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”)
Smuggle a megaphone in!!
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.
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?
My take the Dems are scared of something to go to this extreme.....
The a-holes at the Debate Commission have yet to realize they’re the problem
PRES DEBATES
—Someone else posted a good idea about chess clocks, and I’ll expand on it much further. Two hour debate for example, each candidate gets an hour on the clock. Moderator introduces them, then flips a coin on who goes first.
—Each candidate gets a button that does four things. Mutes their own mic, unmutes the other guy’s mic, stops their own countdown clock, and starts the other guy’s clock. They can talk as long as they want, no interruptions, but they only get half the total debate time. They also get a pen n paper to keep notes for their responses to each other.
—Moderator has a button that mutes both and freezes both clocks, but his only role is to provoke conversation if the candidates hit a stop in their debate, from a list of questions/subjects whose exact wording was agreed to by both candidates prior. Or keep things civil if it gets heated/personal, but since each candidate is in full control of handing over the mic, it should remain rather calm. And move, since going slow only hurts yourself and your clock. Plus I’m sure each candidate wants to save their time to try and be the final speaker.
—After both clocks hit zero, they each get two(?) minutes for closing thoughts, muted from each other, so there’s no further debate/rebuttals/continuation of debate from whomever goes second, it’s just a short closing speech.
—The moderator can then thank both, end the night, and remind the audience about what circus is on at 8pm eastern tonight, and/or beg everyone to watch the Cowboys and try to prop up their ratings dive.
- multiple-debates. Do 2 or so debates per candidate, where they can pick 5-10 moderators, then other campaign selects from that group. Then follow the chess clock method, so moderators don’t really matter anyway.
** Note all of these debates are to be held in a neutral location (stadium/arena, civic center, hotel ballroom, ampitheatre, zoos, convention centers, etc.), scattered around the countrry, and can be attended/reported on by any press organization. No “home crowd” at the CNN or MSNBC or Fox studio. Candidates are REQUIRED to attend these debates to be eligible for election. Each campaign gets 1/3 of the audience tickets to be handed out at their discretion, the other 1/3 can be split between the host location, city host mayor, and debate sponsors (something’s gotta pay for the location rental, AV, snacks, etc.).
Trump should avoid any debate controlled by the Deep State Debate Commission.
Just appear with friendly interviewers.
That is the way to win.
F@#$ that. The way they react under fire is much more revealing than how they recite rehearsed talking points to anticipated questions. What next? Choreographed boxing matches and MMA tourneys?
Do they really think we are dumb enough to not know what they are attempting to do?
Fine, let Joe mumble.
I hope President Trump pulls out!
Two minutes is a mighty long time for someone speaking through a brain fog and little to no recall of what he did an hour ago. I think this will come out to a major win for President Trump.
They seem to have backtracked from the earlier proposition “Mike Wallace or a later moderator will rush out and tie a gag on the mouth of the candidate who tries to continue speaking.”
Decided it would take too much time with all the running back and forth.
Changing the rules within 48 hours?
Trump needs to tell them-—NO.
-PJ
Good.
Contests have rules.
People who break the rules should lose the contest.
Two minutes is *NOT* two minutes and 10 seconds. You don’t get a fourth out in baseball, or a fifth down in football.
If you can’t make your point, coherently, in two minutes you don’t have any business running for city council, or claiming to have a college degree; formal debate is only a notch above T-ball; anyone who can’t understand and adhere to the rules is retard
President Trump doesn’t need a microphone. He’s a trained speaker. Just project his voice and Biden’s microphone will pick it up.
Also, ignore their questions and talk about what he wants to talk about.
This is just more censorship. All they’re going to do is mute Trump much more than Biden. He should not agree to this censorship.