BREAKING: Another college bails on hosting Presidential debates

[brooklynite]

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That puts two of three debates in "battleground" States.

[Jeebo]

1. Will they stand on a stage in an empty auditorium, six feet apart?

And wearing masks, addressing a line of journalists similarly socially distanced?

I still think there won't be any debates. I'll believe it only when it actually happens.

-- Ron

[lagomorph777]

4. We can have debates electronically. Why the obsession with a physical venue?

That's so last decade.

[Mike 03]

5. Trump won't shut up unless there's a human being sitting in front of him with

a buzzer. Trump would totally ignore the rules if it was just him and a camera in a remote location in the WH.

Besides, he could easy cheat. He could have an earpiece, somebody giving him tips, Kellyanne and Miller writing phrases on a chalkboard behind the camera, etc...

[lagomorph777]

6. You can't cheat if you and your cronies have no idea what the right answer is.

And there will be somebody with a mute button. Trump runs over time, he gets silenced. And he can't sneak up behind Biden.

[Mike 03]

7. ...

[Thekaspervote]

14. There would be monitors on both sides. Shut him up by turning the camera off at the bell

[frazzled]

10. You can't walk around the stage dogging your opponent on Zoom

Like Trump did to Hillary Clinton in that bizarre debate episode of 2016.

[lagomorph777]

11. Yup - no way to do the Frankenstein impression again.

Of course, that'd be a pretty bad idea anyhow, to try that on Biden.

[JustABozoOnThisBus]

13. Yeah, Biden might flatten that "creeping clown" act.

[OrlandoDem2]

2. If they debate we must have real time fact checkers because Trump just lies!

How do you debate ideas and policy with no accepted facts or truth?

[Mike 03]

8. They need to have a rule: If you lie, the clock stops and there's a time out

for a fact correction. Or they deduct time from the candidate that lies.

[ProfessorGAC]

12. My Thought As Well

Realtime fact checking. It's a formal debate not a barroom argument.
Don't make Biden have to spend his time pointing out the lies PINO just told.
Fact check, correct the errors/lies, then Biden can answer the question without wasting time refuting BS.

[Doremus]

3. Oh great for Cleveland... not. I predict riots and general bedlam.

No wonder he's sending his SS troops here.

[Mike 03]

9. DRUG TEST THE CANDIDATES!

It must be so.