'This was an awful debate that did absolutely nothing to educate the public about the two candidates and what they would do if given four years to serve as president of the US,' CillizzaCNN writes. | Analysis
It was, in a word, horrendous. Below, the best and worst from the night that was.HITS[This space is being intentionally left blank. This was an absolutely awful debate that did absolutely nothing to educate the public about the two candidates and what they would do if given four years to serve as president of the United States. It was, without question, the single worst debate I have ever covered in my two decades of doing this job.
* Debate rules: The two presidential campaigns spend months negotiating the rules to govern the debates -- most notably that each candidate would have two minutes of uninterrupted time to answer each question before there was time for a more general conversation. That never happened. Not once. Instead, Trump interjected almost as soon as Biden began to speak. Wallace would then remind Trump that his campaign had agreed to these rules. Trump talked over him.
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