Biden and Trump campaigns agreed to mic muting, podiums among rules for upcoming CNN debate | CNN Politics

The 90-minute debate will include two commercial breaks, according to the network, and campaign staff may not interact with their candidate during that time.

Both candidates agreed to appear at a uniform podium, and their podium positions will be determined by a coin flip.

Microphones will be muted throughout the debate except for the candidate whose turn it is to speak. While no props or pre-written notes will be allowed on the stage, candidates will be given a pen, a pad of paper and a bottle of water.

Default_Defect,
@Default_Defect@midwest.social avatar

Hopefully the mics, while muted, will still be recording audio so they can release Trump loudly shitting his pants when he thinks no one can hear.

Dkarma,

I’m so glad your mind works this way so mine doesn’t have to.

The hero we need.

demizerone,

It would be hilarious if they both shit their diapers at the same time.

tenchiken,

Not if… When.

fubarx,

At this point, do they really need to be in the same room?

Semi_Hemi_Demigod,
@Semi_Hemi_Demigod@lemmy.world avatar

Zoom debates! I can use my bingo card from work!

Cornpop,

This is going to be a train wreck. Two old senile men that belong in a nursing home yelling at each other.

user1234,

Trump probably thinks mic muting means telling his former vice president to shut up.

Badeendje,
@Badeendje@lemmy.world avatar

Rofl

8ender,

Going to watch to see if I can guess how many drugs they’ll prop up Trump with. I’m going to guess a lot

GBU_28, (edited )

I’m pro Biden in this lineup, but you know that dude is gonna have a “nap” and an “ice cream cone” before the debate too lol

Edit lol I’m not sure if the downvotes are from trump fans or Biden fans. Clearly senior age politicians have carefully managed drug cocktails for focus and energy. This isn’t a secret, or a problem. If you can’t take a simple joke about ice cream vs meds, you should reevaluate your position on celebrities.

Crowfiend,

But the guy that slept through his own criminal trial will definitely not need a nap before/during the debate.

/s just in case

GBU_28,

Obviously. He’s gonna be super hopped up on diet coke and diet pills. And hamberders.

Cryophilia,

You gotta be a teenager or something if you’re too cool for ice cream and naps

Ice cream and a nap sounds awesome

GBU_28,

Obviously not the joke I was making. Everyone likes those things.

They would also love that presidential grade focus drug cocktail

LarryTheMatador,

We still pretending donald will debate?

CasualPenguin,

I cannot possibly fathom a world in which orange incontinence personified shows up understanding he can be muted.

I can only imagine either the fact that they will be muted is being overstated to us, or that he doesnt understand and will be charging his diaper ass across the stage the second that he realizes people can no longer hear him.

tacosanonymous,

He doesn’t need to prove anything to anyone. He can just lie about everything. I’m sure he’ll just call it censorship and Fox News will say Biden will come for “conservatives” next.

jballs,
@jballs@sh.itjust.works avatar

Are commercial breaks standard during debates? I can’t recall a commercial break in the last 24 years of debates, but maybe that’s just me.

givesomefucks,

Nope.

This is the first year the parties boycotted the nopartisian comitte’s debates and instead are holding their own with CNN as the host

Part of that deal, involves allowing ads.

So CNN makes a bunch of money, the parties get influence over the debate, the questions being asked, and who can attend (only the two parties)

Commercials are the most obvious part, but not the most impactful. This is dystopian as fuck and everyone seems to just be ok with it.

freebread,

I’m not ok with it but I wasn’t paying attention enough to make sense of it until reading your comment. I feel like people would be more upset if they realized what is lost.

givesomefucks,

people would be more upset if they realized what is lost.

Bruh this is nothing.

The DNC took away NH’s delegates because they wouldn’t violate state law by moving their primary.

Just a few years after their lawyers said that primary’s can be rigged because they’re non binding.

And people are just fucking going with it like it doesn’t matter because it was going to be Biden anyways.

We’re getting frog boiled and people just get pissed when it’s brought up. I honestly don’t know why people haven’t been rioting

Cryophilia,

Oh no, the US is in danger of losing their massively influential 3rd parties!

Fedizen,

I can’t wait to hear about sharks and boats

blazera,
@blazera@lemmy.world avatar

Mildly surprised theyve agreed to a debate at all.

Good_morning,

Honestly happy with the mic muting, wished it was a thing back then. But what’s even the point of this debate, who is going to watch it with bated breath struggling to decide?

morphballganon,

The goal is not to learn information about who the candidates already are. We already know who they are. The goal is to see them react to each other and have the more vitriolic candidate self-destruct on TV.

absentbird,
@absentbird@lemm.ee avatar

Also so people can assess the vigor and wit of two candidates that each side has been calling decrepit and cognitively impaired.

