In yet another transparent effort to support Joe Biden, the presidential debate commission has announced they will mute microphones during the two minute answer sessions as part of a strategy to assist the promotion of disinformation.
(Via New York Post) The Commission on Presidential Debates has decided to mute microphones to allow each candidate the opportunity for uninterrupted remarks during this week’s final forum.
The mute button will be featured at the start of each 15-minute segment during opening comments, according to the commission. After that time, both mics will be turned on without a mute option to enable debate. (read more)
The Trump campaign responds:
No idea why PDJT and team are putting up with this.
If he doesn’t, then the Dems and the MSM will call him a quitter and a coward.
And?
And he has to hold on to the swing voters he had last election because too many states are close. He may have turned some off with all the interruptions in the first debate, and in the recent “debate” with Savannah Guthrie, he kept his cool even though she constantly interrupted him.
He is also holding a town hall Wednesday night on Fox with former Fox newsman Eric Bolling, He’ll get good questions, and the constrast with Welker on Thursday will be obvious, and show he can beat them even at their own unfair rules.
Fair enough. And I didn’t realize he’ll be on Fox w/Bolling. Amazed Faux is letting Bolling back in the building. How gracious of them.
This is actually good news. Potus gave Biden too much credit by interrupting. Biden struggles and rambles the longer he hss to speak. The interrupting in debate 1 was a lifeline for confused joe. Just make sure that team Trump has a audio scrambling device to hack joes earpiece.
Me too!!
Btw, why was Bolling ousted from Fox?
I think Bolling is working for Sinclair Broadcating
He was among a large group of very popular and successful Fox News hosts and anchors who in 2017 were all accused of various sexual harassment crimes and all dismissed or parted ways. This purge included former Fox News manager Roger Ailes.
It was extremely obvious to me at the time that there had been a planned infiltration of FNC by anti-Trump personnel (both guests and assistants) who all suddenly seemed to claim they were victims of lewd acts and harassment by some of the more popular personalities.
My loyalty to the network was fatally damaged when the management failed to support their most popular hosts who all had created large followings and made the network very successful. I cannot recall a single case where there was clear evidence presented other than he said/she said. Typical Deep State kind of garbage…yet these people were all dumped. I stopped watching shortly thereafter.
At the time of the accusation and his firing Bolling had also been openly opining about running for Mayor of New York. I often wonder if that is what triggered the timing for the accusation.
I wasn’t aware of that. Yes that DOES add to the bad odor around those sudden and convenient allegations.
GB, I quit watching when the bleach-blonds’ skirts slit “up to here” met their blouses “cut down to there.” It was obvious that there was a culture I didn’t like. And that was before they all started wearing stripper shoes and false eyelashes.
Faux Nooz is Hollywood’s version of Conservatism. It’s fake. It’s all pretend. And it involves the same sexual perversions and discrimination that any liberal outlet would promote.
I was not surprised by all the sexual harassment claims, nor that many of these women turn out to be of questionable character. It’s a highly sexualized environment. Journalism is not the priority.
I also was dubious about the array of blondes with short skirts. But most were all very pro Trump and didn’t echo the MSM narratives. A lot more of that garbage began right after the 2017 purge. So I look at the two occurrences as being related.
I believe the sexual harassment one of Ed Henry against Sandra Smith. I always found him very creepy and Sandra’s expressions of fear when looking at him sideways was very telling. Henry was fired and Sandra has had a complete makeover which includes a new hairstyle. loss of weight and new wardrobe. Now I can’t stand her because she’s so full of herself. haha
Who cares, Trump is going to rip SLO joe a new one
Should be fun to watch MAGA Trump.
Do you not realize how a mute button works, especially in the hands of a leftist “moderator”? PDJT will be lucky to score one point.
If it’s Kristen Welker, yes, it will be terrible. If it’s some tech person in the control room, the Trump campaign can be there to keep an eye on the person.
I’m about 99.999999% sure the button will be under the control of the Welker person with the wild, deranged leftist eyes, earning her street cred as a bonafide communist.
If Welker or anyone handling the mute button mutes the President when he brings up the Biden corruption, I hope that Republican audience will call her out loudly.
With their masks on? They are all muted.
This is beyond crazy!!
abigailstraight… they can still yell and boo with the mask on. To hell with audience rules.
The first time they mute Trump’s mic, Trump should pull out the seal of the POTUS and affix it to the front of his podium. Power move.
The President should also pull out one of those portable, hand held microphones and when the moderator complains simply reply “I’m just following the Debate Commissions precedent of changing the rules in the middle of the game.”
Better yet the President should unfurl the address of a website containing authenticated highlights from Hunter’s laptop, including an adult only section showing the alleged Hunter pedophilia videos / photos / crimes.
Make the website(s) “Pay Per View” with all proceeds directed to a charity that helps the victims of pedophilia. With a big reminder the FBI and DOJ possessed all of this incriminating evidence (and how long they had it) and did NOTHING!!!
