Donald J. Trump announced for a second time that he would participate in a presidential debate with Vice President Kamala Harris hosted by ABC News and suggested that the question of whether microphones will be muted when a candidate isn’t speaking had been resolved.
But a person briefed on the Harris campaign’s thinking said the issue remained an open discussion, and a spokesperson for ABC declined to comment.
Mr. Trump has gone back and forth about whether he would attend the Sept. 10 debate, which he had agreed to before President Biden dropped out of the race. In the debate between Mr. Trump and Mr. Biden on June 27, microphones were muted when the candidates were not speaking — a term encouraged by the Biden team that the Harris team wants to change.
Later this week, Ms. Harris will sit for her first major interview since entering the race.
She and her running mate, Gov. Tim Walz of Minnesota, will be interviewed by Dana Bash on CNN, which will broadcast the joint interview at 9 p.m. Eastern time on Thursday.
Here’s what else to know: Trump’s transition team: Mr. Trump plans to name his former rival, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., and Tulsi Gabbard, a onetime Democrat, as honorary co-chairs of a presidential transition team that will help him select the policies and personnel of any second Trump administration, according to a campaign senior adviser. Mr. Kennedy ended his independent campaign for president and endorsed Mr. Trump on Friday.
On the campaign trail: Senator JD Vance of Ohio, Mr. Trump’s running mate, was in Michigan earlier on Tuesday, before heading to an evening fund-raiser in Nashville. Senator Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts, who is like to promote Ms. Harris’s economic message as she stumps for her campaign, was making appearances at events in Wisconsin. A video address by Ms. Harris will also be played at a gathering of the African Methodist Episcopal Church in Columbus, Ohio.
There is an agreement on the TV debate between Donald Trump and Kamala Harris scheduled for September 10 on ABC. The face-to-face will be held with the same rules as the one in June on
CNN between the Republican candidate and the US President Joe Biden. Trump announced it, explaining that he had reached an agreement with Harris. ”This means Harris will not be allowed to sit down or use a notepad as she requested,” Trump said. In addition, the microphone of the candidate who does not have the floor while the other speaks.
The former White House resident also said that the debate slot on Fox News will remain “open” if Harris were to change her mind. “We have also received assurances from ABC that this will be a ‘fair and equitable’ debate and that none of the two parties will be provided with questions in advance,” Trump added.
Meanwhile, the latest national poll, conducted after the conclusion of the Democratic convention last week, confirms Kamala Harris’s lead, four points ahead of Donald Trump. According to the poll by Florida Atlantic University (Fau) Political Communication, Public Opinion Research Lab and Mainstreet Research USA, the Democratic candidate is at 47%, while Trump is stuck at 43%.
The four-point advantage is maintained even if we also consider the probable voters, with Harris at 49% and Trump at 45%. But it becomes a double-digit advantage among female voters,
with the Democrat at 53% against 41% of the Republicans. Trump instead leads, but only slightly, among male voters, with a just two points of advantage, 47% against 45%.
The vice president’s lead increases sharply among Hispanic voters (to 51%), among
white voters with a college degree (to 57%), and is preponderant among African Americans (73%).
Trump maintains a dominant position with white voters without a college degree, 59% of whom prefer the tycoon.
