Biden and Trump Agree to CNN Debate Rules, Including Mic Muting

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As the first presidential debate of the 2024 election cycle approaches, CNN has announced that both President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump have agreed to new debate rules designed to ensure a more orderly and respectful discussion. The debate, hosted by CNN's Jake Tapper and Dana Bash, will take place in Atlanta, Georgia, on June 27.

 

The new rules include several measures aimed at maintaining decorum and fairness. Both candidates will stand at uniform podiums, with their positions determined by a coin flip. To prevent interruptions and maintain the flow of the debate, microphones will be muted except when it is the respective candidate's turn to speak. Tapper and Bash will have the authority to enforce timing and ensure a civilized discussion using all tools at their disposal.

 

The debate is scheduled to last 90 minutes and will include two commercial breaks. During these breaks, campaign staff will not be allowed to interact with their candidates. Each candidate will be provided with a pen, a pad of paper, and a water bottle, but they will not be allowed to bring any prewritten notes onto the stage. In a departure from past debates, there will be no studio audience present.

 

This debate marks the first of two agreed-upon encounters between Biden and Trump ahead of the 2024 election. The agreement to debate twice was reached in mid-May, representing the first time the two have faced each other since the contentious 2020 debate. Trump chose to skip the GOP primary debates this cycle in favor of campaign events, while Biden released a campaign video challenging Trump to meet for debates in June and September. Trump accepted the challenge, and the dates were promptly set.

 

The timing of the June debate is notably early in the general election calendar. The second debate is scheduled for September 10 and will be hosted by ABC. The Biden campaign proposed the June date to accommodate the president's return from the Group of Seven summit in Europe and the conclusion of Trump’s hush money trial.

 

The 2020 debate between Biden and Trump was infamous for its chaotic atmosphere, with frequent interruptions and personal insults exchanged between the candidates. At one point, Biden famously asked Trump, "Will you shut up, man?" This year's debate rules are a direct response to the disorder of their previous encounter, aiming to provide a more structured and substantive exchange.

 

As the date approaches, anticipation builds for what promises to be a significant moment in the 2024 election cycle. Both candidates have expressed their readiness to engage in a direct comparison of their visions for the future of the United States. The debate will offer voters an early opportunity to evaluate their options as the race intensifies.

 

Credit: CNN 2024-06-18

 

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[Tug]

Excellent this will force trump to behave like an adult Biden is going to disembowel him!

[nauseus]

1 hour ago, Tug said:

Excellent this will force trump to behave like an adult Biden is going to disembowel him!

 

Talking of bowels, is there a half-time break so Joe can get a pamper change?

[Tug]

18 minutes ago, nauseus said:

 

Talking of bowels, is there a half-time break so Joe can get a pamper change?

Naa I think it’s trump that’s gonna have the squirt's he’s going to have to have a conversation with someone who knows things,really knows not just blabing to Jin up division like trump.facts and logic aren’t trump’s friends 

[ThaiFelix]

The Tin Man and the pathological liar, one more misfit and it could be the Marx Brothers all over again!  What a choice to make lol!

[thaipo7]

Too bad Biden will be spewing his lies and when Trump wants to refute him, he will be cut off.  Two of the worst Marxist Democrats on Biden's side and the control the mics.  I am sure Biden will not know the questions before hand.  Remember Hillary and Donna Brazile?  The do repeat what works and finetune it you know.  Like walking into a pit of vipers.  Biden should have to wear a lie detector belt or what ever it is that they used.  He should be checked for mental enhancing drugs that will be pumped into him.  But without his pockets full of cue cards, or a wire plugged into his ear, it should be interesting.  We know the results already.  Biden won the first debate.  

 

Where I live, is a political ad on TV by Biden against Trump.  Only the first two words are correct.  The two words are Midnight tweets.  WTF does this have to do with securing the border, not letting in terrorists, inflation, illegal paying off of student loans, funding Iran making sure the get the nuclear bomb, putting their foot on the neck of Israel NOT to take out Hamas, letting Hamas demonstrators on college campuses who are not even going to school there, and a thousand or BS things going on in America.  Wonder if Trump will have an American flag behind him?  What will Biden have?  Gay Pride flag, Hamas Flag?  He need the both groups to vote for him.  The river to the sea crowd in MI and Deabornastan.

[pomchop]

 

 

Trump’s false or misleading claims total 30,573 over 4 years

 

never let the facts get in the way of a right wing rant.....Biden should have to wear a lie detector belt or what ever it is that they used.  He should be checked for mental enhancing drugs that will be pumped into him.  But without his pockets full of cue cards, or a wire plugged into his ear, it should be interesting.  We know the results already.  Biden won the first debate.  

[Walker88]

What this debate will do is showcase the cognitive decline of the felon as well as show how absolutely weird he has become as his brain fizzles and deteriorates and turns to mush.

 

Right wing media has spent lots of time splicing together every gaffe or stutter of Biden, creating a false impression of his cognitive state. One could do the same to Taylor Swift and make her look as if she has dementia. It's editing vs reality.

