There will be a mute button in tonight's final debate between President Trump and Joe Biden.
for parts of Thursday's debate, saying Tuesday that the organization is just trying to enforce rules the Trump and Biden campaigns have already agreed to.
The commission said Monday night that it would cut off Donald Trump's and Joe Biden's microphones while their opponent delivers initial two-minute answers on each topic at the debate in Nashville, Tennessee, a decision Trump told reporters he thought was"In an interview Tuesday on MSNBC, Frank Fahrenkopf, a co-chair of the commission, said the campaigns previously had agreed that their candidates would give their opponent two minutes of uninterrupted time to answer each of the...
"Both parties agreed before the first debate and also agreed again before the second," Fahrenkopf told MSNBC's Ayman Mohyeldin."If you watched the first debate, it's easy to see those rules were not followed, even though they'd agreed to," Fahrenkopf said, referring to last month's
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