Game over – Four more 4 years. MAGA
IMO they figure it to be an advantage because (A) Biden is eminently capable of f**king up in his rambling replies and (B) it is so blatantly obvious that they are trying to throttle POTUS’ replies and statements.
IMO his replies after every one of Biden’s accusations should be something on the order of ‘well, as usual, everything Vice-President Biden just said is a lie’.
I get what you’re saying. I just think giving some communist moron the ability to mute the PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA is absolutely, completely beyond the pale. ENOUGH.
jahealy: I agree. Muting the President of the United States is absolutely a terrible idea, and goes hand-in-hand with censorship on social media. The President of the United States is the voice of America. The malevolent, anti-American intent is obvious.
Exactly. And yet, we’re still playing ball with them.
PDJT needs to let Joe talk. Joe will forget what he started talking about before he reaches the end of his paragraph. Then PDJT can have a bewildered look on his face, like “Is this guy for real?”
Absolutely. Let Joe talk. Let him dig his own grave, as they say.
Also, I’m okay with the mute button. If the moderator relies on that (and I don’t think the moderator will be able to have any self-control, and will certainly will use it liberally), it will only demonstrate the bias. It will be easy to create a mash up video of the moderator muting and muting and muting Trump, and never Biden. A well-crafted video of that could go viral and be hard for libs to deny their was bias/unfairness (well, they would deny it, but anyone watching the video would be able to clearly see the bias).
I don’t think the President should make a lot of faces, but perform like he did at the last debate. The faces did not go well for Kamala.
That crook will be so hyped on on some drug it will be sad fact….
Far better to avoid insulting Biden – it losers swing voters and independents.
Mike Pence’s approach to Harris’ lies was calm, measured and 100% effective:
“You are entitled to your own opinions, Senator Harris, but not your own facts”.
Her body language becames awkward, and she failed to respond.
Stop with the politeness stuff, ok?
The Democrats never worry about civility and politeness. Somehow it never costs THEM voters.
So just stop it. It glorifies the double standard.
WanderingCon:
I quite agree! Case in point:
The most effective Pence/Harris exchanges were when Pence ignored moderator Page’s admonitions that his time was up, and at one point, there was quite a power struggle going when Page, as the scene was growing ugly, just bowed out, allowing Pence to move in for the kill.
Trump will not have that opportunity. Commies must have seen how the ‘watch dog’ Page let the mountain lion Pence take down his prey against the debate rules.
In conclusion, ‘civility and politeness’ would have earned Pence nothing (your point, WanderingCon).
It must also be said that the greatest unfairness resides in the moderator choosing topics that favor Dems, allowing them to prepare their spiels etc. Both Trump and Pence merely attempted to compensate for that imbalance by ignoring rules: thank God they did and thought on their feet!
I disagree, suburban Moms et. al, want a calm cool and collected President. Those are the comments I hear from people, they think he’s a bully and don’t like his personality. Yes, they are that shallow, and don’t think far enough into policy. This is a debate, not a rally. The President can keep his cool and be tough and firm. He was perfect in those respects last debate with that witch who really tried to get under his skin..
The “suburban moms” and anyone else other than politicos and media propagandists who talk about “style” issues are doing so because this is vague and involves opinion (which everyone is entitled to have — opinions cannot be proved “wrong”). These are people who get by conversationally in this way but actually have so little grasp on facts that they do not want to risk going there.
Kaco-
I’ve heard the same thing in Latino and Indian-American walkaway conversations. As you say, a different register from a rally.
Pence was GREAT. I think even the moderator was impressed with him. Very respectful anyways.
He’ll look “small” if he bows out. He can still get his licks in while looking Presidential and accommodating. Sometimes optics are necessary when dealing with sphincters.
PDJT is the optics guy, so props to him for that. I can’t watch the debates anyway without losing my mind, so I should probably just STHU on this subject.
lol
Because they want Trump to decline the debate.
They never have and never will corner Trump.
I think it’s more likely they know he won’t decline, and they’ll planning to try to make him look like a fool with their precious mute button. I’m not worried about PDJT, just furious with the whole disgusting left side of my country.
Yep
This is why I suggest that the President insist that there be a wall put up between the two candidates such that the audience and interrogator can see both of them, but they cannot see each other.
The mics should have indicators for when they are off or on — that way the effect of not having the mic on will not affect the ‘allowed’ answer, other than by what others have mentioned, facial expressions.
Oh, and someone can make book on how long it takes SLO-Joe to get so frustrated, he decides to ‘take Trump behind the barn’ . . .
Me, I would have two SS men approach the Welker creature and rip out the mute mic. Then I would say that changing the rules in UnAmerican and you many now proceed Ms Welker.
Hell I want the SS to sanitize Trump’s entire stage area to their standards. Come out in hazmat gear. Love the visual? Also, Trump could’ve caught the Chinese virus at the previous debate podium.
I dunno. I think Biden will be medicated well.
I don’t either. They will show lots of disrespect when they cut off the president of the United States by a little peon reporter. He shouldn’t subject himself to it. Dumb idea!! They’ll let this little pipsqueak disrespect our president in front of the whole world and then they’ll all sit back and laugh. Don’t do it! This debate isn’t going to change anybody’s mind at this point, it’s just going to lead to disrespectful sound bites and tweets. They’re setting him up for ridicule.
I think PTrump thinks he get more votes when he’s the underdog, but this isn’t the venue to put yourself in the position for open disdain and disrespect, especially for the office of president of the United States.
Agree with every word you wrote.
All it will do is push the few undecideds into President Trump’s camp. Name me one single thing they have tried that has not backfired? This will too.
Can you imagine if they had muted Obama?
Everyone would have been fired faster than the rodeo clown
I suspect he will take the high road if it becomes obvious he is being throttled, and maybe make a speech about WHY he is being throttled ….whatever, he will embarrass the Moderator who will then be skewered on social media the next day, as it happened for Samantha Guthrie. She was replayed on EVERY channel the next day as the shrew she is. AND she was crucified on Twitter.
Because of this:
https://theconservativetreehouse.com/2020/10/19/inflection-point-president-trump-ill-only-say-this-once/
Even rigged, it’s access to about 80 million viewers.
Read the statement, so Trump can ask Biden about his CCP payments? The MSM won’t.
My take, is the President will reach people who don’t know truth.
You can only be taught tyranny, it isn’t a natural human trait.
He believes he will reach people who would never be reached otherwise.
He is the President of all Americans, whether they like him or not.
That is what courage looks like.
Habakkuk 2:2-4 King James Version
2 I will stand upon my watch, and set me upon the tower, and will watch to see what he will say unto me, and what I shall answer when I am reproved.
2 And the Lord answered me, and said, Write the vision, and make it plain upon tables, that he may run that readeth it.
3 For the vision is yet for an appointed time, but at the end it shall speak, and not lie: though it tarry, wait for it; because it will surely come, it will not tarry.
4 Behold, his soul which is lifted up is not upright in him: but the just shall live by his faith.
I can’t stop reading that tr.
though it tarry wait for it, it will not tarry and it will come.
My Poppa taught me to fish, then he brought me to God.
I was eight years old, and headed to Germany with my Air Force Dad and family.
I had never ‘flown’ in a plane, but one day Poppa and I, were driving down the road,
And we saw a huge plum of the darkest smoke. A twin engine passenger plane had fallen out of the sky. We arrived minutes after the crash. No souls survived. I followed Poppa right into the surreal scene. The smell of fuel and other smells unique to me. Walking around the wreckage, looking to help, everything was black and white, and deadly quiet, but for an crackle or a spark popping. .I had been ‘in’ many planes, my Dad lead a crew young men who maintained B-52’s. Every time a B-52 took off, it rattled the windows of our house. During the Cuban missile crisis, our windows rattled constantly 24/7 for a week.
Real life and my faith, met a couple of days later. I had a problem. For an 8 year old, reason tends to be straight forward, not enough experiences to muddy up, my processing a situation. If my plane crashes while I’m crossing the Atlantic ocean, what I if we crash.
I hadn’t been Baptized yet, in the religion of my church, Baptism was a big deal. I went to my Grand pa and spoke to him, about my concern. He had a big smile and a warm chuckle. Soon after, I was dunked in the warm baptismal tank, instead of the freezing cold Atlantic, in the church where I’m still a member, since that day. Poppa was born 120 years ago. He passed away when he was 65, the same age I am today. He always used to tell me, God was in my back pocket, to watch over my soul, I would never be alone.
I deal with life in a realistic fashion, I’m very worried about our beautiful Republic.
Every day, the closer the election gets, the turmoil between my human instinct and my faith, which generally travel down parallel paths, seem to be moving closer together.
Just do my job and vote, the rest, at this point, is out of my hands.
‘though it tarry, wait for it; because it will surely come, it will not tarry.’
Thanks again tr.
Because both the Debate Commission and the Biden campaign are *trying* to get him to quit the debate. The CPD would suffer an existential crisis if they had to actually address the mess they made of this year’s debates.
Knowing how VSGPDJT has a way of exposing his enemies; expect him to be up to the challenge.
He’s genius in many ways.
Isaiah 56:1
Thus saith the Lord, Keep ye judgment, and do justice: for my salvation is near to come, and my righteousness to be revealed.
He (MrPT) can ‘complain’ about it… but i’m thinking it folds neatly into optimizing plans. Come on, man… Biden- two whole minutes, he and earwig…. trying to act ‘normal’….last go around PT gave him COVER. A reason to fluster, distract and team up with Wallace.
