Why Harris campaign is fighting for unmuted debate mics
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c1w79w380dwo
They will be muted when it's the other candidate's turn to speak - but Ms Harris's team are pushing back.
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c1w79w380dwo
They will be muted when it's the other candidate's turn to speak - but Ms Harris's team are pushing back.
"Our understanding is that Trump's handlers prefer the muted microphone because they don't think their candidate can act presidential for 90 minutes on his own," a statement from Harris's spokesman said.
I love the Harris trolling.
I remember being Acided one night and seeing the four horsemen of the apocalypse but it turned out to be a street sweeper.
I understand the desire for unmuted mikes, but I think pushing for them was a poor strategy.
All the way through, while the Trump campaign was trying to weasel out of this debate, the Harris campaign had the ethical upper hand, since their position was simply that this is the scheduled debate, with this host and these terms, and the Trump campaign already agreed to it, so put up or shut up.
Now, by themselves trying to change the rules, they've lost that ethical upper hand. They've gone from looking like the party with integrity simply expecting the Trump campaign to keep its word to just another set of schemers trying at the eleventh hour to go back on their word.