Sentences with phrase «planted audience questions»

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Ken Bone (C), a power plant employee from Belleville, Illinois, waits in the audience to ask a question about energy policy and jobs during the presidential debate between Republican U.S. presidential nominee Donald Trump and Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton at Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri, October 9, 2016.

Some devious speakers plant their first question in a big audience, but a more honest stance is to rehearse a strategy for handling questions where you do not know the answer.

Chamber rules of engagement discourage rude behavior, though the occasional hostile question from plants in the audience can throw candidates off message.

Even ConnCAN's «plant» in the audience carefully avoided bringing up that taboo subject, instead asking Malloy a question to help him brag about the raucous education town hall meetings that accompanied his 2012 «education reform» legislative coup.