If you are going to splice together 400 takes, you can do that much better than they did. The free on Wednesday comment when there is speculation that his office or campaign is involved is stupid.
jrdaustin said:Maybe, but I think the more likely reason is that Biden needs to be able to read prepared responses rather than answer contemporaneously.Gigem314 said:Could be. But I think main reason is because the Biden team is worried about not getting enough enthusiastic Biden supporters to clap for him.Maroon Dawn said:AggieUSMC said:
All seems reasonable except for the no audience thing.
Easier for them to make the deep long edits necessary to make Biden seem coherent
This will be the most scripted debate in history. The lack of an audience is required to pull off the scheme.
Fully agree. That came off as very petty and even boastful as in "I did that."dallasiteinsa02 said:
If you are going to splice together 400 takes, you can do that much better than they did. The free on Wednesday comment when there is speculation that his office or campaign is involved is stupid.
93MarineHorn said:Trump should still jump at this. Bullet point #3 will help Trump keep his damn mouth shut while peepaw is fumbling thru answers.Logos Stick said:
- No audience.
- No RFK Jr.
- No Trump remarks during Biden's answers.
- Only Biden-friendly outlets & anchors can moderate (from CBS, ABC, CNN or Telemundo).
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/15/us/politics/biden-trump-debates.html
Old McDonald said:
prediction: biden will look old and senile. trump will ramble and struggle to stay on topic as has been the case for a decade. partisans on both sides will insist their guy won.
ideally the folks who've been inundated in "biden is senile" messaging the last three years and oblivious to trump's similarly precipitous cognitive decline will have their eyes opened, but i'm not holding my breath.
Old McDonald said:
ideally the folks who've been inundated in "biden is senile" messaging the last three years and oblivious to trump's similarly precipitous cognitive decline will have their eyes opened, but i'm not holding my breath.
Wow! Even when I think you've made the most outlandish statement to date, you continue to surprise with yet again another one. Congratulations!Old McDonald said:
prediction: biden will look old and senile. trump will ramble and struggle to stay on topic as has been the case for a decade. partisans on both sides will insist their guy won.
ideally the folks who've been inundated in "biden is senile" messaging the last three years and oblivious to trump's similarly precipitous cognitive decline will have their eyes opened, but i'm not holding my breath.
BY FAR the most popular presidential candidate of all time. 81 MILLION VOTES. The People's Champ!Max Stonetrail said:
Why would the most powerful man and leader of the free world need terms?
Lol, there is absolutely nothing "similar" about it. Only a completely delusional useful idjit would think otherwise.Old McDonald said:
prediction: biden will look old and senile. trump will ramble and struggle to stay on topic as has been the case for a decade. partisans on both sides will insist their guy won.
ideally the folks who've been inundated in "biden is senile" messaging the last three years and oblivious to trump's similarly precipitous cognitive decline will have their eyes opened, but i'm not holding my breath.
rathAG05 said:93MarineHorn said:Trump should still jump at this. Bullet point #3 will help Trump keep his damn mouth shut while peepaw is fumbling thru answers.Logos Stick said:
- No audience.
- No RFK Jr.
- No Trump remarks during Biden's answers.
- Only Biden-friendly outlets & anchors can moderate (from CBS, ABC, CNN or Telemundo).
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/15/us/politics/biden-trump-debates.html
I doubt he's capable of that, but if he is, he should easily win.
Quote:
The letter by the Biden campaign lays out for the first time the president's terms for giving Mr. Trump what he has openly clamored for: a televised confrontation with a successor Mr. Trump has portrayed, and hopes to reveal, as too feeble to hold the job. In a Truth Social post on Wednesday morning, Mr. Trump quickly agreed to the two dates proposed by the Biden campaign, although it was unclear whether he would agree to Mr. Biden's other terms.
Mr. Biden and his top aides want the debates to start much sooner than the dates proposed by the Commission on Presidential Debates, so voters can see the two candidates side by side well before early voting begins in September. They want the debate to occur inside a TV studio, with microphones that automatically cut off when a speaker's time limit elapses. And they want it to be just the two candidates and the moderator without the raucous in-person audiences that Mr. Trump feeds on and without the participation of Robert F. Kennedy Jr. or other independent or third-party candidates.
This will be a Presidential candidate debate, not a primary debate.Quote:
It should only be hosted, Ms. O'Malley Dillon writes, by broadcast organizations that hosted both a Republican primary debate in 2016 in which Mr. Trump participated and a Democratic primary debate in 2020 in which Mr. Biden participated "so neither campaign can assert that the sponsoring organization is obviously unacceptable."
Networks that meet that mark include CBS News, ABC News, CNN and Telemundo.
And the debate moderators "should be selected by the broadcast host from among their regular personnel, so as to avoid a 'ringer' or partisan," Ms. O'Malley Dillon adds.
Rigged... I think you mistyped your comment.chris1515 said:
Biden should NOT do this.
At this point, I think he has the election won. Don't do anything to blow it.
I swear both these guys are in a game of one upmanship to see who can screw things up the most in this campaign.
aggiehawg said:
Will there be any foreign policy questions?
Rockdoc said:
Who is dumb enough to think the networks chosen by Biden won't stack the deck against Trump? Remember when Donna Brazil forked over the questions in advance? Trump needs to be careful and have some input here.
Logos Stick said:
- No audience.
- No RFK Jr.
- No Trump remarks during Biden's answers.
- Only Biden-friendly outlets & anchors can moderate (from CBS, ABC, CNN or Telemundo).
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/15/us/politics/biden-trump-debates.html
That's the most reasonable of them all. An audience is mostly an annoying distraction. A live broadcast without an audience is ideal. It's the rest that I take issue with (opposition-controlled moderation, excluding the 3rd party candidate, etc.).AggieUSMC said:
All seems reasonable except for the no audience thing.
BoydCrowder13 said:
Trump hurt himself bigot in 2020 with the interruptions. The debates were a wasted opportunity.
He can easily beat Biden if he just lets the guy talk and then bash him when it's his turn.
Hence the no audience.No Spin Ag said:BoydCrowder13 said:
Trump hurt himself bigot in 2020 with the interruptions. The debates were a wasted opportunity.
He can easily beat Biden if he just lets the guy talk and then bash him when it's his turn.
This to infinity. Any debate will be Biden's to lose, and if Trump can stay focused, it'll be a cakewalk.