Trump campaign senior advisor Jason Miller says the Kamala Harris team is scared to let her debate the former president—and they're looking for a way to get out of it. As we've reported, Harris has been whining over the rules set forth by ABC and has (unsuccessfully) been trying to change them (for instance, she's demanding open mics even though her ostensible boss, Joe Biden, argued against those for his June debate against Trump).
They're worried she'll deliver one of her nonsensical word salads and be unable to defend her terrible record:
"They're afraid," Miller told "Sunday Morning Futures" guest host Sean Duffy."They don't want to put Kamala Harris out there, and you want to know why? Because she's going to have to answer for every bit of this last three and a half years. You can't talk about turning the page when you're the one who broke the economy, broke the border, broke the world, but that's on Kamala, and she's going to have to account for that when she's on the debate stage."
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The Harris team certainly seems to be running scared, posting peevish complaints to X about the microphones:
The Harris campaign has still refused to sign off on the rules already agreed upon for the upcoming debate, which were initially supposed to mirror the guidelines outlined for the CNN debate held between former President Trump and President Biden in June.
"The memo sent by ABC is a draft set of rules that both campaigns need to sign off on and indicate agreement. We have not done so because we think both candidates have expressed a clear desire to have hot mics. Not clear why Trump staff is overruling their principal, who should be capable of making up his own mind," Harris spokesperson Brian Fallon wrote in an X post on Thursday.
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Miller had an answer, however, and said that what they're really doing is trying to wriggle out of the event:
Miller contradicted the Harris campaign's claims, arguing that they now realize "what they're working with" after prepping Harris for the faceoff.
"The Harris campaign is looking for an escape hatch, looking for a way to get out of this debate," he said.
"To be clear, these are the rules that the Democrats wrote. These are the rules we had in place for the CNN debate. Everyone had agreed to the rules, at least informally, with ABC. We have a deal with ABC. ABC is with us all the way on this, but here's what I think happened. I think the Harris folks started going into debate prep, and now they realize what they're working with. They realize that they're in real trouble with Kamala Harris."
Miller also slammed Harris' widely-panned Thursday night CNN interview: