President Joe Biden didn’t just lose the presidential debate during its 90-minute run time. Biden set the loss in motion with his team’s handcrafted debate rules.

There was a pocket of conservative media who felt the rules for the microphones would hurt former President Donald Trump’s debate performance. Biden’s team had demanded that moderators cut the microphone for the candidate who is not speaking so he would not be able to interrupt. This was supposedly going to harm Trump because it would prevent him from getting some viral clips by interrupting Biden’s answers.