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Republican vice presidential nominee JD Vance and his Democratic counterpart, Tim Walz, are set to take part in a debate hosted by CBS on October 1 after the Ohio senator accepted the invitation Thursday, a day after the Minnesota governor did the same.
Vance additionally proposed an extra vice presidential debate, writing that he has accepted CNN’s invitation to debate on September 18. CNN has reached out to the Kamala Harris marketing campaign for remark.
“The American folks deserve as many debates as potential, which is why President Trump has challenged Kamala to 3 of them already. Not solely do I settle for the CBS debate on October 1st, I settle for the CNN debate on September 18th as properly. I sit up for seeing you at each!” Vance posted on social media Thursday.
Walz accepted the CBS invitation in a social media publish a day earlier, writing, “See you on October 1, JD.”
CBS Information provided the candidates two dates in September and two dates in October as choices for a debate in New York Metropolis.
In Might, earlier than President Joe Biden dropped out of the race, Harris accepted an invitation from CBS to debate Donald Trump’s future operating mate on both July 23 or August 13. Trump mentioned on his Reality Social platform on the time that his marketing campaign had accepted an invite for his future operating mate to take part in a Fox Information debate.
Trump named Vance as his operating mate final month. Harris ascended to the top of the Democratic ticket shortly after Biden ended his reelection marketing campaign, and he or she picked Walz as her operating mate final week.
Harris and Trump have agreed to meet for a presidential debate on ABC Information on September 10. Will probably be the second presidential debate of the 12 months, following Trump’s faceoff with Biden on CNN in late June. Biden’s dismal efficiency at that debate set off alarm bells amongst Democrats that culminated with him exiting the race.