PTrump’s two minutes are his… sound bytes galore. They may be ‘setting the table’ but our glorious president is bringing the cards. His cards.
VPPence laid it up… get a question… answer something better.
EVERYONE not speaking for the sacred two minutes should have their mic muted… no interrupting on Welk’s part!
So long as ‘the rules’ are to one and all, I reckon Mr. Wonderful wipes the floor with that group.
If rules are obviously bent or slanted?
Guess what? Still winning!
Who is negotiating this? I read it is Ronna Romney McDaniel. [Never saw why Trump sings her praises – what have I missed?] We know the GOP Reps on the Debate Commission are all never Trumpists, per Newt. We’ve got biased moderators, subjects selected then changed to favor Biden, proposed mute button easily abused by hidden individual. I don’t agree with those who say the hostile setup is a good plan since it demonstrates the evil media. Trump’s foreign policy achievements have been brilliant and must be communicated. Biden’s foreign corruption must be revealed. How can Trump get this done?
No more debates. Total
Waste of our POTUS’s time and energy. Maybe Joe will get accidentally locked in his basement.
Nope… unfortunately in the reality of foreign relations, these debates are the world’s business. Maybe they’d find Biden ‘easier’ to work with…but these interactions show that Biden ain’t the ticket.. other leaders need to know this just as much as stateside voters.
The man Biden needs to be properly ‘aired’ in real time give and take. For America and for those who wish to figure out just which side that bread is buttered on.
It sucks that they’re moving it away from foreign policy. All the president really needs to do is remind everyone that he’s the first president in decades not to start a new war.
And really start a real peace plan.
Trump should make a “Perfect Phone Call” to Putin asking about corruption payments made to Hunter and associates. Then release the transcript the day before the debate.
Given the facts to date, such a call would be appropriate.
President Trump can use his time as he pleases.
MODERATOR; Mr President, you have purposely killed 220,000 people by holding rallies during Covid. Are you planning on killing that many more?
PT: Twitter, FB, ABC, CBS, NBC, CNN, NYT are all ignoring the bombshell report about Hunter Biden’s laptop that shows massive pay to play by sleepy Joe. It also shows Hunter torturing and raping 11 year old girls while sleepy joe smells their hair. I cede the rest of my time to Sleepy Joe.
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Awesome – Biden actually has to speak now.
Are we sure this is a disadvantage?
Biden will have to ramble and we can still watch POTUS’ facial expressions.
Trump has to be careful about facial expressions. Kamals’a smug smirking didn’t look good at all.
A slightly bemused look would be best for Trump. Perhaps the barest of head shakes.
No smirks – no laughing out loud.
Several looks of bewilderment ending with a genuine WTF look.
Mission accomplished.
In fact, let PDJT look at some reruns showing Tucker Carlson’s facial expressions….priceless.
They ask PDJT a question on say,…global warming.
And PDJT says, “Well global warming isn’t nearly as much of a threats as having VP BIDEN compromised by the Chinese Communist party, and his son potentially blackmailed, due to videos of Hunter having sex with pre-pubescent girls who appear to be asian.”
“Why don’t you ask Joe to DENY the laptop is Hunters?”
Your ideas is better.
I’ll 2nd the motion and move to vote.
Exactly. A good tactic is to take a biased, loaded question and reword it (in his mind), and answer the new question. “Now, Kristen, you asked about global threats….”
I wonder what happens if Welker starts interrupting. I hope Trump stops, wags his finger, and say, “No interruptions – remember?”
And…”I’m reclaiming my time”.
IMO, If they mute the President it will work to Trumps advantage. Everyone will wonder what Trump said and find out anyway. Limiting free speech has never worked that well anyway.
Dutch- good idea!
no… dead, locked in STARE
Pence is the champ at subtle facial expressions and head shakes.
Eric, the more that people see Biden against PT with or without mute buttons is an advantage for President Trump. It’s also another chance for the American people to see the totally encompassing conspiracy to cover for Joe. ‘
I have doubts that the debate will even take place.
It may actually help Trump that Biden has to talk without interruption for two minutes.
He may have his hearing aid “feed,” although istening to the words, remembering them long enough to repeat them, and then repeating them in a coherent manner may be too much for his mental faculties.
Totally agree.
I agree – the optics of showing blatant favoritism to one candidate will speak more loudly in this setting and if the President plays it well, which he will, it will be devastating to Biden. Just the response from the Trump campaign says that they are NOT going to “play nice” and take a fall like both McCain and Romney did (for a price of course but we aren’t allowed to talk about that, are we?).
Every time it is Trump’s turn to talk, he should say “I yield my time to Joe Biden”.
Biden only gets to ramble for 2 minutes at a time! Given his 4 days of rest and all the practicing he will be doing, he may just do fine unfortunately. I hope I’m wrong as everything is stacked against our President!
