Unclear news about Trump-Harris debate

“Are you scared?” asks the X account @KamalaHQ under the title Donald Trump. For the question, they’ve stitched together cinematic footage of him formulating his thoughts on not meeting Kamala Harris in a televised debate, and added the sound of chickens clucking.

Democrats, who now feel a headwind, want to paint a picture that Trump wouldn’t dare confront her in a live debate on ABC, that he would be intimidated by her relatively youthful intensity and clear-eyed statements on matters of fact. His staff, for their part, say that’s nonsense.

-Enough with this nonsense. We accepted the ABC debate under exactly the same terms as the CNN debate. Having already agreed to CNN’s rules, the Harris camp asked for a seated debate, with notes and opening remarks. We said no to changing the agreed-upon rules, says senior Trump adviser Jason Miller CNN.

When President Joe Biden was still The Democratic nominee faced Trump in a debate on CNN on June 27, but his performance was, to put it mildly, mediocre. He subsequently cancelled his participation in a second debate and was replaced by the party, as it is known, with Vice President Harris.

In recent weeks, the rival camps have debated the debates between the current top candidates, and more precisely how they will handle them. At the center is whether debaters’ microphones should be on when the other is speaking or whether they should be turned off as they are during the CNN debate.

When Trump debated Hillary Clinton in 2016, the microphones were on, just as they were in Biden’s 2020 debates, and the proceedings featured constant Trump counter-jabbering in the middle of the other’s sentences. It’s unclear whether it affected public opinion, but it clearly annoyed the opponent and many viewers.

Officially, the televised debate will be held on ABC. Sept. 10 is still on the calendar, and both candidates are invited, according to the cross-party organizer CPD. Unlike Biden, Harris wants to turn on the microphones, hoping Trump will somehow isolate himself.

– We saw that Trump's “advisors” preferred the silent microphone because they did not believe their candidate could be president for 90 minutes on his own. We suspect that the Trump team did not even tell their boss about this conflict because it would be too embarrassing to admit that they did not believe he could handle Vice President Harris without the benefit of silentButton, said Harris adviser Brian Fallon. Politico.