Two days after Vice President Kamala Harris entered the race for the White House, Donald Trump said that he would “absolutely” face her in a debate. In fact, he told reporters he was “willing to do more than one debate actually.”
But that attitude didn’t survive a week in which Harris hit the ground running, raising huge amounts of funds and enthusiastic volunteers. Only two days after Trump said “absolutely,” he produced excuses for why he wouldn’t debate Harris. He wouldn’t, he said, because former President Barack Obama was “holding out for someone ‘better.’” But that excuse came less than a day before both Barack and Michelle Obama gave their full endorsements to Harris.
Harris then challenged Trump again, telling him to “say it to my face” by joining her in a debate. But Trump’s campaign only redrew the line, saying he wouldn’t agree to debate her because she wasn’t the Democratic nominee. It was a ridiculous argument then, and it’s even more ridiculous now that Harris has officially secured the delegates to be the nominee.
But on Friday, Trump went on Fox Business Network to give an excuse so twisted that just reading it may cause brain damage.
