CBS News’ JD Vance-Tim Walz Debate Will Feature Hot Mics
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deadline.comCBS News unveiled the rules for Tuesday’s vice presidential debate between Republican JD Vance and Democrat Tim Walz, indicating that the candidates mics will not be muted during the event. “CBS News reserves the right to turn off candidate microphones,” the rules state.
That’s different from the Donald Trump-Kamala Harris debate and the Donald Trump-Joe Biden debate, in which candidates mics were shut off when it wasn’t their turn to speak.
Harris’ campaign demanded that mics be kept on for the ABC News presidential debate earlier this month, but eventually relented.
The thinking apparently was that Trump would be hurt if he tried to repeatedly interrupt Harris when it was her turn to answer.
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