Vice President Kamala Harris has agreed to go up against Donald Trump’s running mate nominee JD Vance in a televised debate.
She has agreed on a head to head debate on July 23 or August 12 or 13, a campaign official said on Wednesday.
CBS News had offered to host the debate and Mrs Harris accepted. However the Trump campaign also wants a debate on Fox News.
Republicans celebrating former President Donald Trump's decision to select Ohio Senator JD Vance as a running mate, are eagerly anticipating the debate.
Mr Vance, 39, is being formally made Mr Trump’s pick for vice president at the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee. He will make an acceptance speech at the convention on Wednesday evening.
Mrs Harris and Mr Vance spoke on the phone on Tuesday and she congratulated him on his nomination.
Tony Fabrizio,Mr Trump’s pollster and a senior adviser to his campaign, said on Wednesday that Mr Vance will “absolutely” help in pivotal Rust Belt states such as Michigan, Wisconsin and Pennsylvania, where the senator’s blue collar roots and populist views are popular.
“His story is a compelling story,” Mr Fabrizio said while speaking at an event hosted by the University of Chicago Institute of Politics and The Cook Political Report.
“You will see JD Vance planted in the Rust Belt states very heavily between now and Election Day,” Mr Fabrizio said. “Which leaves, by the way, the president the opportunity to go to other states that might expand the electoral map.”
Meanwhile nearly two-thirds of Democrats say President Joe Biden should withdraw from the presidential race and let his party nominate a different candidate, according to a new poll, sharply undercutting his post-debate claim that "average Democrats" are still with him even if some "big names" are turning on him.
The new survey by the AP-NORC Centre for Public Affairs Research, conducted as Mr Biden works to salvage his candidacy two weeks after his debate flop, also found that only about three in 10 Democrats are extremely or very confident that he has the mental capability to serve effectively as president, down slightly from 40% in a similar poll in February.
