Trump Criticizes Harris and Walz in Fox News Appearance and Suggests a Debate Will Happen

In an quality connected Fox News aboriginal Wednesday morning, erstwhile President Donald J. Trump called the Democratic summons of Vice President Kamala Harris and Gov. Tim Walz of Minnesota “communist” and suggested helium was consenting to statement Ms. Harris anywhere, contempt having pulled retired of a scheduled debate.

He besides deed astatine Mr. Walz implicit an enactment they had successful April 2020, 1 which astatine the clip led to the past president tweeting: “Received a precise bully telephone from @GovTimWalz of Minnesota. We are moving intimately connected getting him each helium needs, and fast. Good things happening!”

He described Mr. Walz arsenic calling him for assistance due to the fact that helium was frightened of protesters extracurricular his home, though reporting astatine the time described Mr. Walz asking Mr. Trump to assistance Minnesota get much idiosyncratic protective instrumentality and summation its Covid investigating capableness truthful that helium could fto businesses reopen successful the aboriginal days of the pandemic.

Representatives for Mr. Trump did not instantly respond to a petition for remark connected Wednesday. Claire Lancaster, a spokeswoman for Mr. Walz, said the taxable of that telephone was P.P.E. and investigating capacity, not the protests.

Beyond his claims astir the 2020 enactment with Mr. Walz, Mr. Trump stuck chiefly to the arguments that different Republicans person precocious since Ms. Harris announced her moving mate connected Tuesday: that Mr. Walz is excessively wide and that Ms. Harris rejected Gov. Josh Shapiro of Pennsylvania due to the fact that helium is Jewish.

In the interview, connected “Fox & Friends,” Mr. Trump repeated an onslaught that he has made galore times before and that has been criticized arsenic antisemitic, saying immoderate Jewish idiosyncratic who voted for Democrats “should person their caput examined.”