I'm not going to let you say CNN is biased.
“Perhaps the biggest surprise is that Biden agreed to debate this early“
Biden didn’t agree to an early debate, someone else did.
Who we don’t know.
Many speculate, probably correctly, that it gives the DNC time to show Biden the door if need be.
Is there a way to watch the debate online?
If Joe is able to perform well, he gets to stay in the campaign, if not, this gives the Democrats the excuse they need to replace him with Gretchen Whitmer or Gavin Newsom.
I surprise myself by how much I am anticipating this debate.
Almost as much as a Sports fan awaits the Super Bowl.
I won’t even be watching, though. At least not the whole thing, live.
I have a part time job on Thursdays.
I will harvest the sound bites, gifs and headlines de facto style.
All President Trump has to do is OPEN with a comment about how he is here to make America great again and NOT make you, CNN nor joe biden look good.
Drugs are a vehicle for the psycho op they've performed on/in him.
Follow the next one or two Q's with, "I don't have to answer your questions, YOU have to air MY policies because this is not a debate, it's a Q&A session, which I did NOT agree to.
Do you remember Laken Riley, the innocent nursing student brutally raped and murdered by joe biden's elimination of my insurance of a working wall and his open door for every manner of criminal to invade our nation?
A couple of off script comments and the entire CNN "program" will have to take an emergency commercial break.
We know what to expect and Trump will probably handle them pretty well. But, after all these years, why do the Republicans still fail to get a conservative as part of these moderator panels???
I'm not going to let you say CNN is biased.
CNN, which is known as the Clinton news network or the DNCNN should’ve never been awarded hosting another Republican debate after the Donna Brazile cheating by giving all the questions to Hitlery. That should’ve been an automatic disqualification from any RNC debate! Why were they rewarded with another sham cheating debate? Trump really stepped on it this time. He could’ve easily flipped the tables around on them, but instead acted like a big man with a big ego. I will debate anytime anywhere with any moderator etc… Take a good look what they’re gonna do to him during the sham show tomorrow . Our base will be reeling after the debate tomorrow night! Every imaginable get Trump or stop Trump is going to be thrown at him from every which way, including the outside sources who are supposed to be journalists will straight out lie to the American people with their fact checks. Don’t you know that the 16 people at camp David are probably all the media institutions colluding to bring Trump down tomorrow night. And I am going to go ahead and call the debate winner for FJB…. Trump threw him a lifeline…sad! This nation is deeply divided, and unfortunately, this race is still neck in neck. Do not believe what the pollsters are dishing out. It’s a tight race. It can go either way!<p%
Anything can happen from here to November 5 and believe me the DC swamp along with the judicial branch, including the Supreme Court, Will be working feverishly to defeat Trump . It’s a do or die for our nation and the DC swamp knows that it’s a do or die for their shadow government too if Trump wins!
Q Poll just out: Trump plus 4!!
The debate commission recommended this microphone for Trump.
Thanks in advance to all the FReepers who are going to watch the debate. I can’t stand to look at President mashed potato brains, much less hear him so I’ll be monitoring the debate here on FR.
We'll verify it AFTER the debate when we see how long it takes Biden to get back to a regular schedule.
How many "lids" will the White House call next week? How many days will go by without Biden making afternoon campaign appearances or White House events?
It won't be just the week before the debate that Biden was AWOL from presidential activities, it will be the weeks afterwards, too.
-PJ
That's why I've been posting this all week:
-PJ
The best way to stop this debate network ego bias is to go back to the way debates were moderated prior to 1996. Prior to the 1996 debates, the network broadcasting the debate had the host limited to moderating the debate, that is, timekeeping and enforcing the rules. A separate panel of questioners were from mixed media, including the competing networks and print journalists. Beginning with the 1996 debates, the only people questioning the candidates were from the network hosting the debates.By going back to past practices, perhaps the other talent at the hosting network won't be so defensive when guests come on the air to talk about the debates? It's too much for one (or two) to do: moderate the timekeeping and rules, ask the questions, listen to the answers, follow up with other questions.
It's better to let the moderate focus on moderating while the panelists focus on the questions and answers.
Case in point: Chris Wallace moderating the third debate between Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton.
