Election 2020

[Bob Butler 54]

(09-30-2020, 02:37 AM)pbrower2a Wrote: Did anyone see the debate?

I didn't watch live, but picked up a few highlights after.  A few thoughts.

• Trump took an established institution and did his best to trash it.
  
  
• The rules didn't seem to apply in Trump's mind to Trump.
  
  
• The result was chaos.
  

All of this doesn't contradict Pbrower's post, which I can't argue with.

My thought is that Biden shouldn't do other debates without some modifications to enforce the rules agreed to, and perhaps applying some lessons picked up from COVID.  Three separate studios with the microphones and cameras of the candidates turned off when on the other guy's time.  If the candidates speak longer than the allocated time, their closing statements get shorter by the length of the overrun.  After there is overrun greater than their closing statement is planed for, no closing statement.

This seems necessary.  One chance for Trump to show himself being Trump is likely enough.  The results would perhaps distinguish between Trump and Biden presidencies.