Was tempted to call this “Debate 2: Electric Boogaloo” but a) A lot of Lemmy won’t get the OG reference. and 2) “Boogaloo” has been co-opted and carries an unfortunate connotation these days.
Also, while it’s Trump’s 2nd debate of the season, it’s Harris’s first…
It’s being run by ABC News at 9 PM Eastern time, 6 PM Pacific, I see MSNBC starts their coverage TWO HOURS EARLY. That’s a lot of air time to fill, guys. Good luck!
Live updates, how and when to watch, debate rules, etc. here:
Link to the first debate thread here:
https://lemmy.world/post/16973660
That’t it! Thanks for hanging with it everbody!
I’m feeling a bias here towards Kamala. I’m behind her all the way, but a bias is NOT going to help the dems cause. I’m sure anyone who is fully behind Trump has turned this off by now, but I think some undecided voters will see the bias and bail on the only logical choice for President. Bias will make Trump a martyr to them.
Trump is terrible.
Bias due to fact checking Trump or from what?
Sorry I missed this. Now that I’ve had time to reflect, I misspoke. What felt like a bias at the time boils down to Trump fact checking. They could’ve spent the whole 90 min focusing on his BS.
Most people aren’t watching it. It will be the clips and soundbytes on social media. We don’t really know how the debate is going, because the actual reception of this debate hasn’t fully occurred yet.
In some meaningful sense, this debate will actually be broadcast, as in seen by a broad audience, over the next 24-36 hours in fragmented form.
75% of the eligible voters are watching right now.
If anything it’s biased towards Trump. His mic gets unmuted whenever he opens his mouth (he’s even allowed to interrupt and talk over the moderators!), he’s allowed to completely ignore time limits and only a small fraction of his blatant lies are fact checked.