Source: THE AS­SO­CI­AT­ED PRESS

ABC News has con­firmed that both the Har­ris and Trump cam­paigns have agreed to par­tic­i­pate in a de­bate on Sep­tem­ber 10, 2024.

That was the date Trump had ini­tial­ly agreed to de­bate Pres­i­dent Biden be­fore the pres­i­dent dropped out of the race.

The for­mer Pres­i­dent held a news con­fer­ence at Mar-a-La­go on Thurs­day, in which he recom­mit­ted to de­bat­ing Vice Pres­i­dent Ka­mala Har­ris and taunt­ed her.

Dur­ing his hour­long news con­fer­ence, Trump re­peat­ed old false­hoods and lashed out at ques­tions about the en­thu­si­asm Har­ris’ cam­paign is re­ceiv­ing.

While Trump held his news con­fer­ence, Har­ris and Walz were show­ing their sup­port for or­ga­nized labour by ap­pear­ing at a Unit­ed Au­to Work­ers event in De­troit.

Har­ris de­clared her­self and her new run­ning mate “joy­ful war­riors” against Trump as they spent their first full day cam­paign­ing to­geth­er across the Mid­west. They saw how hot­ly con­test­ed the re­gion would be when they over­lapped on a Wis­con­sin tar­mac with Re­pub­li­can vice-pres­i­den­tial nom­i­nee JD Vance.

In her ad­dress to Unit­ed Au­to Work­ers, Ka­mala Har­ris tied her Oak­land, Cal­i­for­nia, up­bring­ing by a sin­gle moth­er with run­ning mate Walz’s child­hood in small-town Ne­bras­ka

“The same peo­ple raised us, good peo­ple, hard­work­ing peo­ple, peo­ple who had pride in their work,” she says in the De­troit union hall. “Peo­ple who had pride in know­ing we were a com­mu­ni­ty of peo­ple who looked out for each oth­er.”

“No one should ever be made to fight alone,” she said. “We are all in this to­geth­er.”

And Min­neso­ta Gov. Tim Walz was sound­ing a lit­tle hoarse af­ter his third day on the cam­paign trail.

“This is a bit of preach­ing to the choir. But the choir needs to sing. The choir needs to sing, right now,” Walz, Har­ris’ new run­ning mate, told a room full of Unit­ed Au­to Work­ers union mem­bers in a De­troit union hall.

The rasp in Walz’s voice didn’t stop him from join­ing in the chants that have be­come a reg­u­lar part of Har­ris’ ral­lies, “We’re not go­ing back! We’re not go­ing back! We’re not go­ing back!”

Mean­while, Vice Pres­i­dent Ka­mala Har­ris’ hus­band, Doug Emhoff, has ral­lied a group of en­thu­si­as­tic donors in Paris, France, telling them his wife is “ready” and heap­ing praise on her new­ly mint­ed run­ning mate, Gov. Tim Walz.

The pri­vate fundrais­er held in the French cap­i­tal’s 16th ar­rondisse­ment was host­ed by U.S. Sec­re­tary of State Antony Blinken’s moth­er, Ju­dith Pis­ar, the wid­ow of Holo­caust sur­vivor Samuel Pis­ar, who died in 2015. Or­ga­niz­ers said it had raised $285,000.

Emhoff was quick to high­light her choice of Walz, say­ing “she made the right choice” and tout­ed the gov­er­nor’s re­sume.

At the pri­vate Paris fundrais­er, Emhoff said he “can­not wait” to see his wife de­bate for­mer Pres­i­dent Trump.

He al­so urged the friend­ly crowd not to get “too com­fort­able” in the 89 days be­fore the pres­i­den­tial elec­tion.

Emhoff is in Paris as head of the U.S. del­e­ga­tion to the clos­ing cer­e­mo­ny and planned to watch U.S. teams com­pete at the end of the Games, in­clud­ing the U.S. men’s bas­ket­ball game against Ser­bia.