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WASHINGTON — Vice President Kamala Harris wouldn’t say Friday whether President Joe Biden will participate in general election debates against former President Donald Trump, and she also wouldn’t commit to a vice presidential debate herself.
In an interview with NBC News chief White House correspondent, Peter Alexander, Harris said she hasn’t spoken to the president about the possibility of him debating Trump, but said it would be a stark “split screen.”
“On the one hand, you’ve got Joe Biden — someone who is competent, who is principled, who has accomplished more than many presidents even hoped for … on infrastructure, on climate, on health care,” Harris said. “On the other side of that split screen, you’ve got the former president, who glorifies dictators and has said he’ll be a dictator on day one. Someone who has said that he will weaponize the Department of Justice against his political enemies. Someone who said he’s proud of the fact that he had picked three members of the United States Supreme Court, who took a constitutional right from the women of America to make decisions about their own body.”
“The split screen is clear,” she said, adding that the choice of debating Trump will be “decided upon soon.”
