Harris Throws Gauntlet At Trump For Ducking Debate, Interviews: ‘What Is He Hiding?’

Vice President Kamala Harris said Monday she wondered what former President Donald Trump was “trying to hide” as he continues to duck another debate showdown and cancel interviews and events in the final days of the election.
Harris spent Monday touring three battleground states alongside former Republican congresswoman Liz Cheney (Wyo.) as the pair appealed to voters in Pennsylvania, Wisconsin and Michigan.
In one pointed moment, Harris attacked Trump’s refusal to debate her again following their lone showdown last month and sit for traditional interviews in the lead-up to November, namely with CBS’ “60 Minutes.”
“I wonder: What is he hiding?” Harris said during an event in Wisconsin. “I also wonder what his staff is trying to hide by preventing or suggesting he not debate me again, not do these interviews.”
“He is pulling out of interviews left, right and center.”
Vice President Harris: I wonder what Trump’s staff is trying to hide by refusing to debate me again and not doing major interviews. He is pulling out of interviews left, right, and center. He is increasingly unstable pic.twitter.com/MAptAb33ik
The vice president has been on a whirlwind tour across the country in recent weeks as polls show the race effectively tied, with just seven key battleground states likely to decide the outcome of the election. She has used her appearances to appeal to independent voters and undecided Republicans, pointing to GOPers and former aides who have broken with Trump.
Cheney, a longtime critic of the former president and a key Republican figure on the Jan. 6 House select committee that investigated the origins of the Capitol attack, bolstered those claims on Monday.
“You have to choose people who have character, choose people of good faith,” Cheney told an audience member when asked how he could talk to family members about the election.
During another moment on Monday she added: “If you wouldn’t want someone to babysit your kids, you shouldn’t make that guy the president of the United States.”
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.@Liz_Cheney: I know many Republicans who will vote for Vice President Harris but not be public. Remember, you can vote your conscience and not ever have to say a word to anybody. There will be millions of Republicans who do that on November 5th pic.twitter.com/e5FaOd82mH
The former congresswoman went on to say she had spoken to many other Republicans who worried about another Trump presidency, but couldn’t go public with their fears.
“I would just remind people,” Cheney added, “if you’re at all concerned, you can vote your conscience and not ever have to say a word to anybody.”
Harris added Monday that Trump’s recent appearances — including a rally where he danced for nearly 40 minutes — had only further cast doubt on his ability to lead the nation.
“I think it does lead us and it should lead us to observe that he is increasingly unstable,” the vice president said. “But you don’t have to take my word for it. Listen to the people who know him best, the people who worked for him in the White House, in the Oval Office, in the Situation Room.”