Former US President Donald Trump has left up in the air the holding of the so far only televised debate agreed with his Democratic rival, Kamala Harris, scheduled for September 10, despite the fact that the tycoon has indicated this Monday that he would not mind accepting the other party’s request regarding microphones.
Trump, who proposed up to three debates with Harris, has been suggesting for several days a possible cancellation of the only one that has been closed. “Kamala refuses to give interviews because she does not trust her own level of intelligence and now she wants to change the rules of the debate on ABC ‘Fake’ News,” he said on his social network.
The tycoon’s team wants to keep the same format that already worked for him in the only face-to-face he had on television with the now retired Joe Biden, mainly so that the microphones would be opened in turns and only the speaker’s would be connected, which limits interruptions. Harris, on the other hand, wants them to never be turned off.
The fact is that Trump himself admitted on Monday in statements to the media that he does not attach much importance to this issue. “We agree on the same rules. I don’t know, I don’t care, I would probably like to have it always on,” he responded to a question on this subject, according to the American channel CNN.
A spokesman for Harris’ campaign, Michael Tyler, has taken up the gauntlet of these statements and, in an interview on MSNBC, has pointed out that he believes that after Trump’s latest words the matter is “resolved.” In this sense, he hopes that Trump will not let himself be “outdone” by other members of his team and will accept that the microphones are always on.
