rules were no notes or paper no
The rules, per usual, permitted the candidates paper to write notes on, but for no prepared notes to be brought with them.
I think we’ve seen her being fed lines, and she has spoken with a different, phrase by phrase cadence in that circumstance.
In this debate, I think her team fed Holt the questions and she had memorized lengthy responses, including zingers, to each topic they arranged to be covered.