Kamala Harris agrees to ONE debate with Trump and ONE unspecified interview

Kamala Harris finally broke her media silence on Thursday when she answered limited questions from reporters who had been patiently waiting for her to acknowledge them. First, she answered a single question from an NBC reporter in Wayne, Minn. She said that she's agreed to one debate and intends to have an interview scheduled "before the end of the month."

"Madame Vice President, Donald Trump agreed to three debates, will you be participating in all three?" The reporter asked at the local UAW location where Harris had been speaking. 

"I've always been on record," she said, "I am looking forward to debating Donald Trump and we have a date of September 10, I hear he has finally committed to it and I am looking forward to it." She walked away before the reporter could get an answer to his follow-up question about the other two dates.

Earlier on Thursday, Trump gave a press conference at Mar-a-Lago in Florida where he said he'd committed to all three debates offered by the major networks, as well as a CBS-hosted debate for the vice presidential candidates, JD Vance and Tim Walz. Those include a Fox News debate on Sept. 4, ABC on Sept. 10, and another on Sept. 25 with NBC. Harris has only agreed to one of those, and it was the ABC debate that her predecessor on the Democrat ticket, President Joe Biden, had agreed to.

Harris later made her way from her motorcade at the Detroit airport to a group of waiting reporters who had the same questions. "Whatcha got?" She asked reporters.

"President Trump had a press conference today," a reporter asked, "he talked about a lot of things. I wonder if you have a reaction to what he talked about."

"Well," she said, "I'm glad he's finally agreed to a debate on September 10, I'm looking forward to it, and um, hope he shows up."

"Are you open to more debates?" She was asked.

"I am happy to have that conversation about an additional debate," she said, "for after September 10."

"He proposed two more," another reporter asked, "two more debates."

"Like I said," Harris reiterated, "I'm happy to have that conversation."

"Why do you think he pulled out of a debate with you?" The reporter asked, with the false premise that Trump refused to debate Harris.

"I am beyond trying to speculate about how he thinks," Harris said before fielding another softball question. "What else?"

"Would you comment on some of his other criticisms?" Another reporter asked. "He made a whole litany of them today." The reporter asked about her VP pick Minnesota Governor Tim Walz and the allegations of stolen valor against him. 

Harris praised Walz's service, saying "we all should." 

She was asked when she would sit down for her first interview "as the nominee," a position she has now held for 20 days. She has not taken questions, other than these, since that announcement. 

"I'm talking to my team," she said, "I want us to get an interview settled before the end of the month." Then she walked away.