The two-minute retort is a tell. Biden only lasts for two minutes.
yall…. two minutes with a bug in the ear is terrible. he speaks slowly, strives to hang on… it will be obvious
I bet they will mute Trump during his replies if he strays ‘off topic’.
I suspect you’re right. You are off topic Mr. President and his mic goes quiet. They’ll treat him like a naughty child. Geez, I know my blood will be boiling.
I don’t know how I will even bear to watch this despicably insulting display that will happen. You KNOW everyone will be cheering and celebrating.
We’ll watch it together here in the Treehouse.
They’re hoping he’ll lose his cool.
This was my thought when I first heard this, but it will backfire. If Trump is saying something, and people want to hear it and he is muted they will feel robbed of information. It will be like going to a commercial break during a cliffhanger and never coming back to fill the tension,
THIS is the worrisome part. This would be very dirty on the moderator’s/muter’s part. Otherwise I don’t see a problem.
Trump’s campaign should try to figure out what kind of “hearing aid” Biden has giving him promps, and interrupt the reception. He needs the prompt to reply to Trump’s answers.
Biden will no doubt also have the questions ahead of time, so the next three days are probably going to be spent memorizing his initial answers, too.
Give PDJT a Bluetooth Jammer to carry in his pocket.
I don’t believe he will be able to memorize anything.
He should have a little mini amplifier under his coat and his own additional secret microphone. If they cut his mike, he presses a button he’s holding and boosts his own signal.
Thats when he goes Reganesque on their chump rumps…. he paid for those microphones!
This is a proactive measure to prevent Trump from coming off better… more civil… and more likeable. These people are so biased and predictable.
We knew they would do something to favor biden, at least what it is now known ahead of time,
I sure hope there are changes In the voting system after this and debates the many instances of out right cheating are out of control!
I think debates should be as thus
1. moderator with selection of topics, normal, moderated.(prep ok)
2. townhall style, a certain picks from both sides_ no prep
3. amount of defined topics, moderator bows out.. fireside chat style. candidates poke/prod each others weak points and WE see how they behave under oppostion pressure.
4. Supporter / Detractor lottery… each candidate gets a bowl of supporters.. chooses one, detractors, chooses three… duke it out.. reverse. give a supporter of candidate A’s to opposing candidate,, also, two of the detractor cards.
4 alternative= each candidate writes up ten paper questions, each have their fishbowls o hell. take turns, answer, debate, move on.
Another 4th alternative… true questions sent in, vetted, verified from all of us everywhere. they answer what they can then, make policy statement answers during the remainder of the campaigns like on the twitterbook. let, in time, EVERY DAGGONE QUESTION receive if not an answer then at least assurance it has been read.
the set up doesn’t HAVE to always be as we/them adversarial to the point of forever poisoning politics.
They had to, once the Hunter laptop story broke…
PDJT will be “Silenced”…So help the socialists.
President trump will shine!
Their petty rules and biased moderator will have no effect on the outcome of this debate.
Providence.
They will effect the out of the debate, no doubt about it. But … I don’t think for a minute the stupid debate will effect the outcome of the election.
hmm… people are mainly gonna vote how they’re gonna vote… but these debates make sense… even a few fence sitters… or how about those that just stay home? Something either candidate says could very well get them off their rumpus and vote. Inspiration! Hope! Free everything, lower taxes and the ‘wealthy’ paying their fair share!! /s
I like your comment and approach. Enjoy the show everyone. Providence.
Providence. Like that, thanks.
bverwey
They are no longer stack the deck against President Trump. They are dealing from the bottom of the deck to President Trump.
He’s bringing the cards… all the cards. no worries. MrPT does *better* in adversity anyway!
As long as Kristen Welker doesn’t get the mute button, and someone in the control room (watched over by the Trump campaign) does the muting. it might not be too bad.
By the way, in the Supreme Court, the tech people mute the mikes of any justice who is not speaking. Once a justice does, the mike is switched on. This is because they sometimes lean over and whisper something to person next to them that they don’t want the public to hear, and the whole “hand over the mike” is too risky, as something might leak out.
The person who controls the mute in SCOTUS must have very quick reflexes.
Mute the damn debate; it’s being designed as another Biden infomercial. Hold a rally instead.
The mute button is specifically so they ensure that POTUS can’t ask the question regarding corruption to Biden. I don’t know how he works around that. They don’t want him to bring up the subject and if they can make him look impotent, at the same time, all the better.
Simple. He listens ever so patiently to Welker… nods… smiles… then does what a PT is wont to do, of course within the 2min frame.
dude… thought… what if he plants cutouts of hunter being a crackwhore and thats his ‘seats’ in the audience? his special guests? Heck… what if Mr. computer fixer himself is there? Trump loves using audience realestate to befuddle his opponents. did it to hillary
PDT should live tweet during the debate then
President Trump please bring your own mic. When they ask you a stupid question answer in one sentence and turn your guns on Biden. Then speak about your successful foreign policy accomplishments.
