Posted on 09/04/2024 6:31:15 PM PDT by Macho MAGA Man
ABC News released the rules for next week’s presidential debate between Trump and Kamala Harris.
According to ABC, both Trump and Harris agreed to the rules.
The debate is scheduled for September 10.
The Debate Rules per ABC News:
The debate will last 90 minutes with two commercial breaks
The two seated moderators, David Muir and Linsey Davis, will be the only people asking questions
A coin flip was held virtually on September 3 to determine podium placements and order of closing arguments; Trump won the coin toss and chose to select the order of statements. He will offer the last closing statement, and Harris selected the right podium on screen (stage left)
Candidates will be introduced by moderators
Candidates will enter upon introduction from opposite sides of the stage; the incumbent party will be introduced first
There will be no opening statements; closing statements will be two minutes per candidate
Candidates will stand behind the podiums for the duration of the debate
Props or prewritten notes are not allowed onstage
No topics or questions will be shared in advance
Candidates will be given a pen, a pad of paper, and a bottle of water
Candidates will have two minutes to answer questions, two minutes for rebuttals, and one extra minute for follow-ups, clarifications, or responses
Candidates’ microphones will be live only for the candidate whose turn it is to speak and muted when the time belongs to another candidate
Candidates will not be permitted to ask questions of each other
Campaign staff may not interact with candidates during commercial breaks
Moderators will seek to enforce timing agreements and ensure a civilized discussion
There will be audience in the room
The Harris campaign last Monday requested both candidates’ mics be unmuted for the entire 90-minute debate.
(Excerpt) Read more at thegatewaypundit.com ...
Wonder? You know it will be.
First question: Have you or any of your predecessors owned slaves?
First question: Have you or any of your ancestors owned slaves?
Unless you are doing audience questions, or unless the audience is silent, there’s no reason for them to be at a high level debate. It definitely does eat into time if they clap.
“No topics or questions will be shared in advance”.
Really? We found out after the fact that Hillary was given them in advance; why not Kamala?
lol, we’ll see. Should be interesting. The dems aren’t going to allow a Harris crash & burn to continue to the election.
I’m betting the stress and anticipation are going to be too much for Harris and that she ultimately ignores her campaign’s warnings and gets sauced before going on stage.
We’ll see.
the idiots at gateway pundit have it backwards: ABC accepted the “CNN” rules which means there will be NO audience!
https://deadline.com/2024/09/kamala-harris-trump-debate-abc-news-1236078305/
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/harris-trump-debate-rules-include-muted-mics-and-no-audience
and many more ...
Good on no audience. ABC would have surely have stacked it with libtards who would have been hooting and hollering after every single inane statement from Harris.
The ABC website says there will be NO audience.
Trump can easily get around that. In response to one of her questions he could say :"I wish she would have answered the question and more importantly why ( insert his question here)
Karmella will be asked, “What goes through your head whenever you remember you’re the first bipoc female nominee from any major party, and you’re running against a 35-times convicted felon?”
They can’t legally dump Hairass at this point. If they Seth-Rich her them Walz (even worse) becomes the nominee
Sounds like debate Trump is overconfident.
Trump should focus on issues. He now has good attack dogs in RFK Jr and Tulsi who can really go after Commie-La.
“Candidates will not be permitted to ask questions of each other”
Trump: “I won’t ask, but I wonder why she hasn’t been asked about her flip-flops re: X, or Y, or Z by anyone tonight or for 40 days...?
So, Lincoln and Douglass are somewhere laughing their asses off.
Good point. It’s a good thing when the candidate stays above
the fray, and has someone else doing the “heavy lifting.”
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