The article is short, so worth the read, but here’s the TL;DR:
- Commercial Breaks
- No Opening Statements
- Muted microphones, no notes
- No Live Audience
I’m kinda shocked that the Trump campaign would agree to this. These rules seem directly in response to his debate style.
For all Biden’s many faults, having to share a stage with him in a civilized manner is almost certain to work against Trump. Especially when his campaign is consistently trying to paint Biden as mentally unwell and out of touch.
I’m glad it’s happening, just shocked that it’s happening under these conditions. I fully expected the Trump campaign to find a reason to back out leading up to this, and any of those rules would likely be a justification for that that his base would be fine with.
He’ll show, say how the liberal media is against him, and walk out.
His base will consider it a win because he “owned the libs” and “he’s too smart to play their games!”
Reality is a poorly written sitcom and I hate it.
He won’t get to say that though. His mic will be muted until it’s his time to speak. If he tries that and walks out, he looks weak and looking weak is about the only thing that will turn his cult of republikkklowns against him. He can’t show up, if he shows up, he’ll look weak. He’ll blame the liberal media before hand and not show.
The lack of notes will probably hurt Biden mostly. Trump will go off on crazy tangents, which he does anyway and probably doesn’t read notes someone wrote for him ever, it doesn’t take more than 3 brain cells to spout off racist shit and get angry people angry. But Biden will say 3 words and forget where he is, that’s what they are probably counting on.
Edit: WOW it’s fucking crazy how right I was. Keep downvoting.
Commercial Breaks
What the fuck?
Broadcasters are using public spectrum. They don’t need to make money off of this.
Broadcasters are using public spectrum. They don’t need to make money off of this.
They sure don’t, but it definitely represents the current state of the union where everything and everyone has to be monetized 🤷♂️
It’s on CNN, cable is not the public spectrum.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cable_television_in_the_United_States
Are cable lines entirely running through private land? Is CNN carried on a satellite television provider?
Public spectrum is over the air broadcast frequencies. Cable is, by definiton, not on that.
Commercial breaks are also breaks in the debate where the candidate can stop and think/get fed his next talking point/line
From the article:
However, campaign staff will be prohibited from interacting with their respective candidates during these intermissions, denying them the opportunity for strategic consultations or to touch up the candidates’ appearance.
- Locked cage
- Two men enter, one man leaves
SUNDAY SUNDAY SUNDAY! RAGE IN A CAGE! BE THERE!
If only Clinton could have had muted mics against Captain Gibberish.
I am (unronically) convinced that this sentence did more to secure Biden’s presidency than the entire rest of the debate.
That’s why I think trump will go down in the polls as we get closer to the election. The American public genuinely did want trump to shut up when Biden said that. I hope Biden tells him to shut up again at this debate with the muted mics. It would make him go nuts.
Literally just say “I whooped your ass and I’ll do it again.” Trump would lose his mind. He never encounters people who say that to him. Everyone around him is a sycophant.
I’m sure trump will be strong on opinion and bluster, yet nonexistent on facts or strategies.
He’ll probably call foul on the rules that remove his strongest advantage - a whipped-up mob.
