Reminder: The Presidential Debate Commission Worked To Hide Joe Biden’s Foreign Policy From Voters
By: Tristan Justice
March 03, 2022
The Commission on Presidential Debates robbed the American people of a substantive discussion on foreign policy in 2020.
America didn’t have a serious foreign policy debate in 2020. The supposedly non-partisan Commission on Presidential Debates made sure of it after President Donald Trump finished his first term with an explosion of Middle East peace deals redefining what was possible in a broken world of fragile diplomacy.
Six days prior to the third and final debate between then-former Vice President Joe Biden and the incumbent president, moderator and NBC News White House Correspondent Kristen Welker released the topics for the Tennessee showdown.
“Fighting COVID-19,” “American Families,” “Race in America,” “Climate Change,” “National Security,” and “Leadership,” were all included. Foreign policy, a topic traditionally reserved for the final televised debate was conspicuously absent.
“We urge you to recalibrate topics,” Trump Campaign Manager Bill Stepien wrote to the commission at the time, blasting the forum for unilaterally revoking foreign affairs from the discussion. “As is the long-standing custom, and as has been promised by the Commission on Presidential Debates, we had expected that foreign policy would be the central focus of the October 2022 debate.”
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