I’d rather see them on: Are you smarter than a 5th grader.
Or Who wants to be a millionaire show.
The main problem with the debate formats is that no one rates
them for did they answer the question, or as the most often do rattle off a meaningless portion of their stump speech.
The debate format also fails to show much of character traits.
If 0 was forced to show who he really was, he would not now be president.
How about if the debates had an ombudsman? After each answer, the ombudsman could point out the lies. In cases where there are lies of omission, they could fill in the rest of the truth.