Here is an answer to the debate format concern:
Format: The first presidential debate will be divided into six 15-minute segments during which the moderators will pose their own questions to the candidates. Candidates will have two minutes to respond to each question and they’ll also have a chance to respond to one another. The topics include: COVID-19, race and protests (and the violence that has come from some of them), the Supreme Court, the economy, the records of Trump and Biden and the integrity of the election.
https://www.usnews.com/news/elections/articles/a-guide-to-the-2020-presidential-debates
so the format nominally appears to be the standard debate format point, counterpoint, rebut, rebut.
however, that’s not what i seem to recall. what i recall is wallace going free range, asking each participant different questions, interrupting, and giving his own hostile followup questions to one debater (trump).
thus the debate turned into two timesliced interviews with wallace asking leading followup questions of trump but not biden.
what am i missing??
the format quickly became a free for all and several times wallace lost control for which imho he had himself to blame.
The 2 minute format is wrong to begin with. It plays to democrats who run with constant talking points.
President Trump is about complex issues and real life, which take more than 2 minutes to explain.
It takes time, too, to rebut constant lies, which already have been addressed, but were put forth as facts by the biased moderator.
i went back to the beginning of the debate.
trump listens patiently to biden’s first rebuttal to the first question response.
biden attempts interrupt trump’s rebuttal at least 4 times.
after the 4th biden interrupt, wallace observes that it is now “open discussion” time (whatever that means).
a side observation is that biden scratches his right ear about 30 seconds into trump’s first presentation (the question concerns nominating ACB to the reUSSC by trump). Did biden have a receiver hidden in his right ear?