WASHINGTON − Donald Trump found someone he’s willing to debate: Meghan Markle and Prince Harry.
“I’d love to debate her … I disagree so much with what they’re doing,” Trump told radio talk show Hugh Hewitt after he broached the fantasy idea during an interview Wednesday.
As for Trump debating his 2024 Republican primary opponents? Not so much.
The former president – who skipped the first GOP debate last month in Milwaukee because of his big lead in polls – indicated he would also decline to attend a Sept. 27 debate in California as well as a yet-to-be-scheduled October event in Alabama.
Trump did not challenge Hewitt’s assertion that “I know that you are skipping the next debate at the Reagan Library,” and did not express any enthusiasm for a third debate down South.
“I would love to go to anything involved with Alabama,” Trump said, “but when you’re up 50 points ….”
Trump did say he would do a general election debate, and roiled his Democratic foes by suggesting that President Joe Biden might not be his opponent.
“I’ll certainly do the debate against the Democrat, whoever that may be,” Trump said. “That, I feel you have an obligation to do.”
Hewitt started the interview on what he called a “light subject,” the upcoming 50th anniversary of the “Battle of the Sexes” tennis match between Billie Jean King and Bobby Riggs.
Claiming that 90 million people watched King thrash Riggs, Hewitt told Trump: “The only thing I think that might draw an audience that even approaches that would be if you were to sit down with the Duchess of Sussex, Meghan Markle and Prince Harry.”
