In a televised discussion in Nashville, Tennessee, each candidate will have two minutes of uninterrupted time at the beginning of each thematic block. Each of the six blocks should last fifteen minutes.
“The only person who will work the microphone during these two minutes will be the candidate whose time is allotted according to the rules,” said the organizers of the Presidential Debate Commission (CPD).
After a two-minute speech by each of the candidates, the debate will be free, the microphones will remain on. However, the interruption of the opponent will be included in the total time reserved for each of the participants in the debate, CPD warned. In total, Trump and Biden will debate for 90 minutes.
Both Trump and Biden have a problem turning off the microphone
The organizers admitted that neither Trump’s team nor the team of former Vice President Biden was completely satisfied with the solution. “But we are confident that these events strike the right balance and are in the interests of the American people for whom these debates are being held,” the CPD added.
The first presidential debate before the November elections, which took place at the end of September, was assessed by the American media as chaotic. In it, President Trump kept jumping to his juice and moderator Chris Wallace. A small part of the criticism after the duel was reaped by Biden, who described the head of the White House as a racist, liar and the worst president in history.
The second debate, scheduled for October 15, was scheduled for video after Trump became infected with coronavirus. However, the president rejected such a format and in the end the duel was completely canceled. Instead, both Trump and Biden appeared on parallel talk shows.
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Trump: It’s very unfair
“I will attend, I just think it’s very unfair,” Trump told reporters in response to the announced measures for the latest debate. According to him, it is also unfair that “we will have a moderator again who is completely biased.”
Thursday’s presidential debate will be moderated by Kristen Welker, Washington’s NBC reporter. Trump’s campaign also expressed dissatisfaction with the choice of topics to be debated. According to her, they are more comfortable with Biden. The Reuters agency said that the head of the White House wanted to avoid the discussion about the covid-19 pandemic, which, according to surveys, voters consider to be one of the most important pre-election topics.
More than 30 million people have already voted in the US presidential election on November 3, according to a University of Florida project. This is about a fifth of all voters in the 2016 election. Voters took advantage of early or correspondence voting.
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