WASHINGTON — ABC News has declined to accommodate Vice President Kamala Harris’ request to completely mute the microphones during her Sept. 10 debate with former President Donald Trump, following days of controversy over what Republicans viewed as attempts by Democrats to entrap the Republican nominee.

An email from the network viewed by The Post lists rules similar to those for Trump’s CNN debate against President Biden on June 27. They include no audience, no pre-written notes or props, and muted microphones when a candidate is not speaking.

Trump and Harris will be on stage and will only be allowed to carry a pen, a pad of paper and a bottle of water.

The Republican campaign team had insisted that the debate – which was to take place at the National Constitution Center in Philadelphia – would be subject to the same rules as the debate with Biden in June.

However, Harris’ team claimed on Monday that they wanted both candidates’ microphones on for the entire duration of the 90-minute showdown.

A Trump campaign source told the Washington Post on Wednesday that it was understood that the Harris campaign had backed out of the request, although the exact process was unclear.

“Harris’ people are fed up with this,” Jason Miller, a senior adviser to the Trump campaign, told Newsmax on Wednesday.

“Everything was agreed and finalized last week,” he added. “Harris’ people are trying to distract and come up with something shiny to distract from the fact that she is not giving interviews.”

A campaign spokesman for the vice president did not immediately comment.

It was widely believed that Harris was trying to unmute the microphones in order to start a heckling event and create viral buzz.

Harris, a former prosecutor, received favorable coverage in 2020 when she delivered a stern “I’m speaking!” rebuke to then-Vice President Mike Pence, portraying him as a sexist after sharply attacking Biden at a 2019 presidential primary debate for opposing government-mandated interracial school busing.

“That little girl was me!” Harris expressed her feelings in a racially motivated attack, prompting an angry future First Lady Jill Biden to tell the California senator to “f–k off.”

Both quotes from the debate were later used on pro-Harris campaign articles.