Since you didn't quote me, I didn't know you had responded, and given some personal life stuff (birthday into a surgery for my wife), I haven't been checking the threads that diligently so I missed this. Actually, no, your claim is false. That's what started this whole thing. You said he would debate because he always does. I pointed out that he in fact did not do that at all during the GOP nomination process. Then you took the conversation other directions, rather than admitting you were wrong, and now you're trying to parse semantics on the exact phrasing of how he said things when it was pretty clear to most people given the multiple different, conflicting things he said that he had no interest in debating Kamala at the time, probably for the same reason he didn't debate during the nomination; he felt like he had it locked up given the polling at the time. However, I will concede that he never directly said "I will not debate Kamala."
Regardless, this all started with a false statement you made, which you haven't admitted to, but is a verifiable fact. He would not "debate, no matter what". It's not "what he does". He does what he sees as politically necessary at any given time.