Vice President Kamala Harris’ campaign was reportedly “rushing” to revise their debate strategy after losing their bid to change microphone rules.

Former President Trump and Harris will face off for the first time on Tuesday in Philadelphia, in a debate moderated by ABC News. While Harris’ campaign has insisted on moving forward with the debate as previously negotiated between the Biden and Trump teams, it appears they expected the rules to change to allow for live microphones throughout the event.

“Kamala Harris had planned to object, fact-check and directly question Donald Trump as he spoke during their debate next week,” Politico reported Friday. “But now, with rules just being finalized to silence the candidates when their opponents speak, campaign officials said Harris advisers are scrambling to rewrite their playbook.”

Vice President Kamala Harris speaks at the 88th American Federation of Teachers National Convention in Houston, Texas on July 25, 2024. (Montinique Monroe/Getty Images)

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According to the report, Harris’ campaign wanted the microphones unmuted “so the vice president could lay out her background as a prosecutor and confront the former president in the same way she did with some of Trump’s Supreme Court nominees and Cabinet members during Senate confirmation hearings.”

Four of her own campaign managers now claim she will be “handcuffed” by the rules her predecessor set.

Some Democratic strategists said the debate conditions were bad from the start.

One told Politico: “It was a bad set of rules for someone (Biden) who needed to be protected, who should never have been on the debate stage. And now they’re stuck with it.”

Republican presidential candidate and former President Donald Trump leaves a campaign event at the Central Wisconsin Airport on September 7, 2024 in Mosinee, Wisconsin. (Scott Olson/Getty Images)

Democratic strategist James Carville, on the other hand, argued that the rules have no effect on either side.

“(Trump) won’t be able to do his antics either,” he said. “So it seems to me like a bit of a draw.”

The same report also stated, “Some Democrats are privately dismissing Harris’ campaign frustration as largely a form of gamesmanship and expectation-building surrounding Tuesday’s debate in Philadelphia.”

Trump senior adviser Jason Miller, speaking on behalf of the campaign, was said to be pleased that Harris “ultimately accepted the already agreed-upon rules of the debate that they initially established,” adding later: “Americans want both candidates to present their competing visions to voters, unencumbered by what has gone before. No notes, no sitting down, no copies of the questions beforehand.”

Harris’ campaign did not respond to a request for comment from Fox News Digital.

Harris’ campaign had repeatedly protested the microphone rule, trying to push Trump to back out of the original agreement to mute microphones, even initially refusing to sign the rules in an attempt at renegotiation.

The campaign sent a letter to the network last week officially agreeing to the original debate rules, but still complained about the terms.

“Vice President Harris, a former prosecutor, will be fundamentally disadvantaged by this format, which will shield Donald Trump from direct exchanges with the Vice President. We suspect this is the primary reason his campaign insists on muted microphones,” the letter said.

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