With time running out, Wallace asked Trump if he'd accept the results of the election.
The next day Wallace said that he lost track and "forgot" to ask Clinton the same question.Wallace: Mr. Trump, I want to ask you about one last question in this topic. You’ve been warning at rallies recently that this election is rigged and that Hillary Clinton is in the process of trying to steal it from you. Your running mate Governor Pence pledged on Sunday that he and you, his words, will absolutely accept the result of this election. Today your daughter Ivanka said the same thing. I want to ask you here on the stage tonight, do you make the same commitment that you’ll absolutely accept the result of the election.
Trump: I will look at it at the time. I’m not looking at anything now, I’ll look at it at the time. What I’ve seen, what I’ve seen, is so bad. First of all, the media is so dishonest and so corrupt and the pile on is so amazing. “The New York Times” actually wrote an article about it, but they don’t even care. It is so dishonest, and they have poisoned the minds of the voters. But unfortunately for them, I think the voters are seeing through it. I think they’re going to see through it, we’ll find out on November 8th, but I think they’re going to see through it. If you look --
Wallace: But, but --
Trump: Excuse me, Chris. If you look at your voter rolls, you will see millions of people that are registered to vote. Millions. This isn’t coming from me. This is coming from Pew report and other places. Millions of people that are registered to vote that shouldn’t be registered to vote. So let me just give you one other thing. I talk about the corrupt media. I talk about the millions of people. I’ll tell you one other thing. She shouldn’t be allowed to run. It’s -- She’s guilty of a very, very serious crime. She should not be allowed to run, and just in that respect I say it’s rigged because she should never --
Wallace: But, but --
Trump: Chris. She should never have been allowed to run for the presidency based on what she did with e-mails and so many other things.
Wallace: But, sir, there is a tradition in this country, in fact, one of the prides of this country is the peaceful transition of power and no matter how hard fought a campaign is that at the end of the campaign, that the loser concedes to the winner. Not saying you’re necessarily going to be the loser or the winner, but that the loser concedes to the winner and the country comes together in part for the good of the country. Are you saying you’re not prepared now to commit to that principle?
Trump: What I’m saying is that I will tell you at the time. I’ll keep you in suspense, okay?
Clinton: Well Chris, let me respond to that because that’s horrifying. You know, every time Donald thinks things aren’t going in his direction, he claims whatever it is, is rigged against him. The FBI conducted a yearlong investigation into my e-mails. They concluded there was no case. He said the FBI was rigged. He lost the Iowa caucus, he lost the Wisconsin primary, he said the Republican primary was rigged against him. Then, Trump University gets sued for fraud and racketeering. He claims the court system and the federal judge is rigged against him. There was even a time when he didn’t get an Emmy for his TV program three years in a row and he started tweeting that the Emmys were rigged against him.
Trump: Should have gotten it.
(Laughter)
Clinton: This is a mind-set. This is how Donald thinks, and it’s funny, but it’s also really troubling. That is not the way our democracy works. We’ve been around for 240 years. We’ve had free and fair elections. We’ve accepted the outcomes when we may not have liked them, and that is what must be expected of anyone standing on a debate stage during a general election. You know, President Obama said the other day when you’re whining before the game is even finished--
(Applause)
Wallace: Hold on, folks.
Clinton:-- It just shows you’re not up to doing the job. And let’s be clear about what he’s saying and what that means. He’s denigrating, he is talking down our democracy. And I, for one, am appalled that somebody who is the nominee of one of our two major parties would take that kind of position.
Trump: I think what the FBI did and what the Department of Justice did, including meeting with her husband, the Attorney General, in the back of an airplane on the tarmac in Arizona, I think it’s disgraceful. I think it’s a disgrace.
Wallace: All right.
Trump: I think we’ve never had a situation so bad
(Applause)
Wallace: Hold on, folks. This doesn’t do any good for anyone. Let’s please continue the debate and let’s move onto the subject of foreign hotspots...
To this day, President Trump is still being hounded over accepting the results of elections while Clinton is still acting as if she were the true winner in 2016.
This is what happens when debates are not conducted with separation of responsibilities. Moderating debates has become an exercise in ego management, not debate management. It's time to go back to the old ways of having a dedicated panel of questioners separate from the moderation of the debate.