After DNC unveils ad saying he's 'afraid' to debate Harris, Trump demands new Pennsylvania date

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

68% : Trump called the Sept. 4 date "convenient and appropriate in that it is just prior to the September 6th start of Early Voting in the 2024 Presidential Election," in another social post Friday.
53% : "Trump and President Joe Biden, who ended his reelection campaign last month, in May had agreed to two debates: one on June 27 on CNN, and another on Sept. 10, that was to be broadcast on ABC News.
47% : The DNC on Friday launched a new ad campaign to be displayed on major newspaper websites in battleground states where Trump is campaigning, starting with the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, that say the former president is "afraid to debate" Harris.
40% : Trump had pushed for debates for months, saying he would debate Biden "anytime, anywhere, anyplace."
33% : The Moderators of the Debate will be Bret Baier and Martha MacCallum," Trump wrote in a post to his Truth Social network.
32% : The DNC plans to replicate the ads running in Atlanta on the websites of other major newspapers in swing states on days Trump will be stumping in those states.
13% : Trump claimed that the Sept. 10 debate "has been terminated in that Biden will no longer be a participant," and gave another reason in the post to his Truth Social platform late Friday:
9% : That lawsuit, filed in March claims that Stephanopoulos defamed Trump by saying during a March 10 segment of his "This Week" show that Trump had been found liable for raping the writer E. Jean Carroll.
8% : A jury in May found Trump liable for sexual abuse of Carroll stemming from a 1996 incident, which Trump has denied.
6% : But during a July 23 call with reporters when Trump said he would be "willing to do more than one debate" with Harris, he said he was not sure he wanted to take part in the Sept. 10 debate because he "agreed to a debate with Joe Biden," and not Harris.
3% : But the Harris campaign said Saturday that Trump had already agreed to a debate on Sept. 10."Donald Trump is running scared and trying to back out of the debate he already agreed to and running straight to Fox News to bail him out," Michael Tyler, Harris campaign communications director said in a statement emailed to the Capital-Star.

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