"Come on, Joey. You can make it. I got your hand, baby. Just one tiny step down."
Posted on 06/28/2024 10:43:52 PM PDT by nickcarraway
Muted microphones and no live studio audience were among the debate guidelines.
The nation watched as President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump squared up Thursday evening in the first presidential debate of the 2024 general election.
While this debate wasn't the first time the two candidates contended over issues ranging from immigration and the economy to abortion access -- this presidential debate saw the two candidates forced to follow the rules.
Ahead of the debate, held in a studio at CNN's Atlanta headquarters, both campaigns agreed to a set of guidelines established by CNN, which included muted microphones, no live studio audience and restricting the candidates from consulting with their teams during commercial breaks.
Biden-Trump presidential debate live updates: High-stakes argument ends While the microphone muting kept the cross-fire between the candidates orderly, the debate's strict time guidelines seemingly made for less pushback from the event's moderators, CNN anchors Jake Tapper and Dana Bash.
The debate saw Biden and Trump continuously calling each other a "liar," but with little-to-no live fact-checking by the moderators.
"This debate is a master-class in what's wrong with our media-saturated, horse-race obsessed politics," Robert. E Kelly, a professor of political science, wrote on X Thursday.
"Trump is just lying and making stuff up but he says it 'vigorously' and doesn't get fact-checked. Therefore he's winning," Kelly wrote, adding, "We'll spend the next month debating Biden's age rather than Trump's staggering incompetence."
Another viewer suggested the debate format should feature a "buzzer" that would go off every time the candidates said a false statement.
"We need a buzzer to go off every time a false statement is made by a candidate," Amee Vanderpool, a political writer, wrote on X.
"Until then any debate in this format, with moderators who refuse to fact check statements
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If it means meeting the MSM's and Uniparty's bread and circuses expectations for the voters to shut up and do as they are told, it was a disaster.
Certainly better than having Chris Wallace debate on behalf of Biden.
Riiiiight. So this author goes to the interwebs and grabs posts from far leftists that were unhappy with the results of the debate.
Dr. Jill and other Biden handlers are guilty of senior abuse.
Trump's warts and weaknesses aside...Biden is not fit to make jello.
To keep him there only proves once again...the shadow government exists, that it stays in the shadows for a reason, that reason is that those who lurk in the shadows...are usually up to no-good.
If sunlight is the best disinfectant, these people represent a bacteria much more dangerous to the masses than a viral pandemic.
These left-wing hacks calling what President Trump says “lies” were saying the accusation that Biden is senile was a lie.
So there you go.
Watch for Joe Biden to challenge President Trump to a third debate sometime in mid-December😅😅😅
the audience clapping can help cover up Biden long freeze ups. I noticed it at the rally he held.
The left obsessively accuses Trump of lying but never say what the lies are. They think Trump’s world view is a lie. An alternate universe thing.
Yes, this worked suprisingly well. Moderators more-or-less behaved themselves, both candidates took turns, didn’t run over. In all that, one of the best debates I’ve watched. Plus, it gave Biden plenty of time to come apart and destroy his campaign.
The debate format was tailored to give Biden an advantage. Muted mics meant he could concentrate without being interrupted by Trump. No audience meant less distractions from applause and audience outbursts. Also, the original rules specified they’d be seated, but that was changed.
Yes, it showed how bad the media’s boy really was!
It showed how much in the bag the media has been for Biden.
What was the final nail was that his enabler wife had to lead him where to go, at the end.
…” Trump of lying but never say what the lies are”
…Jon Stewart said Trump was lying without one example
Leftists whining because their propaganda arm - the corporate media - didn’t interfere enough for their liking.
It worked for trump, it kept him focused because there wasn’t a crowd to play too like at the rallies
Biden’s apparent willingness to show up at the debate despite
his infirmities can be ascribed to his virulent megalomania.
Biden’s obsession for great or grandiose performance is
exhibited by outbursts of wildly extravagant meanderings.
Megalomania is a delusional mental illness that is marked by feelings
of personal omnipotence and grandeur, that one can do no wrong.
He actually thought he won the debate.
The only real information in this article is that Robert E. Kelly, professor of political science is a moron.
"Come on, Joey. You can make it. I got your hand, baby. Just one tiny step down."
Letting them talk, not having an audience of cheering sycophants, and not making it about Chris Wallace? Yes. It worked.
Put Jesse Watters in charge of the buzzer and I'm on board... put some brain-dead liberal who only knows one side in charge and we're 'otta' there...
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