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Given the pre-debate criticism, CNN was more than fair in managing the presidential debate. Time was allotted fairly and both were able to speak without interruption.
For the past three years, we saw the White House through the filters of speech writers, teleprompters, prepared cue cards and preapproved press questions posed only by chosen friendly mainstream media sources. The debate stripped away all of those messaging tools and both candidates were forced to answer questions directly and candidly from the moderators. So larger questions are now surfacing: What did the weeklong sequestration at Camp David accomplish for Joe Biden? And for Karine Jean-Pierre: Is the debate being labeled as another “cheap, fake manipulated video?” If not, what is the true cognitive health of our president? Who are the actual nonelected decision-makers at the White House?
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