Got nothing to base this on but intuition, and inspired thought.
What my mind just saw was that AI will be playing a dominate part in this debate. It's like Trump is not going to be debating with a human at all, but with a DebateBot that has been specifically designed to debate Trump and win.
This bot will not appear as super intelligence, that would be a giveaway, but responses from Biden, and pushback from moderators will be AI driven such that the perfect counter is put forward, but with the flaws and patterns that make everything sound legit.
So when the puppet speaks, the words that are broadcasted will be AI? Or will he be wearing a wire feeding him? Hiding a wire under a mast would be easy and visibly undetectable, but the signal could be detected and intercepted and blocked.
I have no idea, but those that think this is impossible in my view are underestimating how advanced AI has become, which is much further than we've been lead to believe.
This was just a wild thought I had, which was that AI would play some part based on the thinking that you don't have a Mickey Mantel on the team, and not play him.