The US Commission on Presidential Debates said Monday night that it will mute President Donald Trump’s and Democratic nominee Joe Biden’s microphones during parts of next presidential debate, according to The Washington Post.
The 90-minute debate will be on Thursday and will be pided into six-15-minute segments, each having a different topic.
In the debate that is scheduled to be held at Belmont University in Nashville, each candidate will be given two minutes to speak uninterrupted at the start of each segment.
A period of “open discussion” will follow until the next segment begins.
Trump’s campaign has opposed the idea of granting the moderator the power to shut off a candidate’s microphone many times — a proposal that has arisen after the first debate, during which Trump repeatedly interrupted Biden.
However, in a statement Monday night, Trump campaign manager Bill Stepien suggested the president still plans to participate.
“President Trump is committed to debating Joe Biden regardless of last minute rule changes from the biased commission in their latest attempt to provide advantage to their favored candidate,” Stepien said.
He did not provide evidence to back up his accusation that the nonpartisan debate commission favors Biden.
“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,” he added.
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