The Harris campaign has lost the battle over muted microphones at the debate with former President Donald Trump next week, and they’re panicking about it.
According to Politico, Harris’s team has been hard at work preparing for the highly anticipated Sept. 10 debate with Trump. Yet the team was “somewhat flustered” over a significant setback: their failure to convince debate host ABC News to unmute both candidates’ microphones for the entire 90 minutes. This change would have undone an agreement that was made months ago between Trump, President Biden, and the network that the Harris campaign originally wanted to hold Trump to.
The Harris campaign has been pressuring ABC News to change the rules, but it has been unsuccessful.
That’s left Harris’ debate prep team in some upheaval as it decamps for Pittsburgh. Another person familiar with the group’s private conversations described KAREN DUNN, the long-time Democratic operative who is overseeing the prep sessions along with policy adviser ROHINI KOSOGLU, as “morose” over the network’s muting of Trump’s microphone while Harris is speaking. Dunn, not exactly a prolific tweeter, posted…
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