The Donald Trump and Kamala Harris campaigns are sparring over whether to mute one of the microphones when it is the other person’s turn to speak during the pair’s scheduled debate next month.
The Harris campaign said in a statement to the BBC’s US partner CBS News that it wanted both candidates’ microphones to be live throughout the full broadcast.
The Trump campaign reportedly wants the ABC debate, scheduled for 10 September, to be governed by the same rules agreed when Joe Biden was the Democratic candidate. That would mean the microphones being muted.
The apparent impasse comes as the former president questioned the impartiality of the network and signalled he might even skip the debate.
The Biden campaign negotiated the rules for the debate and agreed that the microphone would be muted when a candidate wasn’t speaking.
The Trump campaign agreed to the rule, which was enforced during the June CNN debate.
But now, with just 15 days until the ABC News debate in Philadelphia is scheduled to air, the Harris campaign wants the microphones to be “hot” – meaning they will never be turned off for the duration of the debate.
This would allow the two candidates to interrupt and speak over each other on the debate stage.
“The vice president is ready to deal with Trump’s constant lies and interruptions in real time. Trump should stop hiding behind the mute button,” Harris campaign senior communications adviser Brian Fallon said in a statement.
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