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Former President Donald Trump took to social media Monday night to criticize Vice President Kamala Harris after she declined his challenge to debate on Fox News.

A previously scheduled debate on the center-right network set for September 4th has been canceled, Fox News reports, after the Harris campaign informed the Trump campaign of her decision. The debate was to be moderated by Fox anchors Bret Baier and Martha MacCallum. Trump wrote on Truth Social, “I am not surprised by this development because I feel that she knows it is very difficult, at best, for her to defend her record setting Flip-Flopping on absolutely everything she once believed in, including her statements that THERE WILL BE NO FRACKING IN PENNSYLVANIA and her HORRIBLE Performance on the Border.” Instead of a Fox News debate, Trump stated he would attend a town hall hosted by anchor Sean Hannity on September 4th.

The former president initially doubted debating Vice President Harris, arguing for weeks that she cannot be the Democratic Party’s nominee due to other party leaders allegedly forcing President Joe Biden out of the race. Some mainstream media like New York Times columnist Maureen Dowd have agreed, while others, such as the Washington Post, view Trump’s resistance to Harris’s candidacy as an excuse to potentially deny election results if she wins. Harris is set to be officially nominated at this week’s Democratic National Convention, setting up a showdown on September 10th on ABC News.

A second debate offer from NBC News, scheduled for September 25th, has been accepted by Trump but not yet by Harris. Her campaign mentioned considering a second presidential debate in October. Meanwhile, vice presidential candidates Sen. J.D. Vance (R-OH) and Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz are set to debate on October 1st on CBS News. “Voters deserve to see the candidates for the highest office in the land share their competing visions for our future,” Harris’ communications director Michael Tyler said in a statement to Fox News. “The more they play games, the more insecure and unserious Trump and Vance reveal themselves to be to the American people. Those games end now.”

Besides evading debates, Vice President Harris has faced criticism from mainstream media for avoiding unscripted media interviews or press conferences. During a contentious interview last week, a spokesperson for Harris said she would complete a single sit-down interview by the end of August, yet did not specify when or where. “We absolutely are going to take questions from the press,” Michael Tyler recently said on CNN. “You heard her do it as she’s out on the stump,” possibly referring to a brief 70-second stop in front of a steel gate with reporters the prior week. “She said we’re going to be having a sit-down interview here before the end of the month. What she’s going to be focused on, and what this campaign’s going to be focused on, is communicating directly with the voters that are going to be deciding the pathway to 270 electoral votes.”

Harris’s advisors are likely concerned about unscripted remarks in a debate situation. Her statement about falling “out of a coconut tree” has drawn conservative criticism for its absurdity, while her allies have turned it into an online meme. Throughout the Biden administration, she has struggled with various roles such as “border czar,” ambassador to Africa, and point person on artificial intelligence. In defending President Joe Biden last year, she stated he is “very much alive.” During his own recent press event, former President Donald Trump described his new rival as “not very smart” and contrasted his lengthy, detailed appearance with Harris’s limited transparency.