Will be wild

I guess it's too much to hope for that they don't have an audience.*

...but hey, do what you want...you will anyway.

UPDATE 04:20 pm:

The parties agreed to two debates hosted by CNN and ABC.  No such agreement was made for a Fox hosted debate.  This is Trump setting up a whinge-fest.  

UPDATE 06:40 pm:

*UPDATE 05/17/2024:  I understand this was one of the terms, and why they didn't want to use the presidential debate commission due to their live audience settings.

An empty TV studio could, Biden aides feel, deprive their GOP rival of a major advantage when they face off.

“Trump feeds off the crowd, they give him life,” said one Biden adviser who was granted anonymity in order to discuss internal strategy. “We wanted to take that away.”

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Among their concerns were that the audience noise could disadvantage Biden, who sometimes has trouble hearing amid a din. They also wanted to ensure that there was a clean tempo and cadence to the debate and that it not turn into a shouting match or spectacle.

  Politico

Even more important, I would think, is the TV audience being influenced by the crowd.

[T]hey were also pleased that the debate would, it appears, involve microphones that can be cut off if a candidate speaks when it’s not their turn.

[...]

There were several conditions that the Biden team felt were necessary in order to agree to a debate with the former president, among them that at least one forum take place before the start of early voting and that the hosts weren’t from outlets with an ideological bent toward Trump.

[...]

It’s a debate without a crowd. It’s a debate without any third party candidates. And it’s an early debate.

RFK Jr is saying he qualified for the debates, but maybe that's not going to be the case in this one at least.

While some Democrats close to the White House suggested that Biden skip the debates entirely, most senior advisers felt he could not, for fear it would fuel public perception that Biden wasn’t up for the rigors of the job itself.

And it remains to be seen if Trump himself actually goes through with it.

Biden aides on Thursday privately acknowledged that the debates still could fall through. That they came together at all was regarded as a surprise. Both campaigns had declared that they would not participate in the Commission on Presidential Debates’ proposed schedule.

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“He’ll bring up all kinds of stuff that is irrelevant and painful,” said Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.). “He’s willing to take the hits, painful and unfair, bric-a-bracs that Donald Trump will throw, below-the belt-punches.”

Blumenthal said he believed the public would regard Trump as a “bully” for doing that again.

Well, he bullied Hillary Clinton in their debates, and guess who got elected.