Mr. Feist stated that cleaners have been wiping down doorknobs and different laborious surfaces within the bureau “a number of occasions an hour,”
Mr. Feist stated that cleaners have been wiping down doorknobs and different laborious surfaces within the bureau “a number of occasions an hour,” with additional consideration to areas that “a visitor, a CNN staffer, or, on this case, a candidate would possibly enter or contact.”
Sunday’s broadcast is considered the primary presidential debate to be held in a closed tv studio for the reason that Kennedy-Nixon debates of 1960, based on Mr. Feist. These encounters, the primary televised debates of the mass media age, passed off at tv stations in Chicago, Los Angeles, New York and Washington.
With solely Mr. Biden and Mr. Sanders onstage, it should even be the smallest Democratic debate of the marketing campaign; a number of earlier debates featured as many as 20 candidates and needed to be unfold over two nights. Timing guidelines might be just like previous debates, with 75 seconds allotted for every candidate’s response, although fewer zingers and zippy sound-bites are anticipated.
“Debates with two candidates are typically extra of a dialog than different debates as a result of time is much less of an element,” Mr. Feist stated. “Whereas these are the principles, the truth of a debate with two candidates is that it’s prone to be extra conversational.”
Sunday’s debate was initially deliberate for an Arizona theater with a big viewers. CNN, Democratic officers and the campaigns agreed to maneuver the placement to Washington, decreasing the necessity for a whole lot of political aides, journalists and TV crew members to take cross-country flights.
The CNN anchors Dana Bash and Jake Tapper, together with the Univision anchor Ilia Calderón, will function moderators. One other moderator, Jorge Ramos of Univision, relinquished his spot as a precaution after he believed he had been presumably uncovered to the coronavirus; Mr. Ramos has no signs and has stated he feels wholesome.
The absence of a dwell viewers will add a further wrinkle for 2 candidates accustomed to the reactions of a crowd. Mr. Biden and Mr. Sanders may also be standing at their lecterns when the published begins, Mr. Feist stated, so viewers is not going to see a dramatic entrance.