Trump vs Harris live: Harris’s lead widens in new post-DNC poll as pressure rises ahead of her CNN interview

Details about the upcoming and highly anticipated debate between Donald Trump and Kamala Harris on September 10, broadcast on ABC, have reportedly between the two camps, with no notes allowed, and microphones muted while the candidates are not speaking.

According to NPR, during a press call on Thursday, Trump campaign adviser Corey Lewandowski said that the mic issue had been resolved.

“We’ve worked that out. … The debate will be standing. There will be no notes allowed, and the microphones will be off. That’s what has been agreed to. ABC is aware of that, and that’s where we’ll be in just over a week,” he said.

Harris campaign official Brian Fallon previously claimed that Trump’s handlers “don’t trust” the former president to debate Harris with an unmuted mic. The Trump campaign “are asking ABC to ignore Trump’s comments and keep the mics muted or else they will back out of the debate for a third time,” Fallon wrote on X.

“We have been asked to accede to Trump’s handlers’ wishes on this point for the sake of preserving the debate. We find the Trump’s team’s stance to be weak, and remain in discussions with ABC on the final rules.”

In her first sit-down interview since becoming the Democratic nominee, Kamala Harris brushed off Donald Trump’s attempt to question her biracial identity (“same old tired playbook”) and said that her “values” have not changed despite some reversals on key policy positions surrounding immigration and fracking.

“My values have not changed. So that is the reality of it,” she told CNN’s Dana Bash from a diner in Savannah, Georgia on Thursday as the vice president and her running mate Tim Walz tour the state.

“And four years of being vice president, I’ll tell you, one of the aspects, to your point, is traveling the country extensively,” Harris added. “I believe it is important to build consensus, and it is important to find a common place of understanding of where we can actually solve problems.”

She also said she plans to appoint a Republican to her cabinet, if elected.

“I’ve got 68 days to go with this election, so I’m not putting the cart before the horse,” she said. “But I would, I think. I think it’s really important. I have spent my career inviting diversity of opinion. I think it’s important to have people at the table when some of the most important decisions are being made that have different views, different experiences. And I think it would be to the benefit of the American public to have a member of my Cabinet who was a Republican.”

The CNN excerpt served as a preview ahead of the joint interview with Harris and Walz set to air on the network at 9 pm ET.

Donald Trump kicked off his remarks in Michigan by once again laying into his former opponent Joe Biden, in a rambling broadside.

“Do we even have a president?” he asked the crowds. “He just got back from California, he was supposed to go to the White House, he never got there. He went to Delaware and he’s lying on a beach sleeping all day… who the hell wants to sleep in public?

“Do you think president Xi of China is at a beach sleeping? Do you think Kim Jong Un is sleeping, from North Korea, with his nuclear weapons all over the place – they don’t sleep very much.”

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Vance called out AFT President Randi Weingarten in an unearthed 2021 interview and said that teachers who don’t have biological children “really disorients” and “really disturbs” him.

“[S]he doesn’t have a single child,” Vance said of Weingarten. “If she wants to brainwash and destroy the minds of children, she should have some of her own and leave ours the hell alone.”

Weingarten is now hitting back at the Ohio senator and GOP candidate for vice president.