‘What happened to any time, any place?’: Kamala Harris trolls Trump as he backs out of debate
Kamala Harris has trolled Donald Trump by using his words against him after the Republican presidential nominee backed out of a proposed television debate.
“What happened to ‘any time, any place’?” the vice president posted on X late on Thursday night.
Trump had previously used those words back in March to lay down the gauntlet to President Joe Biden as the two rivals sparred about when and where they would face each other on the debate stage.
But, now that Biden has stepped aside and Harris has become the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee, the former president appears to have gotten cold feet.
On Thursday, Harris was asked by reporters at Joint Base Andrews in Maryland about debating Trump.
She said she was “ready” to go head-to-head with the former president on stage but accused him of “backpedaling” on his commitment to the debate provisionally scheduled for September 10 on ABC News.
“I have agreed to the previously agreed upon September 10 debate,” she said.
“He agreed to that previously. Now, here he is backpedaling and I’m ready and I think the voters deserve to see the split screen that exists in this race on a debate stage and so I’m ready to go.”
Trump’s campaign team subsequently confirmed that he would not commit to debating Harris – at least not yet – blaming Democratic instability for the u-turn.
“Given the continued political chaos surrounding Crooked Joe Biden and the Democrat Party, general election details cannot be finalized until Democrats formally decide on their nominee,” the Trump campaign’s communications director Steven Cheung said in a statement.
“There is a strong sense by many in the Democrat Party – namely Barack Hussein Obama – that Kamala Harris is a Marxist fraud who cannot beat