Posted on 06/26/2024 4:11:10 AM PDT by MtnClimber
The Republicans need to stop agreeing to these corrupt debates. Just refuse to be put through the biased process and make speeches explaining why.
I agree. This is a travesty and it is 100% the fault of Republicans. I have no idea what they are thinking.
Easy. Don’t have “moderators” ask questions. Have the participants pose questions and respond amongst themselves.
Or have a moderator from each side. I think a debate moderated by Tucker Carlson and Bill Maher would get ratings.
Mike Wallace may have a few pointers if you can find him.
But that’s still not actually a debate. It is in interview panel.
Chris Wallace correction.
But the questions would be about things people actually care about. Nobody cares about Gaza when they are struggling to feed their family.
Mods should only be time-keepers and just introduce a topic, but not an actual question. For instance: Illegal Immigration - Mr. Biden, you have two minutes. Then Mr. Trump, you have two minutes. Then, Mr. Biden, you may ask Mr. Trump one question and he has two minutes to respond. Then Mr. Trump you may ask Mr. Biden one question and he has two minutes to respond. Then next topic. That would be useful.
Pretty much my thoughts.
Each candidate would provide half the questions.
A time keeper would ask the question alternating between the two parties.
A timer light would indicate when the candidate was running out of time.
The candidate/s mike would be cut when he was out of time.
I think having the candidate select the question would provide a more illuminating and lively debate.
This would also make it less likely that one candidate would get the questions before the debate as happened with Hillary vs. Trump.
The moderator need only get the questions the day of the event.
Like lawyers for each side getting to ask questions of witnesses on direct and cross examination. That would give each candidate a chance to talk about both their positive agenda/proposals, as well as have to respond to criticisms.
The selection of topics itself is susceptible to bias.
common sense doesn’t work in politics
Why are so many people afraid to just have the candidates debate each other?
It’s as if we’ve got lots of MSM executives here who want to promote their news personalities in prime time.
The point is it has gotten to be more of a spectacled media production and less of what it should be. Kind of like the NFL Draft. Maybe DJT likes this, because he likes spectacles... many say it’s 3 against 1 forget in 2016 it was 21 against 1 for many debates during the primary season. Candidates + mods versus DJT.
They have mute on the mics.
Will they have a delay on them? To catch ‘cursing’, you know.
1) stop using democrat-controlled television networks
2) stop using democrat-controlled moderators.
easy
First of all, these are not “debates.” They are joint press conferences. Real debates would demonstrate some weaknesses in our candidates.
People watch these things for the same reason they watch NASCAR; they are looking for a wreck.
Honestly, in terms of learning anything about Presidential Candidates…these things are useless.
The real debates are the TV ads that Biden’s people are flooding the airwaves with.
My fear is that the Trump team is going to make the same mistake as in 2020 and not counter them, because they probably assume nobody watches network TV anymore.
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