If Joe gives a somewhat poor answer to any question, Trump should make a joke out of it — face the camera and say, “I know CNN has a two-minute delay on this, so you may have missed this. They may have edited it out. But Joe was just babbling incoherently for awhile. But I think they got him back on track now. Anyway, you asked me about housing in the US, and I will say this ...”
Two minutes. I bet they will put lying fact checks on the chyron below Trump.
If they start with a 5-minute delay they can end on time and have a 5-minute accumulated gap. 10 seconds here, 15 seconds there. The public would never know.
They will edit those words out if Trump says them.
That would just be edited into a long pause to make Trump look hesitant.
He should have a way to get the debate on tape as it happens.