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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You know Trump is just waiting for her to interrupt so he can say that to her. lol
She and her team must be terrified that she is now forced to address policy, which is what this format dictates.
Hahahahaha...looking for excuses already.
LOL, I know...
There's also flat out lying ....
Every time she says "I'm speaking", she sounds like the worst possible "karen". It's really off-putting.
True dat.
Flat out lying will be her modus operandi. Her policy page even contains provable lies about Trump’s positions.
I think that Kamala has not had any real interviews because she did not even know her positions. She failed the bar exam the first time after not studying. She probably studied a lot to pass it the second time. She has been cramming for this new “exam”.
Tonight she will be very different from how she has been up to now because she will actually know what her policies are. It is such an outrage that our country has to deal with this evil Democratic Party. …. and the propaganda media that supports them.
I am not watching it. I see the difference between Obama and Trump admins, and I favor Trump over what Biden/Harris is doing. No need to let ABC have another viewer. Vote Trump and dump the humper Harris.
Harris’s five minutes of prepared questions in a senate hearing is laughable.
Debates mean thinking on your feet and having a solid governing plan to base your answers.
Harris has to frame each answer and deny her long history of far Leftist activism.
Trump, being a known quantity, just has to be Trump.
That doesn't matter. Harris has a remarkable ability to speak without actually saying anything meaningful. That is actually her only talent.
On that basis alone, she will be declared the winner.
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