Debate Commission To Mute Candidates' Mics At Start Of Each Segment

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NEW: President Trump and Joe Biden will have their microphones shut off while the other speaks at the beginning of each segment in Thursday's debate, the organizing commission says.

The commission that runs debates has changed the rules, following a cacophonous first debate that was packed with interruptions.Justin Sullivan/Pool/AFP via Getty Images

The decision comes after a chaotic first presidential debate that saw significant interruptions from President Trump, the Republican nominee, and Joe Biden, the Democratic nominee. The final debate comes just a week and a half before the Nov. 3 general election, in which Trump and Biden will compete for the Oval Office, and hundreds of congressional seats as well as nearly a dozen governors' mansion are up for grabs.

"This was supposed to be the foreign policy debate, so the President still looks forward to forcing Biden to answer the number one relevant question of whether he's been compromised by the Communist Party of China," the campaign continued.

 

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I'm glad to see someone come up with a way to get Trump to actually have A debate and not be a child. He could make his point more clearly and make somewhat more sense. I actually understood what he was saying, not that he had a point, but gotta start somewhere.

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