Harris campaign alleges Trump camp wants the mics off to protect him from any off-colour comments or if he loses his temper during debate.
A much-anticipated US presidential debate next month between Kamala Harris and Donald Trump was thrown into question on Monday over the subject of muted microphones, as the Republican threatened to pull out.
Trump had already balked at debating in the September 10 showdown, which comes on the heels of Harris’s rapid rise as the Democratic Party’s nominee after US President Joe Biden stepped down.
On his Truth Social media platform on Sunday, Trump accused television broadcaster ABC of bias, posting: “I ask, why would I do the Debate against Kamala Harris on that network?”
The Trump and Harris campaigns were also locked in disagreement on Monday over whether each candidate’s microphone would be muted when the other spoke.