Question to Biden: how much you love your wife and this country? 2 mins start now.
Question to Trump: As per NYT source, you are wife beater so why suburban women vote for you? 2 mins start now.
Mr Biden – you have 30 second for reply.
Ok we need to move next question as we have too many topics to cover.
I would love the Trump Team to have a rep. in the control room. Record everything that goes on in there and use if necessary. Cell phones are marvelous things.
PDJT will be fine.
Mic muted during opening remarks. He can patiently take notes as Biden lies through his teeth.
When mics turned back on for open debate, he can counter punch.
I would like to see the President just go to his phone and post on Twitter whatever he is saying when he gets muted.
YES!!! Best idea! He could even use his phone mike to dictate his tweet (if it has that feature, I don’t tweet). It would be hilarious!!
*** Sundance…see this comment.
I would like to see our President just go to his phone and post on Twitter whatever he is saying when he gets muted.
Trump gets to talk two minutes uninterrupted. Imagine what he can say in those two minutes … in spite of the question from the leftist “moderator.”
I seriously doubt President Trump will be allowed a full 2 minutes without the moderator interrupting him. President Trump can say a lot in 2 minutes.
BSOD: Technical difficulties…stay tuned.
Biden can’t interrupt Trump. But the moderator can … and will… a lot.
He handled the interruptions by Savannah pretty well, didn’t he?
Correct. There will be a running count if mutes by the msm propagandists. Lower amount wins debate.
The moderator also must be muted during the two minute answers.
Anyone else think our President’s voice is loud enough to talk without a microphone?! Microphone schmicrophone!
Bring a bull horn.
I know my voice can fill an auditorium without a microphone and I’ll bet my retirement income that President Trump’s can as well or Better!
If possible POTUS should answer question and then yield his remaining time to Biden to answer same question to throw him off
When it turns to healthcare, TVSGPDJT should look directly at VPB and ask him if he has ever taken medications, treatments, or tests that could be used to treat or diagnose cognitive impairment.
The real problem is that the GOP still doesn’t have the President’s back. They are allowing the corrupt Commission on Presidential Debates to do anything they want to disadvantage Trump and help Democrat Biden. This couldn’t happen without GOP being complicit in these decisions. It’s disgraceful.
I think what hurts me the MOST is that President Trump is fighting this ALL ALONE. Only a handful of people have his back, and you’d still have a couple fingers left over.
“Disgraceful” doesn’t even begin to cover what this is.
Gaby, he is NOT fighting this alone. There was a 35 mile long Trump car parade this weekend. 35 miles of cars with huge flags. That was just one of many.
And that’s just the tip of the iceberg.
What, then, shall we say in response to these things? If God is for us, who can be against us? Roman 8:31
I think the real problem is that for some reason we need a debate commission.
how about a new thing…. an answers of the week kinda thing. he can make this a new policy. scrap the media bots… answer a set amount of questions, good bad or ugly from citizens once a week. fireside chat! anyone can send one in, only so many can be done on the air, but ALL will be answered in some form or fashion. PTrump has a strength in loyalty I reckon he’d like to share that personal aspect of himself with us.
I agree. I think they have become what they replaced back in 1987 (the very liberal and biased League of Women Voters). I think properly managed debates are useful, though maybe not necessary. The Commission as currently devised is not necessary at all.
Here’s what I think should be done. Scrap the Commission altogether. There should be no permanent organization, whatever replaces it. The DNC and RNC should meet and agree on a primary debate schedule, locations, how those debates will be moderated, etc. This should start about 6 months prior to the start of the primaries. Each should equally fund the debates, except perhaps for TV revenue coming in to defray the costs. Otherwise there should be no outside revenue at all. No third parties providing dark money, like apparently what happens with that Commission.
When the two party nominees have been determined, then the DNC, RNC, and both campaigns should meet to determine all this again. Each should have perhaps one quarter say in how everything will be handled, and responsible for one quarter of the funding (minus any TV revenue). Again, no third party (or should I say, fifth party) funding or involvement.
I like what others have suggested as each side providing their own moderator who will be the one asking questions of the other candidate. That seems like it would get rid of having biased moderators. If both sides provide their own, then maybe their bias will cancel each other out?
At the end of the last presidential debate, the group that came together to run the debates goes home and a new group doesn’t get together again until the next primary season approaches. What do all of you thing?
Yeah, where the hell is Ronna McRomney on this???!!
There are GOP members who have President Trump’s back and many are holding onto his coattails to get elected this time around.
Don’t fall for the negativity trolling around or the push polls trying to induce defeat.
Big Red Wave!
It hurts my heart to think of the humiliation they will heap on our President. NO ONE deserves this, Debasing and Humiliating.
