If they wanted to prop Biden up, they would have hired actors.
They used real people, because (for once) they wanted to broadcast the truth. Because the MSM isn't trying to prop up Biden. They now want to take him down. Just reporting the truth will do it. They'll hire actors again after he's out.
That’s one possibility. One that I’d have wholly agreed with were it not for the fact that Margaret Brennan as the moderator was CLEARLY on the side of “Biden Done Gud” in this first year.
She had all the talking points and was rattling them off after every terrible group response trying to get them to change their answers. To me, that smacks of a clearly defined line of they way they wanted to push things.