I understand the desire for unmuted mikes, but I think pushing for them was a poor strategy.

All the way through, while the Trump campaign was trying to weasel out of this debate, the Harris campaign had the ethical upper hand, since their position was simply that this is the scheduled debate, with this host and these terms, and the Trump campaign already agreed to it, so put up or shut up.

Now, by themselves trying to change the rules, they’ve lost that ethical upper hand. They’ve gone from looking like the party with integrity simply expecting the Trump campaign to keep its word to just another set of schemers trying at the eleventh hour to go back on their word.