This is likely her strategy. To throw Trump off his game. Harder to do that with muted mics.
Posted on 08/30/2024 3:26:18 PM PDT by Libloather
WASHINGTON — ABC News has declined to adopt Vice President Kamala Harris’ request to have wholly unmuted microphones during her Sept. 10 debate with former President Donald Trump — after days of wrangling over what Republicans viewed as Democratic attempts to lay a trap for the GOP nominee.
A network email reviewed by The Post lays out similar rules as those for Trump’s June 27 CNN debate against President Biden — including no audience, no pre-written notes or props and muted mics when a candidate is not speaking.
Trump and Harris will be standing on stage and will only be allowed to have a pen, a pad of paper and a bottle of water.
The Republican campaign had insisted the debate — set to be held at Philadelphia’s National Constitution Center — follow the same rules as the June showdown with Biden.
However, Harris’ team claimed Monday that they wanted both candidates’ mics on for the entire 90-minute forum.
A top Trump ally said ABC News had informed both campaigns in writing last week that it would employ the “CNN rules” and both had confirmed that Sept. 10 was a “go.”
“At this point, Team Harris is going to be taking an ‘L’ when they finally accept, as the debate rules aren’t changing, or they’ll take an even bigger ‘L’ if they back out of the debate because the Dana Bash/CNN interview goes poorly,” the person said.
The email seen by The Post was sent Tuesday by ABC News Chief Counsel Eric Lieberman. It reiterated the rules and asked the campaigns for their “formal acceptance.”
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An occasional, “Can someone please translate that gibberish into English? I have no idea what she just said.” would be good too.
*ABC News had informed both campaigns in writing last week that it would employ the “CNN rules”*
Informed both campaigns-like both had a problem with the format? Come on.
Whatever happened to the losers at the Commission for Presidential Debates? They were deep sixed. Was that Trump’s doing or both Parties?
Yep. I’m sure that’s their plan.
Your mike is off because it’s my turn, Kamala
Biden. Funny thing that it was his mistake. If he had kept the same format, he'll still be running for President today.
MEDIOCRE is a GIFT.
SHE IS AN IDIOT -—NOT TO BE LET LOOSE ON HER OWN
> Wonder if Comrade Kamala wants to weasel out of the debate ? <
Biden of course made a huge error in agreeing to debate Trump. That debate destroyed Biden. If I were Kamala’s advisor, I’d seriously think about telling her to skip the debate. There’s way more of a downside for her than an upside.
“Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak and to remove all doubt.”
— often attributed to Mark Twain
But what excuse to use? Kamala would need to latch on to a recent Trump comment, and pretend to be offended, so offended that she could not possibly share a stage with such a vile person.
I really don’t think Kamala will do the debate.
If she does, I think it will be as baddis aster as Biden did. She is not very bright and doesn’t understand the issues that should come up in the debate.
We’ll see.
Based on what we have heard so far, do any of these “handlers” and CNN executives demonstrate the attributes we associate with functioning humans?
This is likely her strategy. To throw Trump off his game. Harder to do that with muted mics.
I give it 50-50—and am generous with that.
HARRIS HAS STILL NOT SIGNED AN AGREEMENT
Watching the FAU- Michigan State game on the Big 10 network....just saw a very nice anti-Harris ad from a anti-illegal PAC
How about note cards..she already has the debate questions in advance, NO ONE can remember everything word for word which is why she needs note cards..notice with her interview yesterday, she kept on looking DOWN, she barely looked at Dana’s face, because she was reading the notes with her prepared statements
Everybody and his brother know that the “sassy black lady putting the old white man in his place” shtick is pretty much the only arrow in their quiver. It’s so ridiculous and tiresome... and yet after a half-century of propaganda the masses have been conditioned by Hollywood to lap up this crap
Politicking is hard!
The question is, are the masses stupid enough not to realize that all the black-lady sass in the world will do nothing to lower their gas and grocery prices?
Trump needs to repeat his performance on 6/27 and he'll do fine. So Kamala will have to come up with something new. Maybe have a conversation on policy?
Maybe she'll come up with an excuse to cancel.
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