 

If one watches the speech Biden delivered in Normandy on 6 June, two things are apparent. He has great focus and can still deliver, whether those are his words or the words of a speechwriter. Also, Biden's entire speech was about honoring the sacrifice of those who fought and praising/thanking them for what they did. The felon is totally incapable of giving credit to others nor honoring the great sacrifice others have made. For the felon, all glory, honor and credit goes to him for everything. Even his spawn suffer from the same, as the second son posted on Memorial Day last month of the "great sacrifice" (sic) his Never Served family has made for the US. If not for those bone spurs, eh?

 

While editing to disparage Biden, right wing media also selectively edits to hide all of the felon's gaffes. They ignored the 'sinking electric boat and shark' idiocy, as well as not reminding us how great the felon thinks Hannibal Lecter was.

 

There will be no hiding in the debate, no real time editing. Sharks and Hannibal Lecter will be there for all the world to see....live. There will also be instant fact checking, so the usual lies and hyperbole spewing from the felon's frothing maw will be laid bare instantly for the absurdity that they are.

 

Neither man is what they once were, but the felon has been able to hide, because his base only watches a highly edited version of his declining grasp of reality.

 

The felon is going to look bad. In fact, his team is likely well aware of how bad he is going to look, so it will come as no surprise if the felon cancels out between now and debate day. Maybe the felon will say his son is graduating from school again and he has to attend, or perhaps cite the gag order of Judge Merchan and say if he can't say what he wants, he won't play.

[Skeptic7]

45 minutes ago, nauseus said:

 

Talking of bowels, is there a half-time break so Joe can get a pamper change?

Weak and nonsensical. Of course, par for Trump and his cult. That's all you've got. Never any substance or reality...only lies, diversions, distractions and huge, sloppy piles of 🐎💩

[spidermike007]

The mic muting is going to put Trump way outside of his game, and it's going to eliminate his most popular tactic which is interruption and showing tremendous lack of respect for his opponent. This is a very clever tactic and one which I think will level the playing field.

 

Trump is going to lose this debate hands down, he doesn't have any policy, he's not intelligent, and he his semi-senility is causing a tremendous amount of rambling these days, which is totally incoherent. 

[nauseus]

7 minutes ago, Skeptic7 said:

Weak and nonsensical. Of course, par for Trump and his cult. That's all you've got. Never any substance or reality...only lies, diversions, distractions and huge, sloppy piles of 🐎💩

 

You need to talk to Slidin Biden about those sloppy piles.

[JonnyF]

Wow.

 

I wonder if CNN will also dub some intelligent comments for Biden while he is muted. To make him sound semi literate. Because with CNN's bias this contest is essentially going to be like a boxing match where the referee ties one arm behind the back of one guy and then promptly joins the other in the attack.  

 

And Trump will still probably win. 

[neeray]

1 hour ago, nauseus said:

 

Talking of bowels, is there a half-time break so Joe can get a pamper change?

I think you've got the wrong elder. It's Trump who depends on Depends.

[LosLobo]

14 minutes ago, JonnyF said:

Wow.

 

I wonder if CNN will also dub some intelligent comments for Biden while he is muted. To make him sound semi literate. Because with CNN's bias this contest is essentially going to be like a boxing match where the referee ties one arm behind the back of one guy and then promptly joins the other in the attack.  

 

And Trump will still probably win. 

Amazing how Watters and Hannity missed this in their usual full show tirade on Biden gaffes.

 

For your information.....

Trump forgets the name of his White House doctor - seconds after challenging Biden to a cognitive test | The Independent
 

[Purdey]

If the microphone for one is turned off while the other is speaking, will the open mic pick up background noise?I don't think Donnie will stop ranting.

[Tug]

2 minutes ago, Purdey said:

If the microphone for one is turned off while the other is speaking, will the open mic pick up background noise?I don't think Donnie will stop ranting.

I wouldn’t worry I’m sure a top notch team of professionals will be setting it up hey heres a thought wouldent it be funny to see trump ranting with no sound and doing the accordion move with the little nubbies lmao 😜 

[neeray]

Mic muting may help a bit but Trump will still be hollering nonsensical gibberish when Biden is speaking with his open mic. Trump thrives on bullying and disrespectful over-talk when debating. But it will be fun to listen to his answers when he is asked a question on policy and he starts talking about sharks and electric boats, or may talk about how rich he is.

[impulse]

39 minutes ago, JonnyF said:

Wow.

 

I wonder if CNN will also dub some intelligent comments for Biden while he is muted. To make him sound semi literate. Because with CNN's bias this contest is essentially going to be like a boxing match where the referee ties one arm behind the back of one guy and then promptly joins the other in the attack.  

 

And Trump will still probably win. 

 

My bet is that CNN will provide the questions in advance to Team Biden on the sly, and either not provide them to Trump, or provide false questions.  