Your comment is odd, I have never ever felt that the President was or has been humiliated.
gabytango: Full agreement. Muting the President of the United States is offensive in the extreme.
They can sling… they will never humiliate him, never debase him… those two postures are taken in response to failure/force/loss.
PT doesn’t lose. all downsides are reutilized to get ahead… turn that frown upside down kinda thing.
I truly believe he loves the USA…and I believe he’ll take any abuse to save her. Look loooooong back in interviews and articles…. the man loves this nation like his firstborn. strangest thing. lovely to behold.
Should this great man *ever* choose to be humiliated or debased… it will have been by his part, on purpose, for the good of the Nation he loves on and we live in.
Trump ought to wear a wire and broadcast the entire event in real time.
Let everyone hear everything.
Then compare “real time” with “fake time” in real time.
Talk about a hard hitting commercial or story. Kick them in the nutz. Let it all shine.
Yes yes yes, somebody please tweet cowboy79’s suggestion to our president, to Don Jr, and to the presidential campaign manager.
I like this and any variation on this.
^^^^YES YES!!!
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$50 bucks says the moderator won’t be muted
POTUS should hit biden and the debate commission with both barrels during his opening statement.
Wasn’t it the last debate that they didn’t have opening or closing statements. Maybe I’m wrong.
It would be better if he lays out a concise, “this is what I have done and will do” and “this is what Biden’s policies (that he never wants to tak about” will lead to.
It’s such precious time, he shouldn’t use ti to complain. Be the happy warrior who will fight for America.
President Trump doesn’t need a microphone, we hear him. Do they hear us?
That was AWESOME! What an entrance!! He should do this at every rally!
Censorship is weakness.
Good one, COHoBo! But it is also cruel and effective.
Great line CoHo!
A line worth spread around
Why does the enemy set the rules ? Asking for a friend.
Cold anger is getting hot…………
cuz always… GPTrump really threw a wrench in ALL their reindeer games…. heck, where’s that annual or semiannual catholic roast event…?
This will backfire on the Dems/Media. Trumps mistake in the first debate was not giving Joe space to flail and stumble. Now, he will be forced to stay back and let Joe hang himself with rambling nonsensical responses that will tee up responses for the President.
The problem is they will not allow him to properly respond, especially not allow him to respond in the way he should to Obribe-em’s lies.
If the moderator allows Biden two uninterrupted minutes and then talks over Trump, will anyone be surprised? That hurts Biden more than Trump. The President can hold his own – as will Guthrie. Biden can’t keep a train of thought going more than 3 sentences in a row. He has an inventory of lines that he memorized and strings them together – there is no evidence of cognition in his speech.
Biden will have a hidden ear piece, he just has to parrot what is fed for him to say.
All Trump has to do is say a few TRIGGER WORDS to Joe during each of the replies
That will throw him off balance
Trump should also bring his own podium to the debate
IF allowed or otherwise get one of his helpers to wipe down the podium and microphone with a strong antiseptic cloth
They might try and infect him again with something
On the cloths used should be the Logo “WE KNOW”
Trump: I’ve got a few questions for you Joe
You didn’t want to kill Bin Laden. Why?
You gave plane loads of cash to Iran, even though you knew they were sponsoring terrorism. Why?
You sent blankets to Ukraine when they needed arms. Why?
Benghazi- what was State dept doing there? Where was Obama that night? Why didn’t you send help?
Little Rocket Man- you let him threaten nuclear war without doing anything to slow him down. Why?
You wanted China in the WTO. How has that worked out for the American workers?
Bullhorns and MAGAphones, baby!
Eh, when the timed, muted segment begins, just mosey on away and get a drink of water or make a head call. He can listen over an earpiece while he’s away.
Trump, that is….leave the podium for lengthy segments. Good for keeping a check on temptation to comment (they want him to feel the burn of a muted mike), and it allows him to focus on the dribble being spouted without feeling compelled to rebut it. Also reminds everyone that Biden is talking to no one. Of course, the cameras will feel compelled to pan out and show Trump’s absence. Good for Trump, bad for Biden.
Trump will answer for the absence by saying it’s good for the audience to see with 100% undisturbed focus the points being made by Biden; it’s quite the opposite of a distraction. “Look, if you cared so much about my being there for his speech, you’d have left the mike open…but you didn’t, and you don’t. Now, ask your next question and let’s not waste time here.”
physical movement may be limited covid style?
Here’s a trifecta.
I didn’t realize that when Russian-linguist Nellie Ohr, wife of 4th in FBI admin Bruce Ohr, was contracting with Fusion GPS, for the Clinton campaign, to feed NSA queries to the Steele Dossier, the source material was actually the Biden family corruption.
Hookers, check.
Russian oligarchs, check.
Tax evasion, check.
Skimming from your children, check.
That’s a one way ticket to a muted mic!
This goes both ways right?
