I know how bad the candidates were, but my family and I thought the way CNN and the Moderators set up and handled the debate was GREAT! I never felt there was a bias towards either. They kept it moving, ect. Now we may have missed something...but it was not glaring. This is how EVERY debate should be set up. Agree or Disagree?
MAJOR props to CNN and the Moderators last night!
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They did well. They were keenly aware of their previous bias statements against Trump and they ensured that it didn't affect the debate.
Moderators did well and no problem with cutting mics when time allotted is over. Trump abused this aspect in previous debates and it shouldn’t be allowed. Glad it wasn’t last night.
"major" props is a lot for acknowledging they simply did their job, unless it was a major undertaking to not be biased
They need to extend the debate time to articulate their answers to 5 minutes.
I thought they did well. I wish the format would have really pressed the candidates to answer questions and not just give the campaign answer but it ran pretty well.
Lol at how seriously all you dorks took the debate last night.
No,.. by the time we got to the two minute mark both of these clowns were grasping at straws...
You familiar with our Congress?,.. Other than age, the bench isn't improving.
I am assuming you must not have watch prior debates. Yes, they did GREAT. 😂
Who says I took it serious. 😂 I just wanted to see how bad it would get. And, the setup and Moderators kept it from being worse. Clearly you must be bothered by how it went.
We have WAY too many TV's in our house, but my teen age kids truly wanted to watch it.
My 11 yo was actually interested and wanted to watch.
The 9 yo stayed just because she didn't want to get up. Leave it to trump to be the reason I had to define what a porn star is to them. Thanks conman......
You could tell the woman wanted to perform oral sex but her handlers wouldnt let her.
Trump brought that up? Or was that Weekend at Bernie?
You're just embarrassed Joe.
Joe's the one that brought it up. Blame him.
It would be nice if they did force them to actually answer some of the questions.
I know a big one I would have liked to hear an answer to was when they asked both candidates a couple of times what they plan to do with increasing child care costs. I don’t think either of them gave any sort of answer to the question.
They allowed the usual Trump firehose of lies to go unchecked. Pretty much how I figured the debate would go. Joe has a stumble, and the media/talking heads/incels of HORT ignore the rambling lies of the narcissistic sociopath felon.
I thought they totally bailed Joe out a couple times when he was bumbling and stumbling and they just said "time"... Don't know if time was actually up... Saved by the bell
I think it is more people had hopes for a better showing from Biden. Trump delivered exactly as expected. So not much to point to other than, "he is who we thought he was!" Other than looking for the counter of lies.
An opinion by the opposition, an opinion which you don't really care for... Well that doesn't make it a lie.
Cutting off the mics was the best thing that could’ve happened to Trump.
That was Joe’s job. A competent candidate (or a ten years younger Joe Biden) could’ve taken Trump apart.
They did their jobs. It’s not their jobs to “check” either candidate during the debate. It’s up to the other candidate and Joe couldn’t do it.
I thought they did a fantastic job. Wish those 2 did all presidential debates.
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This. Also how about fact checking in real time to avoiding some of the off the chart lying.
Agree, they did well. It was the most watchable debate there's been in a long time.
The negotiated rules between CNN and the campaigns specifically said that the moderators were not allowed to do any real-time fact checking.
Heard on NPR today.
Heard on NPR today.
I thought the restrictive format actually helped Trump as it made him more measured and allowed Biden to talk himself into more mumbo, jumbo. I thought one of the best lines of the debate is when Trump said something to the effect of…I’m not sure what Biden just said and I’m not sure he knows either. 😉
