Kamala’s last-minute changes have been denied…
According to a New York Post report, ABC News has rejected the Harris campaign’s attempts to change the rules of the presidential debate between Donald Trump and Kamala Harris.
Team Harris wanted the mics unmuted for the entire 90-minute debate — a significant change from the Trump-Biden showdown that ended Joe’s hopes of re-election.
From The New York Post:
A network email reviewed by The Post lays out similar rules as those for Trump’s June 27 CNN debate against President Biden — including no audience, no pre-written notes or props and muted mics when a candidate is not speaking.
Trump and Harris will be standing on stage and will only be allowed to have a pen, a pad of paper and a bottle of water.
The Republican campaign had insisted the debate — set to be held at Philadelphia’s National Constitution Center — follow the same rules as the June showdown with Biden.
However, Harris’ team claimed Monday that they wanted both candidates’ mics on for the entire 90-minute showdown.
A top Trump ally said ABC News had informed both campaigns in writing last week that it would employ the “CNN rules” and both had confirmed that Sept. 10 was a “go.”
“At this point, Team Harris is going to be taking an ‘L’ when they finally accept, as the debate rules aren’t changing, or they’ll take an even bigger ‘L’ if they back out of the debate because the Dana Bash/CNN interview goes poorly,” the person said.
“The Harris folks are completely full of it,” Trump campaign senior adviser Jason Miller told Newsmax on Wednesday.
“Everything was agreed to and set last week,” he added. “The Harris people are trying to distract and come up with something shiny to move away from the fact that she’s not doing interviews.”
More over at The New York Post:
ABC News rejects Kamala Harris last-minute bid to change Trump debate rules, will keep muted mics https://t.co/uRGgugILqb pic.twitter.com/slH8mghBvi
— New York Post (@nypost) August 29, 2024
