Trump and RFK should not participate in debates with a Democrat nominee, particularly Biden. Alternatively, Trump and RFK should debate each other and only only each other, sans traditional media moderators. Neither get a fair shake from anyone in the mainstream media. Personally, I would prefer candidates ask questions of each other and the moderator does nothing more that keep time.
The debate rules should be simple. Debate segments are divided by topics. Candidate should keep their questions on topic. There is a time limit of five minutes to respond to a question and there is a rebuttal to each question that has a time limit of five minutes. That avoids questions that are only answered by one candidate. Additionally, there should be no fact checking. Americans are smart enough to do their own fact checking. Those that don’t are not going to change their minds about anything.
Representatives from the Trump and RFK campaigns should make a joint statement at the beginning of the debate stating that the American people and media should grade the debate by the quality of questions and answers from both candidates and the primary purpose is to fully understand what both candidates would do as President.
Do it the way that Cheney and Lieberman did in 2000 with Larry King holding it together.