Philadelphia (USA), Sep 10 (EFE).- The Democratic candidate for the presidency of the United States, Vice President Kamala Harrisis resting in the city of Philadelphia after a few hard days of preparation for what will be their first presidential debate this Tuesday nightwhich his campaign sees as “The debate between an attorney general and a convicted criminal”.
This is what María Carolina Casado, known as “Maca” and media director of the Harris-Walz campaign coalition, told EFE in an interview at the Philadelphia Convention Center, close to where tonight, at 9:00 p.m. (01:00 GMT on Wednesday), Harris will meet for the first time with the former president and Republican candidate, Donald Trump (2017-2021).
“Harris has the gift of gab. This is going to be a debate between an attorney general and a convicted felon and she is ready to make her case.”he noted.
The vice president, Casado added, is in Philadelphia “resting a little” and preparing “for a moment that she has been waiting for for a very long time.”
Although he faces it with the disadvantage of facing it as rookie to the candidate who has done the most presidential debates in modern history, seventhe coalition media director says she is more than prepared. All this despite the fact that the rules of the debate – agreed upon when President Joe Biden was a candidate – might not benefit the Democrat.
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In the debate organized by ACB News, moderated by journalists David Muir and Linsey Davisthe microphones of those who do not have a turn to speak will be muted.
The candidates will have two minutes to answer questions, along with an additional minute for follow-up and, at the close, two minutes of closing statements that Harris will begin and Trump will conclude, after having tossed the question with a coin.
“This thing about microphones is very particular, because Donald Trump said many times ‘I want the microphone open’, but his advisers, who obviously handle it, said no because they know that He cannot behave presidentially for 90 minutes, much less in front of Kamala Harris.since he has shown throughout his life that he despises women, that he despises everything that is not equal to him,” he noted.
It is also unusual that the moderators do not correct their lies, since, as in the first debate, they only ask questions without any further intervention. “There is no verification here and it is very difficult to confront a man who is lying. In the last debate, he told 36 lies,” Casado says.
Despite the importance of the event, the spokesperson says that it is “by no means” the most important day of the campaign. “It’s obviously an important moment that Americans can feel on the street, people are waiting, they want to see them (…), but history has shown that debates don’t move the needle.”. EFE
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