Good.... protects the health of candidates, moderator and staff... and will allow for more effective moderation to prevent last week's horrific display by trump...
Talking out of turn appears to be a Trump Campaign debate strategy. I posit that Trump traded being forced into producing two negatives CV-19 tests with losing control of the mic.
And of course, spoiled brat-in-chief doesn't want to do a virtual debate... he won't be happy unless he can bully his way into infecting everyone... Utter childlike "official statement"... "and everyone knows it".
the third Nixon-Kennedy debate was remote, with Nixon in Los Angeles and Kennedy in New York. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_presidential_debates
If Trump would rather repeat the circus show of the last “debate” and not have a real debate that he can’t disrupt with his clown antics, the American people don’t need to oblige him. Let him stew in isolation in the White House. The Debate Commission should have made all debates virtual from the beginning, including the VP ones. The only way to make them in person is to put the candidates in sound proof glass boxes. Maybe Trump would enjoy that game show feel.
There have been many cases where patients, feeling much better, were still shedding the virus and testing positive weeks after their severe symptoms subsidded. It was a good call for them to take no chances in this case, and exclude in-person debating. ALL of us have had to shift our entire professional careers virtual. Kids have to go to school virtually. If Trump.... WHILE HE IS SHEDDING THE VIRUS cannot accept the small sacrifice of being virtual, then he is showing that he actually doesn't want to debate Biden again which is telling. Trump needed two more debates much more than Joe did. He has to find a way to pull away voters from Biden. At this point his only hope is for a Comey letter type of revelation that hurts Biden with Independents.... and that cannot happen because there is NOBODY in the American Government with the credibility that Comey had to investigate his own bosses successor. At this point even a Durham indictment of Biden himself not only would not cause the political damage that the Comey letter did to Hillary, but might actually backfire on Trump because it would seem so incredibly 3rd world dictatorial, and most independents would view the indictment as a way of stealing the election in the way a Putin or Xi would.
This is working out for Biden. Trump backs out of the debate not Biden so any argument that Biden is afraid of debating Trump goes out the window. The Trump campaign issues a juvenile statement and plans on having a rally instead where they might infect who knows how many. The contrast is going to be very stark and in Biden's favor..
Can any conservative poster on this board explain why a virtual debate is such a big deal? Shouldn’t they be excited to get their message out? @generalthade_03 @Astrodome @dachuda86
Virtual debate would be fine by me. Then the mod could mute them old fools. I wish the debates weren't so "made for TV". Set out a 4 hour block and let them have time to talk.
They got jokes? That's why he is losing so bad because his staff thinks **** like this is cute but can't get the phone away from the toddler in chief. Even at my age people continue to amaze me.
Well that was predictable. I told my wife this morning, "I'm sure we will hear from Trump soon that he is backing out".
The claim is that a virtual format allows the moderator and Biden, who are naturally in cahoots, to more easily control the outcome to favor Biden. Actual reason: Trump cannot win by articulating coherent ideas to the public. His only hope is to win through disruption (as he tried to do in debate #1) or intimidation (unlikely to work on Biden). Neither of which he can do in a virtual format. So fallback to the strategy of complaining about how unfair the entire election process is to him -- you know, things like making it easier for people to vote without endangering themselves, and allowing a Presidential debate to take place without candidates continually disrupting each other.
