Fox News Announces Surprise VP Debate — Outside Biden Terms — Trump Immediately Accepts

Fox News anchor Bret Baier announced a surprise debate proposal for vice presidential candidates Friday, even though former President Donald Trump hasn’t yet announced his V.P. pick.

That didn’t stop Trump from immediately accepting Baier’s offer, however.

“Now there’s a pitch specifically for the vice presidential debate. It went out about half hour ago to both campaigns suggesting that,” Baier said. “In addition, the Fox News media has reached out to Virginia State University, VSU, as the possible location, since it was selected by the Commission on Presidential Debates to be the first historically Black college or university to host a presidential debate. So, we are making this formal request for a vice presidential of debate either July 23rd, August 13th, or after the RNC and DNC conventions.”

Baier then announced:

And just in the past few minutes as that has gone out, I have received this from former President Trump and the campaign: “On behalf of the future vice president of the United States, who I have not yet chosen, we hereby accept the Fox vice presidential debate, hopefully at Virginia State University, the first historically Black college or university to host a debate. Date to be determined. I urge Vice President Kamala Harris to agree to this. Make America Great Again!”

Again, that’s from the former President and his campaign. So, we will see about the Biden-Harris campaign response and where we go from here. Obviously, we have the CNN and ABC debate that has been agreed to, have been agreed to already, and we’ll see what else happens. This is a strange dynamic in getting these things locked down but we are doing it in short order.

Harris has already committed to debating Trump’s V.P. pick on CBS in July or August.

Martha MacCallum added, “Wild West is a great way to put it… it’s not what the Presidential Commission on Debates wanted to see. They like to be the bipartisan organization that brings these things together, provides a forum to hash out the rules both sides will agree to…I think a lot of people look at the presentation on the Biden side as laying down the rules. ‘This is what we want.’ And I guess to former President Trump’s credit, he was like, ‘Ok, fine.'”

Trump announced Wednesday that he was accepting a “surprise third debate” with Joe Biden on Fox News. The Biden campaign has yet to respond.

Watch the clip above via Fox News.

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