate.
Harris accepted an invitation to debate Trump’s eventual vice-presidential pick during the summer, offering July 23 and August 13 as options.
Trump is expected to announce his vice-presidential pick during the GOP convention, which begins on July 15.
TRUMP ACCEPTS BIDEN OFFER TO DEBATE HIM IN JUNE AND SEPTEMBER
President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris walk back to the Oval Office after an event in the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington, D.C. (Drew Angerer/Getty Images)
“I don’t say anything is 100%, but you’re getting pretty close,” Trump said of selecting his running mate. “I’ll be doing it in Milwaukee. We’re going to have a great time.”
An official with the Biden campaign told Politico they “look forward to the Trump campaign accepting one of these dates so that the full debate calendar for this campaign can be set.”
The debate will be broadcast by CBS News and hosted inside the network’s studios.
WHY BIDEN DID THE DEBATE THROWDOWN, TRUMP AGREED, AND THE RISKS FOR EACH SIDE
Former President Donald Trump headlines a Republican National Committee spring donor retreat, in Palm Beach, Florida. (Donald Trump 2024 campaign)
In a letter obtained by Fox News Digital, the Biden-Harris campaign proposed that the first debate be in late June, after Trump’s New York criminal trial is likely to be over and after Biden returns from meeting with world leaders at the G-7 Summit.
A second presidential debate would occur in September prior to the beginning of early voting.
The Biden-Harris campaign asked that the debates occur inside a TV studio, with microphones that automatically cut off when a speaker’s time limit elapses.
Donald Trump argues with Joe Biden during the first 2020 U.S. presidential debate hosted in Cleveland, Ohio. (Getty Images )
The letter also asked that the debates involve just the two candidates and the moderator — without “an in-person audience with raucous or disruptive partisans and donors” that Trump feeds on.
They also want the debates without the participation of Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. or other independent or third-party candidates.
Fox News Digital’s Brooke Singman and Danielle Wallace contributed to this report.
Timothy Nerozzi is a writer for Fox News Digital. You can follow him on Twitter @timothynerozzi and can email him at timothy.nerozzi@fox.com
