RNC To Advise Candidates Not To Partake In Presidential Debates Until Commission Creates Fair Forum

[libertybele]

RNC To Advise Candidates Not To Partake In Presidential Debates Until Commission Creates Fair Forum

Republican Party Chairwoman Ronna McDaniel pledged Tuesday the RNC would advise future presidential nominees to refuse cooperation with the Commission on Presidential Debates (CPD) after the supposedly non-partisan group operated as a Democrat campaign arm last fall.

“After repeated missteps and partisan actions that underscored its biases last cycle,” McDaniel wrote in a statement, “it’s clear that the Commission on Presidential Debates (CPD) is no longer providing the fair and impartial forum for presidential debates which the law requires and the American people deserve.”

At issue was the CPD’s refusal to host a single debate before early voting began in an election that would be decided by less than 43,000 ballots across three tipping-point states. McDaniel is demanding the debate commission pledge to holding at least one debate before voting begins in any state, “and in no case after the deadline for states to mail absentee ballots to uniformed and overseas voters.”

The group’s board of directors meanwhile, made unilateral changes to the high-stakes events often in favor of then-candidate Joe Biden.................

https://www.conservativereview.com/rnc-to-advise-candidates-not-to-partake-in-presidential-debates-until-debate-commission-makes-changes-2653210916.html

[Fishrrman]

Sounds tough.

They'll cave.

[PeteS in CA]

Well that's 30 or 40 years overdue!

[The_Reader_David]

Well that's 30 or 40 years overdue!

Yup.  Personally, I think every GOP candidate should hold out for a sequence of Lincoln-Douglas style debates, say four, in which each side puts forward two proposed policies which the other side opposes in the form of a resolution that the policy be adopted, and they get to make speeches for and against, give speeches in response, interrogate each other about their respective positions, then give closing speeches, each debate about one and only one of the four resolutions.  A retired judge agreed to by both campaigns could be the moderator, and the press could watch like the rest of us.

The idiotic joint-press conferences in front of a biased media panel or even a town-hall forum are not debates, generally do not highlight policy differences in a meaningful way, and are not really very interesting.