Commission on Presidential Debates says it will make changes to format to 'ensure a more orderly discussion'

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The Commission on Presidential Debates said Wednesday it would be making changes to the format of the remaining presidential debates after the first debate between Democratic nominee Joe Biden and President Donald Trump devolved into a chaotic disaster the night before.

“The Commission on Presidential Debates sponsors televised debates for the benefit of the American electorate. Last night’s debate made clear that additional structure should be added to the format of the remaining debates to ensure a more orderly discussion of the issues,” a statement from the CPD reads.

The CPD did not specify what changes were being considered or would be adopted, but said it would be "carefully considering the changes that it will adopt and will announce those measures shortly."
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I believe that what ever changes they adopt, that both campaigns must agree to them. That may limit the changes they successfully implement.

I would love for them to implement microphone muting.
 
Biden said Wednesday he hopes the CPD will find a way to control the amount of interruptions at future debates, and said the way Trump conducted himself at the debate was a "national embarrassment."

“I just hope there’s a way in which the debate commission can control the ability of us to answer the questions without interruptions,” Biden told CNN’s Arlette Saenz. “I’m not going to speculate on what happens in the second or third debate – my hope is that they’re able to literally – say the question gets asked of Trump, he has a microphone, he has two minutes, no one else has the microphone, and then I don’t know what the rules are going to be. That seems to me to make some sense.”
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they literally need both in sound proof booths with a timer on top, and once their time is up, they are MUTED and cut off completely.
 
The Trump campaign has said that it objects to any changes in the debate format.
 
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  1. From now on whenever Donald Trump is making a good point anywhere in the country, Chris Wallace will jump out suddenly from various different locations and shout “Booga-booga!” in an attempt to throw Trump off his game.
  2. Future debates will be moderated by Steve Scully and Kristin Welkin except when Chris Wallace is required to jump out shouting “Booga-booga!”
  3. Next time, Joe Biden will have to allow everyone to hear the cues coming in over his secret headset, and to make that more entertaining, the cues will be sung to the score of the 1960 musical “Camelot.”
  4. Every ten minutes, Donald Trump will be asked to denounce white supremacy until he just gets sick and tired of it and refuses, whereupon he will be denounced as a white supremacist, also to the score of the musical “Camelot.”
 
I think they should have an orchestra play a speaker off, like at the Oscars.

The Daily Show had a bit showing the people who were feeding replies to Biden and Trump. Then the guy who was supposed to be “informing” Chris Wallace showed up late, listens to 10 seconds then walks off disgusted, leaving poor Chris to face the mayhem alone.
 
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