While the two camps were arguing over the rules of the debate and Kamala Harris’s team was accusing Donald Trump of trying to hide behind a closed microphone, now Trump is adding to it and now seems nervous.
Debate rules
In the run-up to the highly anticipated debate between Donald Trump and Kamala Harris, scheduled for September 10 and hosted by ABC News, the two camps clashed this week over debate rules.
The use of microphones
The Trump team refused to change a rule concerning the use of microphones, which could jeopardize the debate.
A rule in place
The Kamala Harris campaign proposed changing a rule that had been in place since Biden was still the Democratic presidential candidate.
In real time
Under the Harris camp’s new proposal, both candidates should keep their microphones open throughout the debate to encourage real-time interaction and dialogue, according to the Harris campaign.
Unexpectedly
Unexpectedly, however, Trump’s campaign team flatly refuses this proposal and prefers the microphones to remain off during the televised debate.
Ready to face
Kamala Harris’s camp accuses Trump of trying to evade confrontation by keeping the microphone off, and says Harris is ready to face the former president’s lies and incessant interruptions.
Criticized efforts
The Trump campaign, for its part, criticized the Harris campaign’s efforts to change the guidelines.
No reason
The Trump campaign argues that the two campaigns had already agreed on these rules and that there was no reason to change them.
The two camps
In the end, it seems that both camps agreed not to change the rules, although doubts remained until the last moment about Trump’s participation in the debate scheduled on ABC News, while the vice-president seems ready to take up the challenge. Indeed, the former president still questions the debate with Harris on an almost daily basis and seems nervous when he talks about it.