Oh, I'm quite sure that is the intention. But over 100 million people will be watching this live and unfiltered tonight. Perhaps the biggest TV audience in history. At least the biggest audience for a national presidential debate.
I'm quite sure Donald Trump has been well-prepared for everything that they can throw at him. If he maintains his composure, flashes his winning smile, and sticks to the issues that have gotten him traction so far (illegal immigration, trade, jobs, law and order), the American people will see right through the dirty tricks and tactics of Crooked Hillary and her bought-and-paid for media shills.
90 minutes of Trump live and unfiltered. The floundering HRC campaign is making a risky gamble that Trump will commit a major blunder. It's the only chance they have right now to get back in the game. It's a risky gamble because more likely, it will be Cankles that becomes unhinged and screechy.
If she was ahead in this race, there would be no debate. She'd find a reason not to have them and then she'd sit on her lead and run out the clock. But her campaign is unraveling and is in free fall.
It seems likely that the majority of people who will be voting in this election will be watching, and my guess is that there will be enough fire works that many will watch the entire 90 minutes. The moderator will be biased; Hillary will lie; Trump will be Trump; and afterward the media will attempt a Trump take down by “fact checking” everything that he said.
But the damage will be done, this will be a side by side comparison and no matter how much cheer leading the Left does the contrast between the two candidates will be stark. Especially on modern Big Screen High Definition Televisions... Trump is more impressive than Hillary by every possible measure and that is what will shine through no matter how much we are told not to believe our lying eyes afterward.