Trump isn’t “spending a lot of time” preparing for the Harris debate

Trump added that he thought it was not possible to cram “30 years of knowledge into one week.”

“You know there’s a little bit of preparation for debates. But I’ve always done it more or less the same. You have to know your subject,” he said.

“And I think I know that better than anyone,” he added.

In response to BI’s request for comment, Trump spokesman Steven Cheung said: “As President Trump has said, he has prepared his whole life and organizes rallies and political events and regularly interacts with the media, which what is a form of training, something. Comrade Kamala refuses to do”.

Representatives for Harris did not immediately respond to a request for comment from Business Insider sent outside regular business hours.

Trump’s comments in Virginia came after he said he had no problem with muting microphones, a change Harris’ campaign called for following President Joe Biden’s disastrous debate performance with Trump in June.

“It doesn’t matter to me, I’d rather have it probably on,” Trump said of the microphones. “The truth is they’re trying to get out of it because she doesn’t want to debate.”

Trump also now wants the debate hosted on Fox News instead of ABC News, citing his ongoing lawsuit against ABC and host George Stephanopoulos, which he said would create a “conflict of interest.”

However, he had previously agreed to have a debate on ABC.

Trump is also no stranger to debate rules — his CNN debate with Biden was subject to a series of rules, with microphones muted while the other side spoke and no live audience.

With 70 days until the election, the race is heating up. Harris officially accepted his party’s nomination on the final day of the Democratic National Convention on Thursday.