Well it sure as fuck isn't a debate, is it...
The Republican National Committee voted unanimously on
Thursday to withdraw from the Commission on Presidential Debates, saying the group that has run the debates for decades was biased and refused to enact reforms.
“We are going to find newer, better debate platforms to ensure that future nominees are not forced to go through the biased CPD in order to make their case to the American people,” the committee’s chairperson, Ronna McDaniel, said in a statement.
The RNC’s action requires Republican candidates to agree in writing to appear only in primary and general election debates sanctioned by the committee.
The non-profit commission, founded in 1987 to codify the debates as a permanent part of presidential elections, did not immediately respond to a request for comment. The Democratic National Committee, the RNC’s counterpart for the party of President Joe Biden, was also not immediately available.
It was unclear what format future RNC-backed debates would take or whether they would take place as often as in recent decades.
The move, which followed months of wrangling between the RNC and the commission, will potentially deprive voters of seeing Republican and Democratic candidates on the same stage.
How fuckin' ridiculous has this whole process become?
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the audience listening to the nixon-jfk debate, rather than watching it on tv...... thought nixon won the debate.
ReplyDeleteI can't say I blame them, but they are in a no-win situation. If they drop out, they get branded as cowards who are unwilling to debate. If they don't, then they get stuck with debating both their opponents and the moderators.
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