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.

But this was always something that was going to help Trump. Trump lost the first debate in the 2020 election because he refused to let Biden ramble on and show viewers exactly how old he was. By constantly interrupting, Trump managed to make himself look obnoxious and protect Biden from himself and his own answers.

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Trump being unable to interrupt (and apparently unwilling, given his surprising level of discipline) allowed him to capitalize on Biden’s ramblings. Take Biden verbally wandering off at the end of an answer on immigration, which allowed Trump to begin his answer with, “I really don’t know what he said at the end of that sentence, I don’t think he knows what he said either.”

That kind of moment, a better single debate moment for Trump than he saw during the entire 2020 election cycle, doesn’t happen if Trump interrupts as he did in 2020. Just as Trump getting kicked off of Twitter in 2020 has helped him by resigning his social media antics to Truth Social, Trump being forced to remain disciplined is only going to help him stay on message and stay more reasonable, especially in contrast with Biden’s cognitive decline.