No audience, microphones cut to avoid intrusion: CNN, which will host Thursday’s first presidential debate between Joe Biden and Donald Trump, wants to avoid the chaos of the earlier fight in 2020, which has a hard impact on this inevitable meeting. to predict.
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Insults, insults and outgoing President Donald Trump continued to interrupt his challenger, Joe Biden, asking, “Are you going to shut up, man?” Concludes: CNN hopes to avoid the cacophony that dominated the first televised fight. Previous presidential election. First, the debate takes place without an audience at the channel’s studios in Atlanta from 9:00pm (01:00 GMT on Friday). After all, Joe Biden’s microphone cuts out when Donald Trump speaks.
The two oldest candidates in American history — Biden at 81, Trump at 78 — will stand behind a lectern for 90 minutes.
CNN promises that its two moderators, Jake Tapper and Dana Bash, will use all the tools at their disposal to facilitate talk time and ensure civilized debate.
Joe Biden won a coin toss that allowed him to choose which side of the podium he wanted to stand on or whether he wanted to speak first or second during closing statements. The outgoing president chose to stand to the right of the screen, leaving Donald Trump the option to intervene last and end the debate.
CNN does not specify what topics will be discussed and does not plan real-time fact-checking.
Repeating without evidence that the 2020 election was stolen from him “One of the problems with the debate with Donald Trump is that moderators can’t fact-check in real time, and it’s not, and that’s fine. “The danger is that instead of informing, a debate can amplify misinformation,” she adds.
Joe Biden and Donald Trump won’t have teleprompters or little made-up cards, but they’ll be given something to take notes on. They can’t talk to their teams during the two commercial breaks.
Both candidates turned their backs on the Commission on Presidential Debates, an independent organization that relies on CNN news. Faced with the challenge of public service, Warner Bros. Group Channel. However, Discovery allowed its competitors to air simulcasts, with the CNN logo and without extraneous comments.
This means that Fox News regulars can stay on the channel of choice for conservatives. Fox News plans to air two hours ahead of the debate, which its editors, Jesse Waters and Sean Hannity, have consistently attacked CNN for being “anti-Trump” by its supporters.
The second has already described Jack Tapper as a “far-left activist hiding behind a journalistic mask”.
An important, but not essential, debate in a US presidential campaign is widely followed: 84 million viewers for the first fight between Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump, a record, and 73 million for the first Biden-Trump debate in 2020.
But this is the first time that a debate has been organized so early, more than four months before the election, even though the candidates have not been officially nominated by their parties. “The danger is that the American public doesn’t pay much attention to the news in the summer,” underlines Kathleen Hall Jamieson.
“Usually, presidential debates don’t sway enough votes to decide the outcome of an election. But, as the elections approach, it may be this time, they can play an important role,” he adds.
A second debate is scheduled on ABC on September 10, two months before the election.
