Hey everybody is four o'clock here in New York. I'm Alicia Menendez in for

Nicole Wallace. With T minus 71 days before the election a tale of two very

different campaigns is coming into razor sharp focus. On the one hand,

Vice President Kamil Harris and Governor Tim Wall's riding high after last week's

Democratic National Convention employs to hit the ground running in the all-important

battleground state of Georgia with a bus tour and a rally later this week.

On the other hand, you have the ex-president who after struggling to reclaim the spotlight last week as

26.2 million Americans tuned into the Democratic National Convention

has spent the last 24 hours flip-flopping and second-guessing whether he's going to show up to that

debate with Vice President Harris in September on the 10th in Philadelphia.

Last night he hinted that he was considering skipping the only debate the two campaigns

have officially committed to. Posting a litany of grievances and

complaints about the moderators of that debate, ABC News, wondering aloud,

quote,

why would I do the debate against Kamala Harris

on that network and attempting to play the role

of television producer himself telling everybody to, quote,

stay tuned.

Then came news of an impasse between the two campaigns

over ground rules, specifically over hot mics.

And quote, whether the candidate's microphones

will be muted when it is not their turn to speak.

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