Vice President Kamala Harris and her team are none too happy with the agreed-upon debate rule to mute a candidate's microphone while the other is speaking ahead of Tuesday's debate hosted by ABC News, Politico reported Friday.

The vice president will be "handcuffed" by this rule, Harris campaign officials told Politico. Her team, currently in Philadelphia for debate prep, had hoped that unmuted microphones would allow the former San Francisco district attorney and California attorney general to fire back at Trump, but now that seems unlikely.

However, some Democrats have privately dismissed the mantra coming out of the Harris camp as one of gamesmanship seeking to paint the Democrat nominee as an underdog muzzled by the TV network.