The 90-minute debate will include two commercial breaks, according to the network, and campaign staff may not interact with their candidate during that time.
Both candidates agreed to appear at a uniform podium, and their podium positions will be determined by a coin flip.
Microphones will be muted throughout the debate except for the candidate whose turn it is to speak. While no props or pre-written notes will be allowed on the stage, candidates will be given a pen, a pad of paper and a bottle of water.
Trump probably thinks mic muting means telling his former vice president to shut up.
Rofl
Trump campaign will be the first one to complain about mic muting. I bet my ass on that.
He’s gonna complain that he never agreed to it and use it as an excuse to back out
Trump is just going to be shouting while Biden talks anyway. So the viewer will see Biden distracted and stuttering because half his attention will be on trying to ignore Trump, but the viewer will not hear it, beyond maybe a little background noise that’s picked up on Bidens mic.
This is Trump’s strategy. He has done it before. They really need sound proof booths too.
Did you forget that Biden was in the Senate for decades? All they do is make speeches 99% of the time they are in the chamber.
Notice how Trump is only good in front of a friendly crowd. Biden has spoken publicly and privately in front of people who dislike him for most of his life. Biden is practicing now, and I suspect he will make Trump look like a fool.
Biden is practicing now, and I suspect he will
make Trump look likeoblige Trump’s mission to (further) substantiate himself a fool.
With a pad and a pen and a bottle of water. All this, I seek, I find I push the envelope to the line Make it, break it, take it Until I’m overrated!
Honestly happy with the mic muting, wished it was a thing back then. But what’s even the point of this debate, who is going to watch it with bated breath struggling to decide?
The goal is not to learn information about who the candidates already are. We already know who they are. The goal is to see them react to each other and have the more vitriolic candidate self-destruct on TV.
Each party has the goal of getting the other side to say something that will be a useful campaign sound bite. Maybe that will cause then to tone things down.
Who am I kidding, Trump will go over the top as usual trying to rile Biden.
Also so people can assess the vigor and wit of two candidates that each side has been calling decrepit and cognitively impaired.
Much like most cultural events, I’ll just wait for the funniest clips to be posted to YouTube
I’m not American and don’t much care about American politics but having a debate between 2 people both so old they can actually die on stage while age cooked their brains at least 5 years ago is a spectacle I’m not missing.
I’ll be watching with baited breath alright. It will be a show. One of them might actually die on stage. That’s not even the least spectacular thing that could happen.
Big time PDSD
Big time Paul Dano Sound Delivery?
Hopefully the mics, while muted, will still be recording audio so they can release Trump loudly shitting his pants when he thinks no one can hear.
I’m so glad your mind works this way so mine doesn’t have to.
The hero we need.
Mildly surprised theyve agreed to a debate at all.
It would be hilarious if they both shit their diapers at the same time.
Not if… When.
Are commercial breaks standard during debates? I can’t recall a commercial break in the last 24 years of debates, but maybe that’s just me.
Nope.
This is the first year the parties boycotted the nopartisian comitte’s debates and instead are holding their own with CNN as the host
Part of that deal, involves allowing ads.
So CNN makes a bunch of money, the parties get influence over the debate, the questions being asked, and who can attend (only the two parties)
Commercials are the most obvious part, but not the most impactful. This is dystopian as fuck and everyone seems to just be ok with it.
I’m not ok with it but I wasn’t paying attention enough to make sense of it until reading your comment. I feel like people would be more upset if they realized what is lost.
people would be more upset if they realized what is lost.
Bruh this is nothing.
The DNC took away NH’s delegates because they wouldn’t violate state law by moving their primary.
Just a few years after their lawyers said that primary’s can be rigged because they’re non binding.
And people are just fucking going with it like it doesn’t matter because it was going to be Biden anyways.
We’re getting frog boiled and people just get pissed when it’s brought up. I honestly don’t know why people haven’t been rioting
Oh no, the US is in danger of losing their massively influential 3rd parties!
At this point, do they really need to be in the same room?
Zoom debates! I can use my bingo card from work!
This is going to be a train wreck. Two old senile men that belong in a nursing home yelling at each other.
I can’t wait to hear about sharks and boats
We still pretending donald will debate?
I cannot possibly fathom a world in which orange incontinence personified shows up understanding he can be muted.
I can only imagine either the fact that they will be muted is being overstated to us, or that he doesnt understand and will be charging his diaper ass across the stage the second that he realizes people can no longer hear him.
He doesn’t need to prove anything to anyone. He can just lie about everything. I’m sure he’ll just call it censorship and Fox News will say Biden will come for “conservatives” next.
Going to watch to see if I can guess how many drugs they’ll prop up Trump with. I’m going to guess a lot
I’m pro Biden in this lineup, but you know that dude is gonna have a “nap” and an “ice cream cone” before the debate too lol
But the guy that slept through his own criminal trial will definitely not need a nap before/during the debate.
/s just in case
Obviously. He’s gonna be super hopped up on diet coke and diet pills. And hamberders.
You gotta be a teenager or something if you’re too cool for ice cream and naps
Ice cream and a nap sounds awesome
Obviously not the joke I was making. Everyone likes those things.
They would also love that presidential grade focus drug cocktail
Bets on whether trump walks out at the break?
He will come up with some bullshit excuse of why he can’t attend or how it’s all rigged and refuse to participate
And his followers will lap it up without a second thought and ignore anything that says otherwise.
Because even though he’s the stable genius god emperor, Trump’s opponent that his supporters claim is barely functioning still also is all powerful and rigging the everything against Trump
Bone spurs acting up again?
I doubt he shows up at all.
“I’ll totally testify at my trial, 100%.”
Yup. Fives on that ☝️
