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
Bets on whether trump walks out at the break?
Bone spurs acting up again?
I doubt he shows up at all.
Yup. Fives on that ☝️
“I’ll totally testify at my trial, 100%.”
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
Anyone who thinks muting a mic is going to things civil and with any level of decorum hasn’t been paying attention.
Honestly, it’s perfect. I don’t know if you’ve ever seen a heated debate where if someone is an asshole their mic gets muted, and you can still faintly hear them yelling in the background through other people’s mics while conversation continues among the people whose mics are still active. Or, where they try to barge their way over and grab some other mic that’s still active. I’ve observed both of these, and they are exactly what we need right now.
I don’t for a second imagine that this debate will remain civil or with any level of decorum, if it does happen, whatever the rules are. But the optics that could ensue from mic muting are exactly what our political discourse needs right now. Like, completely. To a T.
I might just be too cynical at this point. It’d be fun to see, but at this point I suspect that any attempt to keep Trump, and I won’t pretend to think it’s about anyone but him really given the history, in check will be brushed off as ‘the biased,unfair moderators are just trying to silence him’ rather than convincing any of his followers he might be a bit too volatile for public office.
they should put them in a sound proof box, pipe in the what the other guy is saying when it’s not their turn, and mute the off-mic in the broadcast… but give us subtitles so we can still read what they’re saying.
Gun rigged to a sound meter during opponents time. Better pray you don’t have to sneeze.
It’s the American way!
I like the cut of your jib
I admire the hitch you used to tie on your sheets.
Letting the parties replace the non partisan committee is still a terrible choice. Unfortunately both parties agreed it was best if they just worked together directly to set these up, and it only includes their two parties.
They’re never going to give that power back up. They’re never going to invite a 3d party. And with how often the two parties actually work out deals, I feel like a lot of future debates are gonna be cancelled.
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?
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.
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.
Also so people can assess the vigor and wit of two candidates that each side has been calling decrepit and cognitively impaired.
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.
Mildly surprised theyve agreed to a debate at all.
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.
Big time PDSD
Big time Paul Dano Sound Delivery?
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!
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.
I can’t wait to hear about sharks and boats
At this point, do they really need to be in the same room?
Zoom debates! I can use my bingo card from work!
It would be hilarious if they both shit their diapers at the same time.
Not if… When.
This is going to be a train wreck. Two old senile men that belong in a nursing home yelling at each other.
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.
