"As previously announced by ABC News, to formally qualify for the debate, the participants had to meet various qualification requirements, including polling thresholds and appearing on enough state ballots to theoretically be able to get a majority of electoral votes in the presidential election."
Expect Jill Stein to whine anyway and likely show up outside the debate to make a scene about not being let in.
They get two minutes of rebuttal, and two minutes to address the rebuttal. I would bet the phrase "Well that's just not true." is uttered more than once. Hopefully, Harris comes armed with facts, and Trump just does his Trumpy ramble and sounds like a douche. My guess he goes full firehose with the bullshit and hopes that she comes off as shrill trying to correct every lie.
I think it's important for Harris to be seen calling out his bullshit... but the maga camp is so insulated from the truth that they'll probably just discard her corrections as "alternative facts" - it's nice to have the neutral party call out the bullshit.
Either you know you're wrong and you're lying or you're ignorant of facts that you should be well aware of as a former president and one running for president.
He's going to just say stupid shit and try to overpower her for the full time. She'll call him out on the b******* and deliver a sane and reasonable debate.
The day after both sides will claim they won.
The only thing I'm truly looking forward to is she's snarkier and more quick-witted she'll probably get enough jabs in there to really piss him off.
The vibes of the rules are off. Not sure what it is, but I hope someone can help provide context for if these are just normal rules or if this is wild shit happening in wild times
Timed responses and rebuttals are fairly standard, if boring. The questions come from the moderator, and their mics will be off when it isn't their turn to speak.
I doubt that stops Donny from trying to interrupt, and I wouldn't be surprised if he tries to steamroll the moderator. My hope is that Harris brings her A game and the moderator has a spine.