Trump Calls for Next Presidential Debate to Be Held on Fox News

Former President Donald Trump speaks to media at Trump Tower, a day after he was found guilty on all 34 felony counts, in New York City on May 31, 2024. Juliette Fairley/The Epoch Times

Former President Donald Trump said that the next presidential debate should be hosted by Fox News, not ABC, after President Joe Biden dropped out of the presidential race.

Earlier this year, the Trump and Biden campaigns both agreed to two debates, with one being hosted on CNN in June and the other by ABC News in September.

“I think the Debate, with whomever the ... Democrats choose, should be held on Fox News, rather than very biased ABC,” he wrote in a Truth Social post on Sunday evening, hours after President Biden announced that he is suspending his 2024 campaign and endorsed Vice President Kamala Harris as the party’s nominee.

Moments after the end of the first debate, calls for President Biden to step down began, first from media outlets, then, over the past several weeks, an increasing number of Democrat lawmakers began urging him to step aside. The president and top Democratic Party politicians had—until Sunday—resisted calls to step down.

“While it has been my intention to seek reelection, I believe it is in the best interest of my party and the country for me to stand down and to focus solely on fulfilling my duties as President for the remainder of my term,” President Biden said in his letter posted to X on Sunday afternoon.

A subsequent post on the social media platform included his endorsement of Ms. Harris, who on Monday received endorsements from a number of top Democratic governors and congressional leaders. The official nominee will be finalized at the Democratic National Convention (DNC) next month.

With President Biden’s departure, it frees his delegates to vote for whomever they choose during the DNC. Ms. Harris is so far the only major declared Democratic Party candidate and has been working to quickly secure endorsements.

Additional endorsements for her on Monday include Maryland Gov. Wes Moore, Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer, Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker, and Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear, as well as former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.).

Ms. Harris wrote on social media that she will be heading to Delaware for “the first full day of our campaign” to speak to “our staff in HQ. One day down. 105 to go. Together, we’re going to win this.”

On Monday, the former president began targeting the vice president for her “border czar” role to address illegal immigration, a possible preview of his campaign messaging if she wins the Democratic Party’s nomination. In March 2021, President Biden announced Ms. Harris would engage in talks with Central American countries and Mexico to curb the number of illegal immigrants coming into the United States, which Republicans have repeatedly criticized.

Former President Trump, since he began his first presidential campaign for the 2016 race, has often made immigration one of his top priorities. In numerous campaign rallies this year, he has said he wants to initiate mass deportations of people who entered the United States illegally if he’s elected.

Before Sunday’s announcement, former President Trump and President Biden had been mostly tied in polls taken this year, but after the debate, several surveys showed the former president narrowly ahead of the president in a match-up for the November elections.

The ABC News debate is scheduled for Sept. 10. It’s not clear who the former president will debate or whether a new debate will be scheduled.

The Epoch Times contacted ABC News for comment Monday.