 

If, as some have reported, there will be on-the-spot fact checks, I'd bet that the fact checks will be slanted as well.  

 

If this was meant to be fair, CNN could host the debate and allow someone else to formulate and safeguard the questions.  Fox, maybe.

 

Not that any of that will save Biden, who's probably going to be replaced at the DNC convention.

 

On a wingnut conspiracy note, Google "Biden clone Mission Impossible mask".  Lots of folks don't think it'll even be Biden at the debate.  

 

 

[EVENKEEL]

1 hour ago, nauseus said:

 

You need to talk to Slidin Biden about those sloppy piles.

He blames it on his dog.

[impulse]

21 minutes ago, EVENKEEL said:

1 hour ago, nauseus said:

 

You need to talk to Slidin Biden about those sloppy piles.

He blames it on his dog.

 

Why?  Did they find any Secret Service cufflinks in the poop?

 

[LosLobo]

44 minutes ago, impulse said:

 

My bet is that CNN.......

 

On a wingnut conspiracy note, Google "Biden clone Mission Impossible mask".  Lots of folks don't think it'll even be Biden at the debate.  

 

I suggest your opening paragraph on this and all of your other posts should have been prefaced with your comment 'on a wingnut conspiracy note' and not just this last paragraph.

 

Edited June 18 by LosLobo

[pomchop]

2 hours ago, JonnyF said:

Wow.

 

I wonder if CNN will also dub some intelligent comments for Biden while he is muted. To make him sound semi literate. Because with CNN's bias this contest is essentially going to be like a boxing match where the referee ties one arm behind the back of one guy and then promptly joins the other in the attack.  

 

And Trump will still probably win. 

Kool aide 1/2 price.  Act now.

[pomchop]

1 hour ago, impulse said:

 

My bet is that CNN will provide the questions in advance to Team Biden on the sly, and either not provide them to Trump, or provide false questions.  

 

If, as some have reported, there will be on-the-spot fact checks, I'd bet that the fact checks will be slanted as well.  

 

If this was meant to be fair, CNN could host the debate and allow someone else to formulate and safeguard the questions.  Fox, maybe.

 

Not that any of that will save Biden, who's probably going to be replaced at the DNC convention.

 

On a wingnut conspiracy note, Google "Biden clone Mission Impossible mask".  Lots of folks don't think it'll even be Biden at the debate.  

 

 

here we go down the rabbit hole of conspiracy theories that CNN will give biden answers....that fits well with the BIG STEAL lie as total BS that right wing has blabbed for almost 4 years....evidence?  NONE.

 

So Biden will not really even be there but some kind of mystery clone perhaps fed the anwers via laser beams from Venezeula.....of course if "lots of folks" say it why it must be true....either that or "lots of folks" are completly totally delusional...."lots of folks" are dumb as a bucket of mud.

 

 

[JonnyF]

4 minutes ago, pomchop said:

Kool aide 1/2 price.  Act now.

 

Not bad advice for Biden. I'm not sure his aides are that cool but he's certainly going to need to a lot of them in the coming months given his rapidly declining mental congnition. 

[gargamon]

1 hour ago, Tug said:

doing the accordion move

Is that the one where Trump looks like he's jacking off two guys?

[John Drake]

The debate will hurt Trump more than Biden. Until now, paradoxically, Trump has managed to slide by because of the court cases. Judges did him a favor by gagging him, because the more he talks and shows himself, the more people are reminded of what an imbecile he is. The debate will re-expose him. At this point, Biden looks so helpless that the only thing that could make him look worse would be the need for him to be taken off the stage in a gurney. 

[John Drake]

4 hours ago, thaipo7 said:

Too bad Biden will be spewing his lies and when Trump wants to refute him, he will be cut off.  Two of the worst Marxist Democrats on Biden's side and the control the mics.  I am sure Biden will not know the questions before hand.  Remember Hillary and Donna Brazile?  The do repeat what works and finetune it you know.  Like walking into a pit of vipers.  Biden should have to wear a lie detector belt or what ever it is that they used.  He should be checked for mental enhancing drugs that will be pumped into him.  But without his pockets full of cue cards, or a wire plugged into his ear, it should be interesting.  We know the results already.  Biden won the first debate.  

 

Seems to be your argument that Trump has made yet another mistake by accepting the terms of the debate. Typical of him. He folds when the pressure gets to him.

[John Drake]

I wonder if Trump will try the Al Gore maneuver?  https://www.c-span.org/video/?c4542475/al-gore-intimidate-george-bush

[spidermike007]

3 hours ago, nauseus said:

 

You need to talk to Slidin Biden about those sloppy piles.

Very typical of a Trump devotee to engage in name calling. We always have a choice. Clvility or low class dishonor. Your Master always chooses the latter. 

Edited June 18 by spidermike007

[spidermike007]

The US should have both term limits and age limits. Once you hit 70, you are out as a candidate of any national office. And two terms for congress or the senate. It would be a game changer.