The first presidential debate was a debacle: Both candidates interrupted the other endlessly (although President Donald Trump barely let Joe Biden get a word in edgewise). And moderator Chris Wallace of Fox News lost all control, letting the September 29 discourse devolve into a schoolyard scrap (at least there were no flies).
The second debate, originally scheduled for this coming Thursday, got blown up after Trump tested positive for COVID-19 and then spent three days in the hospital. The Commission on Presidential Debates (CPD), which sets the schedule with input from both campaigns, decided the second contest should go virtual. Trump quickly shot that down and said he wouldn’t play.
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