Next Trump-Biden Debate Will Have a Mute Button & Trump Isn’t Happy

30 September (in Singapore) was an important day.

Because much like us earlier in the year, the US is also having their election this year.

And the first presidential debate between Donald Trump and Joe Biden was interesting, to say the least.

If you haven’t seen it, there were basically a lot of interruptions and talking over each other.

Following this, there was supposed to be a second debate to be held on 15 October but if you remember, Trump was tested positive for COVID-19.

For safety’s sake, the debate was then changed to be a virtual one.

Which Trump was then very against because he did not like the fact that his microphone could be muted off.

“You sit behind a computer and do a debate – it’s ridiculous, and then they cut you off whenever they want,” he told Fox Business.

Some of this was a little ironic because the interruptions got so bad that this happened.

Yup, Biden straight up told Trump to “shut up” after things got a little too heated.

So amidst all of this, what’s the situation like now?

Newest Date And Changes

For one, there is a new finalised date.

The debate will take place this Thursday, on 22 October.

This will be their last encounter before election day on 3 November.

And remember how Trump was concerned about having a muted microphone?

Well, this debate will actually still feature a mute button so both him and Biden could speak uninterrupted.

The mics would apparently be silenced to allow the other to make a two-minute opening remark at the beginning of each 15-minute segment of the debate.

After that, the microphones will be unmuted to allow a debate to ensue which we can only hope will have fewer interruptions.

Naturally, Trump wasn’t too happy about this.

He also argued that it should focus more on foreign policy and said that there was a lot more bias to Biden’s party.

In response to that, Biden’s campaign said both sides previously agreed to let moderators choose the subjects.

Something seems a little off here.

However, he stated that he would go through with it “regardless of last-minute rule changes from the biased commission in their latest attempt to provide advantage to their favoured candidate.”

After all, he can’t back out now with quite a bit at stake.

Importance Of Winning This Debate

As mentioned earlier, this would be the last one.

This would be one of the last times either would reach such a huge prime-time audience, especially since around 30.2 million people have already voted by 19 October (people can vote earlier in the US, especially now when they’re encouraging people to vote via mail due to COVID-19).

However, in some places like Florida, the number of votes seems to be roughly tied among both parties, according to a Reuters/Ipsos poll last week.

Based on a poll last month, however, it seemed that Biden had a slight edge over Trump when asked who was favoured.

Voting might also speed up this week even before the debate, to avoid crowds from the big debate.

We can only wait as Thursday comes upon us.