The announcement of Vice P
resident Kamala Harris as the Democratic Party’s new nominee after Biden dropped out of the 2024 US presidential election has sparked a wave of misinformation on social media platforms. We also came across one such post by American author Stephen King asserting that Trump has announced he won’t debate Kamala Harris.
Taking to X, he wrote: “Trump has announced he won’t debate Kamala Harris.”
The Post has accumulated around 18 million views on X.
Fact-Check
The DFRAC team did a keyword search on google in this regard and found some latest reports from Newsweek and FoxNews carrying the recent tweet by Trump on the social media platform Truth Social. According to this tweet, Trump would debate with whomever the Left-Liberal Democrats choose.
Moreover, Newsweek’s report also stated that Trump campaign spokesperson Jason Miller told NBC News shortly after Biden dropped out of the election that “there’s definitely going to be” a debate against “whoever the Democrats end up choosing.”
Conclusion
It is clear from DFRAC’s fact-check that the viral post claiming that Trump has announced he won’t debate Kamala Harris has been misleadingly shared on X as he asserted in this tweet that he would do debate with whomever the Left-liberals choose.
Analysis: Misleading