Posted on 09/10/2024 6:40:16 AM PDT by RoosterRedux
Kamala Harris had planned to object, fact-check and directly question Donald Trump while he was speaking during their debate next week. But now, with rules just finalized to mute the candidates when their opponents speaks, campaign officials said Harris advisers are scrambling to rewrite their playbook.
Harris and her team — holed up in Pittsburgh for a multi-day debate camp — wanted unmuted microphones so that the vice president could lean on her prosecutorial background, confronting the former president in the same way she laced into some of Trump’s Supreme Court nominees and Cabinet members during Senate hearings.
Instead, four Harris campaign officials argued that she will be “handcuffed” by the rules, which were negotiated by President Joe Biden’s team earlier this summer.
“Trump’s worst moments in the debates are when he gets upset and snaps,” said an aide to Harris in her 2020 presidential campaign, granted anonymity to speak freely. “And they have neutered that.”
Some Democrats privately dismiss the Harris campaign’s frustration as largely gamesmanship and expectation-setting around Tuesday’s debate in Philadelphia. But others say the rule change and her limited experience in national general election debates and interviews since becoming her party’s nominee could affect Harris’ debate performance.
“She could get thrown off by [the muted mics], so putting [their frustration] about the mics out there, they’re preparing for that possibility,” said one national Democratic strategist, granted anonymity to speak candidly. “Or they’ve also got a set piece ready to go, where Harris could turn to the camera and say, ‘For those who can’t hear it, Donald Trump is trying to yell over me. How many of you have been in a meeting where you get talked over?’”
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Is “I’m speaking!” her only debate weapon?
Handcuffed seems very appropriate.
How about “debate the issues” instead of trying to play gotcha? Is that so hard? (For Kamala it is)
didn’t some demowonk claim that kammy’s debate skills are razor sharp? predicting the best comedy of salads from “word salad” harris that has ever been accomplished in history. remember friends...NO amount of dressing can fix a harris salad.
Apparently. And the cuck Pence melted from it.
According to her staff (always in a state of rotation), she never does her homework. But this time, she's spending days locked away in a hotel room doing nothing but homework (i.e., prepping for the debate).
To use Trump's word, she's gonna "choke" from over-preparation. Trump will knock her off her extremely practiced narrative and she will--cough, cough--freeze up and start cackling.
Bet Harris team has to give her downers to keep her from giggling crazy people have to be treated often.
Kamala will be preprogrammed for this.
She won’t be able to pivot as Trump can and will.
When she is put in a corner, I expect her to throw out the race card big time.
“””vice president could lean on her prosecutorial background, confronting the former president in the same way she laced into some of Trump’s Supreme Court nominees and Cabinet members during Senate hearings.”””
I recall it was the Kavanaugh hearings where Cackles Harris was at her snarky best.
They should actually be worried about Harris being ‘handcuffed’ by her low IQ.
Yes, the woman who can’t give a 30 second off the cuff statement about hostages being released without screwing it up is worried about the debate rules “handcuffing” here. (eye roll).
They are setting up everybody for their “she did quite well considering her opponent” narrative. It’s a given when you start hearing all these leftiods boot lickers setting the bar so low you know it psych set up. Her snake people are intentionally leaking out details of her team panicking blah blah you have never heard anything like this before in past presidential debates. Usually camps practicing for debates are tight lip and nobody lets anything out. So consider this a set up. Some words you’ll probably will hear after the debate: she still standing, she did remarkably well, she was steady focused etc. etc. You can bank on it. She wins by just surviving standing in the ring against orange man bad!
Making excuses.
AND THE GENDER CARD
“””Instead, four Harris campaign officials argued that she will be “handcuffed” by the rules, which were negotiated by President Joe Biden’s team earlier this summer.”””
This is getting old. The Cackles team is blaming Biden for everything while pretending that Cackles was not part of the Biden/Harris 4 year train wreck.
She’ll just accuse him of lying when he says anything. Her supporters are brainwashed to discount anything Trump say as “a lie”.
I like your summary.
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