AFKBRBChocolate,

Each party has the goal of getting the other side to say something that will be a useful campaign sound bite. Maybe that will cause then to tone things down.

Who am I kidding, Trump will go over the top as usual trying to rile Biden.

cosmicrookie,
@cosmicrookie@lemmy.world avatar

They are doing it for the memes

slickgoat,

I’ll be watching with baited breath alright. It will be a show. One of them might actually die on stage. That’s not even the least spectacular thing that could happen.

FluffyPotato,

I’m not American and don’t much care about American politics but having a debate between 2 people both so old they can actually die on stage while age cooked their brains at least 5 years ago is a spectacle I’m not missing.

Semi_Hemi_Demigod,
@Semi_Hemi_Demigod@lemmy.world avatar

Much like most cultural events, I’ll just wait for the funniest clips to be posted to YouTube

homesweethomeMrL,

Big time PDSD

DrSleepless,

Big time Paul Dano Sound Delivery?

homesweethomeMrL,

Post Debate Stress Disorder

After 2016 it’s just been a lot of night terrors, occasional screaming bouts, random sweating.

Suffice to say, I’m really not looking forward to not one but two more of these exercises in horrifying pointlessness.

ThePantser,
@ThePantser@lemmy.world avatar

With a pad and a pen and a bottle of water. All this, I seek, I find I push the envelope to the line Make it, break it, take it Until I’m overrated!

LEDZeppelin,

Trump campaign will be the first one to complain about mic muting. I bet my ass on that.

dhork,

He’s gonna complain that he never agreed to it and use it as an excuse to back out

Wrench,

Trump is just going to be shouting while Biden talks anyway. So the viewer will see Biden distracted and stuttering because half his attention will be on trying to ignore Trump, but the viewer will not hear it, beyond maybe a little background noise that’s picked up on Bidens mic.

This is Trump’s strategy. He has done it before. They really need sound proof booths too.

KevonLooney,

Did you forget that Biden was in the Senate for decades? All they do is make speeches 99% of the time they are in the chamber.

Notice how Trump is only good in front of a friendly crowd. Biden has spoken publicly and privately in front of people who dislike him for most of his life. Biden is practicing now, and I suspect he will make Trump look like a fool.

Ersatz86, (edited )

Biden is practicing now, and I suspect he will make Trump look like oblige Trump’s mission to (further) substantiate himself a fool.

capt_wolf,
@capt_wolf@lemmy.world avatar

“They wouldn’t even let me talk! How am I supposed to debate when I can’t talk all the time? Biden got to talk when it was his turn, but they wouldn’t let me get a word in edgewise while he was talking to tell him how wrong he is… Also, what am I supposed to do with a pen and paper? Who uses a pen and paper in this day and age? Am I supposed to write a letter? Why can’t I have my phone to tweet live about how unfairly I’m being treated!? Literally the most rigged, one-sided debate in ALL of history! And I’d know! I’ve been warning everyone this whole time they’ll rig things from the start! Just like they RIGGED THE LAST ELECTION!!!”

ShellMonkey, (edited )
@ShellMonkey@lemmy.socdojo.com avatar

Anyone who thinks muting a mic is going to keep things civil and with any level of decorum hasn’t been paying attention.

FuglyDuck,
@FuglyDuck@lemmy.world avatar

they should put them in a sound proof box, pipe in the what the other guy is saying when it’s not their turn, and mute the off-mic in the broadcast… but give us subtitles so we can still read what they’re saying.

gibmiser,

Gun rigged to a sound meter during opponents time. Better pray you don’t have to sneeze.

toiletobserver,

I like the cut of your jib

RagingSnarkasm,

I admire the hitch you used to tie on your sheets.

Snowpix,
@Snowpix@lemmy.ca avatar

It’s the American way!

mozz,
@mozz@mbin.grits.dev avatar

Honestly, it's perfect. I don't know if you've ever seen a heated debate where if someone is an asshole their mic gets muted, and you can still faintly hear them yelling in the background through other people's mics while conversation continues among the people whose mics are still active. Or, where they try to barge their way over and grab some other mic that's still active. I've observed both of these, and they are exactly what we need right now.

I don't for a second imagine that this debate will remain civil or with any level of decorum, if it does happen, whatever the rules are. But the optics that could ensue from mic muting are exactly what our political discourse needs right now. Like, completely. To a T.

ShellMonkey,
@ShellMonkey@lemmy.socdojo.com avatar

I might just be too cynical at this point. It’d be fun to see, but at this point I suspect that any attempt to keep Trump, and I won’t pretend to think it’s about anyone but him really given the history, in check will be brushed off as ‘the biased,unfair moderators are just trying to silence him’ rather than convincing any of his followers he might be a bit too volatile for public office.

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