The 90-minute debate will include two commercial breaks, according to the network, and campaign staff may not interact with their candidate during that time.

Both candidates agreed to appear at a uniform podium, and their podium positions will be determined by a coin flip.

Microphones will be muted throughout the debate except for the candidate whose turn it is to speak. While no props or pre-written notes will be allowed on the stage, candidates will be given a pen, a pad of paper and a bottle of water.

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    4 months ago

    Nope.

    This is the first year the parties boycotted the nopartisian comitte’s debates and instead are holding their own with CNN as the host

    Part of that deal, involves allowing ads.

    So CNN makes a bunch of money, the parties get influence over the debate, the questions being asked, and who can attend (only the two parties)

    Commercials are the most obvious part, but not the most impactful. This is dystopian as fuck and everyone seems to just be ok with it.

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      4 months ago

      I’m not ok with it but I wasn’t paying attention enough to make sense of it until reading your comment. I feel like people would be more upset if they realized what is lost.

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        people would be more upset if they realized what is lost.

        Bruh this is nothing.

        The DNC took away NH’s delegates because they wouldn’t violate state law by moving their primary.

        Just a few years after their lawyers said that primary’s can be rigged because they’re non binding.

        And people are just fucking going with it like it doesn’t matter because it was going to be Biden anyways.

        We’re getting frog boiled and people just get pissed when it’s brought up. I honestly don’t know why people haven’t been rioting