Harris team fighting muted mics at ABC debate after Biden requested rule

Published August 26, 2024 8:58am ET



Vice President Kamala Harris‘s campaign is reportedly seeking to reverse a debate rule pushed for by President Joe Biden‘s campaign in the first debate against former President Donald Trump: muted microphones.

In nearly all televised presidential debates, the microphones were on throughout the event, with either candidate able to interrupt the other. For the 2024 debates, the Biden campaign requested that microphones be muted during the debate when it is not a candidate’s turn to speak, to which the Trump campaign agreed, and that was the policy for the CNN debate between Trump and Biden in June.

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