Kayleigh McEnany, former White House Press Secretary and current Fox News host, advised her former boss to quickly agree to several debates with Vice President Kamala Harris in order to undercut her momentum.

McEnany stated that Trump’s main challenge in the 2024 election will be to get Harris to speak without a teleprompter and to expose her from the liberal media’s “coverup mode.” She urged Trump to challenge Harris to their first debate before the Democratic National Convention, rather than waiting.

“[T]he press doesn’t want her to do any sit-downs,” McEnany said. “They’re in coverup mode. If this were Trump, there would be in the corner of your screen on every major liberal network a countdown or count-up rather of how many days, how many hours he’s gone without a free-wheeling interview or press conference. It’s outrageous; it’s in the interest of the press to ask for this, but they’re not doing so because they flipped the script. Now it’s coverup mode for Kamala.”

“She cannot handle a free-wheeling scenario, there’s no doubt about it. And it’s the job of Trump to get her off the teleprompter,” McEnany continued. “I’ve said the challenge of this cycle was going to be smoking Biden out of this metaphorical basement. The basement became the Oval Office. Now, the challenge for Trump is getting her off the teleprompter. That’s why he should challenge her to three debates and do not wait. Do not wait until after the DNC. Because a third of this 100-day period will be over. Don’t let her get the tailwind. Debate this week, hey, debate this week. Next week.”

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Former WH press secretary Kayleigh McEnany says Trump should challenge Kamala Harris to three debates in the near future pic.twitter.com/b6LdRtosmJ

— Daily Caller (@DailyCaller) August 5, 2024

Critics have noted that Harris’s handlers seem to have adopted a strategy similar to Joe Biden’s 2020 campaign approach, which involved limiting public appearances and avoiding interactions with reporters.

Since becoming the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee on Sunday, Harris has not held a formal press conference — a period that has spanned more than two weeks now.