Republican presidential contender Chris Christie says there is a chance that former President Donald Trump might make an appearance at an October Republican presidential debate in Tuscaloosa.

But when that debate will take place, and where it will be located has not yet been officially announced.

“I would keep my eye on the debate in Tuscaloosa, Alabama, in October,” Christie, the former New Jersey governor, said during an appearance Tuesday on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe.”

“At that point, he will have lost even more ground in the polls in my view,” Christie said. “And you know that is all Donald Trump cares about is looking at the latest poll that he can see and determining his conduct, not by what is right or fair for the Republican voters, but what he perceives to his personal interest.”

Christie added, “He may show up to Alabama.”

A representative with the Alabama Republican Party deferred comments to the Republican National Committee, whose spokeswoman did not respond to a request for comment.

Tuscaloosa Mayor Walt Maddox deferred comments to the strategic communications division at the University of Alabama, which also did not respond to a request for comment.

Brilyn Hollyhand, a representative of the RNC Youth Advisory Council, said the national party’s focus is on the second debate that will take place September 27 at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library in California, which Christie predicts Trump will not attend.

“I don’t want to get ahead of any announcement by (RNC Chairwoman Rona McDaniel) over the next few weeks, but I will say that there is an ongoing conversation with the University of Alabama,” said Hollyhand, a Tuscaloosa area teen who was appointed to the newly-formed RNC Youth Advisory Council earlier this year.

“Obviously, the possibility of this is something I’m very passionate about and have been advocating for since earlier this year,” said Hollyhand, who was appointed to the Youth Council after writing an Op-Ed in January calling out the GOP for not appealing enough to Generation Z voters – those ages 11-26. He also runs the Truth Gazette website that includes numerous sit-down interviews with national political candidates.

Hollyhand hinted that a debate would take place during a week in which the University of Alabama Crimson Tide play an away game. Alabama’s schedule has the team on the road on October 7, which is only a little more than one week after the California debate. The team is off on the weekend of October 28. The rest of the month includes home football games.

“Aside from my hometown bias, in my role as co-chair of the RNC’s inaugural Youth Advisory Council, I’ve been a strong advocate to host a debate on a college campus because I think it’s incredibly important to have my generation, Generation Z, directly involved in democracy,” he said. “This debate would give them a front seat to history.”

But will Trump be there? The former president is leading in the polling by 35 percentage points over his closest rival, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, according to a daily tracker monitored by FiveThirtyEight.com.

Trump’s polling is at 49.9%, which is a slight dip from the 54.5% he was at on August 18, according to the website’s tracker.

Christie, during his MSNBC appearance, said that if Trump shows up for a debate, it’s more likely to be in Alabama than California. He said that the former president dislikes the Reagan Library.

“It’s his pettiness and everything to him is personal,” Christie said during the TV show. “He’s had had a conflict for the last eight years with the Reagan library. He’s insulted that he’s not been invited to speak there. He doesn’t like the chairman of the Reagan Foundation. All of that is more important to Donald Trump than giving Republican voters an opportunity to hear from the Republican (candidates).”

Hollyhand said the Trump team has informed him that the former president is skipping the first two debates.

“The Alabama debate would be the third, and if it becomes official, we look forward to seeing him here,” he said.