WASHINGTON, May 31 — The presidential campaigns of Democrat Joe Biden and Republican Donald Trump know what they want to talk about in their high-stakes television debate next...
Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden and U.S. President Donald Trump participate in their second 2020 presidential campaign debate at Belmont University in Nashville, Tennessee October 22, 2020. — Reuters picWASHINGTON, May 31 — The presidential campaigns of Democrat Joe Biden and Republican Donald Trump know what they want to talk about in their high-stakes television debate next month, and now they’re trying to convince news network CNN to play ball.
Each campaign team, not surprisingly, has picked topics they think play to the candidates’ own perceived areas of strength in the debate and signaled them publicly, including to the network.However, this election cycle presents a nearly unprecedented situation — not since 1960 ushered in the era of televised presidential debates has a news organisation been fully in control of the terms and parameters of two debates between the top two candidates.
Besides topics, CNN and later news network ABC, which is hosting a September debate, control who is in the room, how long candidates have for replies, what other news media can share footage of the debates and how the Biden campaign’s proposed muting system for microphones would work. Shared in common between the two candidates is a focus on the economy, which voters rank top of their list of concerns in public opinion polls, though immigration and democracy also feature.
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