• Boddhisatva@lemmy.world
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    6 months ago

    I just hope the moderator has a microphone kill switch so Trump can’t just yell over Biden’s answers and filibuster the whole thing as he has done in the past.

    Trump talked constantly through the 90-minute debate, sometimes incoherently and other times rattling off unfounded and baseless attacks against Democrat Joe Biden while refusing to let the moderator even ask questions.

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      6 months ago

      According to the npr story I just heard Biden’s team did set “microphones open only when it’s the candidates turn to speak” as one of the terms. Also no live audience, only candidates and moderator in a studio.

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      6 months ago

      I groaned when I saw CNN is hosting. They’ll let him do whatever he wants, it’s good for ratings

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      6 months ago

      That’s one of the Biden requirements, when one person is speaking, the other microphone is killed.

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      6 months ago

      They need sound proof booths too. Otherwise, Trump will absolutely be shouting over Biden, trying to distract him and make him stutter, while it’s Bidens turn.