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The “discord” and the rhetoric will not be characteristic of the decisive debate that will bring together the outgoing president of the United States, Donald Trump, and his Democratic counterpart Joe Biden, on Thursday night.
The microphones will be cut off at some points during the debate, according to the organizers. The objective of this new step is “to allow candidates to express themselves calmly and without interruptions, as well as not wasting the time that each one enjoys.
The latest debate is taking place in Nashville, Tennessee, and is the last televised debate between the candidates before the start of the presidential vote on November 3 in all parts of the United States of America except Florida, which is key to the presidential election, and in which voters began voting early since last Tuesday. .
On the occasion of this crucial television debate, the Organizing Committee for the Presidential Debate, a neutral group that began organizing such appointments in 1988, stated that some changes were needed, especially after the first debate that brought Donald Trump and Joe Biden together in Cleveland, Ohio on September 29, which was dominated by verbal exchanges.
“Each candidate will have two minutes to speak without interruption at the beginning of each section of the discussion,” the committee added in a statement, adding: “When the two minutes are exhausted, the microphones will open again to allow each candidate to comment. or comments or ask your competitor a question. “
In addition, the Donald Trump camp expressed its opposition to such a measure (cut the microphones). But he added at the same time that “the outgoing president will participate this time in the last debate.”
It should be noted that the second debate, which was scheduled for October 15, was canceled due to disagreement over the form and framework of its organization.
“President Trump is committed to participating in the debate with Joe Biden, despite the last minute changes the committee has made in a final attempt to support his preferred candidate,” said Bill Stebian, Donald Trump’s campaign manager. . For their part, Biden’s campaign supervisors did not respond to this criticism.
As for the supervisors of Donald Trump’s election campaign, they expressed their dissatisfaction with the issues that will be debated. They indicated that “the last meeting should have been more about foreign policy.”
For his part, Donald Trump criticized the presenter and moderator of the debate, Christine Walker, accusing her of not being “impartial.” Christen Walker is known as a respected journalist and ABC News correspondent at the White House in Washington.
As for Biden’s campaign team, he confirmed that the two sides (Trump’s and Biden’s) were the ones that had agreed in advance that the dialogue facilitators would choose the dossiers discussed during the debate.
Biden’s team also accused Trump of trying to evade discussing the issue of managing the health crisis caused by the Covid 19 epidemic, which is a thorny issue “and fundamental for voters,” according to this team.
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