Trump: I'd want Sean Hannity, Jesse Watters, or Laura Ingraham to moderate a Fox News debate
Donald Trump: “I wouldn't want to have Martha and Bret”
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From the September 11, 2024, edition of Fox News' Fox & Friends
STEVE DOOCY (CO-HOST): Mr. President, I know when we started the interview you said that you felt that you won the debate last night. Your best ever. I think before the debate happened last night, the Kamala Harris people said that they would actually like to do another debate in October. And I know that last night Fox News offered, sent letters to your campaign and her campaign offering three dates of debates moderated by Martha and Bret. One is October 9 in Arizona.
DONALD TRUMP: Well, I wouldn't want to have Martha and Bret. I would love to have somebody else other than Martha and Bret. I would love to have, frankly, Sean or Jesse, or Laura, you know, somebody else. Let's give other people a shot. But, I didn't think Martha and Bret were good last night. I thought Jesse was -- Jesse was fantastic last night, what he said. Jesse really got it. Jesse said Trump won that debate. We won that debate by a lot. Now, I wouldn't want Martha involved. But I would take some others.
DOOCY: Mr. President, so these are the dates that Fox offered your campaign and Harris' campaign. October 9 in Arizona. October 15 in Georgia. October 16 in North Carolina. Of course, the big question is would you want the microphones on when you are not talking, when the other person is talking, you want both microphones on at all times.
TRUMP: Well she wanted a moment like she did with Mike Pence, but I actually got that moment too. I won that, too. Because she was talking while I was speaking, quite a bit actually, she didn't know that people weren't listening too much. But I was hearing her, I had a little fun with that. But look, here's the story, when two fighters fight and one loses the first thing they do is ask for a debate, or ask for a fight, so in this case a debate. We had two people. They lost very badly, the first thing they did is ask for a debate because that's -- when a fighter loses he says I want a rematch. I want a rematch. They always, the losing person, the fighter, the debater, they always ask for a rematch. I won the debate according to C-SPAN by a lot. According to every single, I think we had 14 polls that we sent to you, everyone had me winning the debate. When you win the debate -- I don't know that I want to do another debate.
DOOCY: So right at the end as I was interrupting, you don't know if you want to do another debate. It sounds like you are a no.
TRUMP: Well, I would be less inclined to because we had a great night. We won the debate. We had a terrible, terrible network. I think they were terrible. They should be embarrassed.