President Trump will have 2 mins uninterrupted to rip Joe apart piece by piece.
He can lay out the evidence without interruption, and then go on to the actual question at some other point.
Does the mean the moderator or Biden will respond or address what President Trump puts out there?
No, but their silence will speak volumes.
Will Biden go on record calling all of these revaluations fake? And lies? He could be setting himself up for trouble.
As always I’m sure President Trump has a plan
> This goes both ways right?
Ha!
Have to be able to laugh!
I know I can see that mic getting muted a lot quicker than two mins if he hits the right points.
My first thought when I read this was it would a huge problem and very rude to Trump as there would be someone in the back controlling when he could or couldn’t speak. However, after reading it again, it seems they are only going to mute the microphone for the 2 minute segment. Trump can turn this negative into a positive because Biden will have to actually speak. In the last debate, even though Trump won a merit, he was characterized as the one always interrupting. This in turn would bail Biden out because he could let Trump talk over him. If Trump performs like Pence did against Harris, then the debate will be over in the first 30 minutes.
“I am paying for this microphone.” Ronald Reagan 1980
Would the Trump campaign, or anyone, please try to break through the two Biden family corporations (CELTICCAPRI CORP and GIACOPPA CORP) that paid Joe Biden $3.2 million in 2018, and ask him what that represents? Please? Was that delayed kickbacks from Hunter? What on earth did Joe Biden do in 2018 that was worth $3.2 million? I know I’d like to know. I bet everyone else would like to know as well. I want to hear him dodge it.
See Schedule E below
https://go.joebiden.com/page/-/vpdocs/Biden%202018%20Amended%20Federal.pdf
capri and celtic are names assigned to the Bidens by the Secret Service
https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/chi-obama_code_names_bdnov09-story.html
Here is Crooked Joe’s simple defense, ‘Not even Trump’s FBI or DOJ has brought charges and they had the Lap Top for nearly a year.’
What is President Trump going to say, as he is responsible for the FBI and DOJ?
I want to see all the traitorous criminals lined up in front of the wall that has the names of all the soldiers that died, then hung. I actually prefer the French approach, but hanging will do.
He is going to say he STILL has not gotten a peaceful transition of power from the previous administration in that department due to the Flynn hoax, the Russian hoax, the Ukraine hoax . . .
that’s actually a very fair question, joe.. i’m glad we’re on the same side wanting answers!
POTUS should just move his lips and never say anything.
Another thought: the Trump campaign should insist on a split screen the whole time. Then PDJT should answer his questions in a soft, calm voice, and watch Old Joe nod off. Might even fall over. Maybe drool a bit.
I suggest an actual physical wall between the two candidates.
How long will it take Corn Pop’s nemesis to go running ‘behind the barn’ to show Donald how tough he is . . .?
def split screen! very telling setup, quite informative!
i say biden is through by saturday. loads of evidence hitting the wires. the fact that none of my predictions has come true is merely proof of my farsightedness.
I think this is a good idea as long as they cut off moderator’s mic as well as Biden’s during Trump’s two minutes.
It is not clear to me that this would ensure that President Trump is not interrupted by the moderator herself. So if the debaters can’t interrupt each other but the moderator still can then President Trump will be interrupted every time she doesn’t like a point he is making.
I would only agree to this if it included her.
The moderator is going to bring up the “When did you stop beating your wife” question about “white supremacy,” I’d like to see President Trump address it first, better, nip it in the bud, before she gets a chance to phrase it in her slanted, biased, leftist way.
no… addressing the white supremacy thing is a no go. anytime the left demands you use their interpretation of language they are seeking to trap you one way or another. NEVER give in to the bastardization of communication. Turn it back.. WHAT is WHITE supremacy?
Trump should use Tweeter during the debate.
I love it!
“Hang on Kristen, i have to send a tweet!”
“President Trump has already expressed his opinion of Welker ahead of the debate, describing her as “terrible & unfair, just like most of the Fake News reporters.”
“But I’ll still play the game,” he added. The people know! How’s Steve Scully doing?”
https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1317544121112866822
He never backs down from a fight.
Theres more:
Trump Campaign Manager Fires Off Letter to Debate Commission After they Change Third Debate Topics to Rescue Joe Biden and Ignore President Trump’s Historic Foreign Policy Successes
This is scandalous. The fix is in!
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2020/10/trump-campaign-manager-fires-off-letter-debate-commission-change-third-debate-topics-rescue-joe-biden-ignore-president-trumps-historic-foreign-policy-successes/
Trump should use subliminal techniques and put in words like “Hunter, China, Laptop, Moscow mayor” etc into seemingly innocuous answers to unrelated questions.
I am sure he is smart enough to do it
He should just ‘mouth’ those words when his mic is off . . .
Debate commission is making new rule every day. I heard PTrump team is asking to add foreign policy in exchange something.
Trump should bring a bullhorn.