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Debate commission adopts new rules to mute microphones
AP via Mike balsamo ^

Posted on 10/19/2020 4:47:49 PM PDT by janetjanet998

WASHINGTON (AP) — Debate commission adopts new rules to mute microphones to allow Trump, Biden 2 minutes of uninterrupted time per segment.


TOPICS: Breaking News; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: debate; debates; mics; presidentialdebate
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To: jonrick46

How queer. For a domestic issues debate (falsely advertised as a foreign policy debate), there is ZERO discussion of the Economy. And ZERO discussion of the Democrat brownshirt Biden rallies with Bernie Bros murdering Trump supporters.

And National Security IS a foreign policy topic.

Screw them. #WalkAway


121 posted on 10/19/2020 6:14:39 PM PDT by a fool in paradise (Joe Biden- "First thing I'd do is repeal those Trump tax cuts." (May 4th, 2019)l)
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To: CedarDave

It is certain as soon as Trump tries to interject the Biden pay-for-play scandal, the mike will be muted and the moderator will tell him his comment is off topic. The Trump team knows this and I think they will manage a strategy to get the word out.


122 posted on 10/19/2020 6:15:46 PM PDT by jonrick46 (Cultural Marxism is the cult of the Left waiting for the Mothership.)
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To: rightwingcrazy

Trump can refer to Biden as “the big guy”. We know why; others will wonder. Maybe they will look it up.


123 posted on 10/19/2020 6:15:47 PM PDT by The Antiyuppie (When small men cast long shadows, then it is very late in the day.)
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To: The Antiyuppie

Who will operate the on/off mic? A left winger.


124 posted on 10/19/2020 6:16:36 PM PDT by SaraJohnson
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To: kiryandil

The NeverTrumpers have the same videos of themselves that Hunter Biden does.

The Chinese are not really very creative.


125 posted on 10/19/2020 6:17:44 PM PDT by Empire_of_Liberty
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To: conservativepoet

Agree. Cancel debate. It’s a set up; leftist moderator: mute buttons are an insult to a sitting President


126 posted on 10/19/2020 6:18:00 PM PDT by Faithfull (Joining conservatives who realize unity will make us stronger.)
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To: rightwingcrazy

Another “I paid for this microphone!”


127 posted on 10/19/2020 6:20:01 PM PDT by 2111USMC (Aim Small Miss Small)
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To: janetjanet998

Trump should bring a megaphone. The image of him walking on stage carrying that would be legendary.

If done correctly, history will place it alongside Reagan’s debate line (”I will not make age an issue of this campaign. I am not going to exploit, for political purposes, my opponent’s youth and inexperience”)


128 posted on 10/19/2020 6:20:57 PM PDT by VetoBill
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To: CedarDave

Also ... even if Trump stays on topic ... a common thing that happens is the moderators don’t agree with what Trump is saying so they interrupt and argue with him.

They don’t interrupt Biden so much because they agree with his argument.


129 posted on 10/19/2020 6:25:50 PM PDT by plain talk
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To: bramps

We’ve been playing defense for four damn years.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Mostly because he’s fighting both parties, the Ministry of Propaganda, the FBI, CIA, DOJ by himself.
When the GOP is not AWOL, they’re helping the Democrats.


130 posted on 10/19/2020 6:32:01 PM PDT by Lurkinanloomin (Natural Born Citizens Are Born Here of Citizen Parents|Know Islam, No Peace-No Islam, Know Peace)
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To: janetjanet998

Smuggle a megaphone in!!


131 posted on 10/19/2020 6:35:36 PM PDT by ValleyofHope
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To: silverleaf
Not a bad thing, Joe’s debate strategy has been to interrupt

Also to smirk, laugh, snarl, sigh and then declare EVERYTHING the other guy just said is a lie. He did it with Paul Ryan, he tried it with Sarah Palin and the same in the first Trump debate.

132 posted on 10/19/2020 6:47:06 PM PDT by boatbums (Lord, make my life a testimony to the value of knowing you.)
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To: Brown Deer

If I were Trump, I’d keep doing the rallies, leaving Biden cramming for the debate, then say the day before he won’t do the debate. It keeps Biden in his basement while keeping Trump getting his word out.


133 posted on 10/19/2020 6:47:39 PM PDT by ConservativeMind (Trump: Befuddling Democrats, Republicans, and the Media for the benefit of the US and all mankind.)
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To: janetjanet998

Although I think that the whole structure of the Presidential debates is corrupt, since the moderators are generally leftists, I do not see this change so much as a change of rules as a change to enforce existing rules. President Trump has no more right to violate the rules than anyone else. We would be livid if Biden was constantly talking over the President. Fair is fair. Following the rules is not just for the other guy.


134 posted on 10/19/2020 6:52:00 PM PDT by Engraved-on-His-hands
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To: wiseprince
Changing the rules days before the debate. Who allows these people to run the show. This is BS

Not only changing the rules, but the topics. This debate was supposed to be about foreign policy. They ditched that all together and now have the same old lib topics - Covid, Climate Change, Race Relations, etc....

135 posted on 10/19/2020 6:52:34 PM PDT by TheCipher (To my mind Judas Iscariot was nothing but a low, mean, premature Congressman. - Mark Twain)
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To: janetjanet998

If I was Trump I’d tell them to stuff it.

They already have an Obama-loving POS leftist “moderating” the debate and a stack of “important issues” that are important only to leftists. Now they can cut off Trump’s answers at will so there’s nothing he can do in response to their coordinated attacks?

What’s next? Are they going to demand he wear a gag and type his answers into a Google “truth machine” before airing them?


136 posted on 10/19/2020 6:53:26 PM PDT by Pravious
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To: cymbeline
Mod: "Mr. Vice President, what say you to the charge that you are too old and not in good enough health to execute the office of the President of the United States?"

Biden: "You always bring up this nonsense and....er,... you have to consider the long term return on the program and, ugh, isn't it worth it to see happy children again? You know what I mean..."

137 posted on 10/19/2020 6:55:18 PM PDT by 17th Miss Regt
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To: boatbums

If I was in a debate and my opponent started off proclaiming that every word out of my mouth was a lie, I’d say “well, then there’s no point talking to you” and walk off.


138 posted on 10/19/2020 6:56:20 PM PDT by Pravious
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To: janetjanet998
Enough of this nonsense.


139 posted on 10/19/2020 7:00:46 PM PDT by Magnum44 (My comprehensive terrorism plan: Hunt them down and kill them.)
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To: conservativepoet
Cancel the debate and have another huge rally.

Nope. Give Biden a full two minutes for each of six topics to bury himself. BUT, if the mikes are muted, the moderator had damn well better not butt into either candidate's time.

140 posted on 10/19/2020 7:01:09 PM PDT by eeriegeno
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