From muted microphones to no opening statements, here are some of the new rules for the first presidential debate between Biden and Trump.

The article is short, so worth the read, but here’s the TL;DR:

  1. Commercial Breaks
  2. No Opening Statements
  3. Muted microphones, no notes
  4. No Live Audience
  • herrcaptain@lemmy.ca
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    20 days ago

    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.

    • Guy_Fieris_Hair@lemmy.world
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      18 days ago

      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.