Important Takeaways:

• The debate will be hosted by ABC News on Sept. 10 at the National Constitution Center in Philadelphia at 9 p.m. ET and will be moderated by David Muir and Linsey Davis.
• There’s been much back-and-forth over the debate, the first in which Trump and Harris will face off since she launched her campaign last month.
• A big point of contention between the two campaigns has been over whether the candidates’ microphones should be muted when it isn’t their turn to speak
• While ABC News has not officially released its rules for the debate, on Tuesday, Trump said on Truth Social that they would be “the same as the last CNN debate” that took place between him and President Biden on June 27.
• Those rules included no studio audience, no props or pre-written notes allowed on stage, no questions shared in advance and no campaign staff allowed to interact with the candidates during the commercial breaks.
• Neither ABC News nor the Harris campaign has publicly confirmed these rules.
• A date for the second presidential debate has not been set yet, but it is expected to be hosted by NBC News. The vice-presidential debate will be hosted by CBS News on Oct. 1.

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