President Donald Trump may not interrupt Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden as much during the upcoming presidential debate as much as the president did during their first debate.
Fox News’ Chris Wallace noted during Sunday’s interview on Fox News with Trump campaign senior adviser Jason Miller that Chris Christie — one of the president’s debate advisers — previously said Trump came in “too hot” to the debate.
Trump and Biden repeatedly clashed during the first presidential debate, which has led to speculation on how the next and last debate scheduled for Thursday will go.
As Wallace noted that Trump interrupted Biden or Wallace roughly 145 times in the 90 minutes of the debate, the Fox News anchor asked, “Does he plan to be as disruptive in the debate this week as he was then…will we see more of the same or is he going to change his strategy?”
Miller first applauded Trump for doing “pretty well,” saying, “I still think that’s about half as many times as the president was interrupted at his town hall on Thursday night. So when you look at the full picture, I think he did pretty well and I think he won the first debate.”
Trump’s adviser later added that the president is expected to give Biden “a little more room” to speak on issues.
“When you talk about style, and you talk about approach, I do think that President Trump is going to give Joe Biden a little bit more room to explain himself on some of these issues,” Miller said.
See Miller’s comments on the debate below:
Miller added, “I do think the president is going to want to hear Joe Biden’s answer on some of these and we’ll definitely give him all the time that Joe Biden wants to talk about packing the court. I think he’s going to get it on Thursday.”
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The second presidential debate that was initially scheduled for Oct. 15 was canceled after the Commission on Presidential Debates (CPD) decided to make the debate virtual — drawing pushback from Trump.
NBC anchor Kristen Welker will moderate Thursday night’s debate. The topics for the debate include “fighting COVID-19, American families, race in America, climate change, national security, leadership,” as the CPD announced.
