Debate commission considering cutting candidates’ mics at next presidential showdown

 

The presidential debate commission is considering giving the moderator the chance to chop a candidate’s mic at the subsequent matchup between President Trump and Joe Biden, it had been revealed Wednesday.

The debate commission announced that it'll adopt changes so as to avoid a repeat of Tuesday night’s clash between the candidates, which has been mentioned as a “dumpster fire” and a “sh–storm.”

The Associated Press reported that one change being discussed is giving the moderator the power to chop off the microphone of 1 of the talk participants while his opponent is talking.

The debate commission only released a press release that said: “Last night’s debate made clear that additional structure should be added to the format of the remaining debates to make sure a more orderly discussion of the problems .”

They added that the commission “will be carefully considering the changes that it'll adapt and can announce those measures shortly.”

Trump campaign communications director Tim Murtaugh said the commission was only making the changes “because their guy got pummeled last night.” The presidential debate commission maybe a non-partisan entity.

Enlarge ImageUS President Donald J. Trump and Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden

The first presidential debate was marred by constant interruptions as both Trump and Biden talked over one another. Debate moderator Chris Wallace accused Trump of being the more boisterous offender.

“Well, frankly, you’ve been doing more interrupting than he has,” Wallace said to Trump at one point.

Biden also heckled Trump, calling him a “clown” and telling him to “shut up.”

Wallace was widely panned for not controlling the discussion. CNN’s Jake Tapper called the event a “hot mess inside a dumpster fire inside a train wreck.”

Even Wallace seemed to be shell shocked by the unsettling nature of the discussion.

“I never dreamt that it might explode the tracks the way it did,” Wallace said in an interview with the NY Times after the competition.

However, the Nielsen company said that 73.1 million people tuned in, quite the other television event since the Super Bowl. The event did, however, come short of the 84 million who watched the primary debate between Trump and Hillary Clinton in 2016.

The next presidential debate may be a government building format scheduled for Oct. 15 in Miami.