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cbdo2007

(9,213 posts)
Wed Sep 30, 2020, 09:01 AM Sep 2020

He doesn't have that power. It should have been the Debate Commission to step in...

and enforce the rules.

THEY are the ones who need to implement a mic cut off switch and keep the candidates civil. The debate moderators can realistically only do so much before it is a shouting match, which is what happened last night.

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