Trump has won the maximum, and maximum harshness, complaints for his part in the rules of debate agreed in the past. An editorial in USA TODAY compared him to “a teenage bully in a diner cafeteria. “
The Presidential Discussion Committee, the organizer of the event, said it was “clear that additional design will be added” to the remaining discussions for “a more orderly discussion of the issues. “Two more presidential debates are planned.
But what happened to Tuesday’s debate? USA TODAY has reviewed the C-SPAN video of the procedure to give you a quick view of questions, answers, quotes and chaos. Here’s what we found:
It’s hard to tell if Trump or Biden talked more, because the applicants and the moderator were talking to each other, but it turns out that in terms of total time, the applicants were close, according to a CNN analysis. Trump spoke 2 minutes and 50 seconds more than Biden.
But the disconcerting crosstalk prevented any meaningful debate. If we go up all the segments in which more than one user spoke, 26. 3% of the cacophony of the procedure, making incivility the undisputed winner of the debate.
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