Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Donald Trump are preparing to meet for the first time under circumstances neither may have predicted seven weeks ago. But the newfound rivals, paired after President Joe Biden‘s surprise departure from the 2024 election,

The microphones were a point of disagreement between the Harris campaign, which wanted unmuted microphones—suggesting it could expose Trump’s penchant for interrupting his opponents—and the Trump campaign, which wanted muted mics, despite Trump saying he preferred for them to be unmuted.