Who picked ABC to run the presidential debate?
By
Byron York
September 10, 2024 12:01 pm
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WHO PICKED ABC TO RUN THE PRESIDENTIAL DEBATE? Step back from all the discussion about Vice President Kamala Harris, former President Donald Trump, debate preparations, microphones, and all the rest. Start with a basic question: How did the first, and possibly only, Harris-Trump debate become an ABC News debate?
The answer is that President Joe Biden picked ABC because he thought it offered him the friendliest and most advantageous forum in which to debate Trump. Of course, he picked CNN, too, and while CNN was not unfriendly to Biden, the debate will be remembered for the president’s vivid, real-time display of his senescence more than for anything the CNN moderators did.
It happened quickly in May, when Biden cockily challenged Trump to two debates. “Donald Trump lost two debates to me in 2020, and since then, he hasn’t shown up for a debate,” Biden said in a video released on May 15. “Now, he is acting like he wants to debate me again. Well, make my day, pal. I’ll even do it twice.”
Biden proposed two debates, laying out conditions that ruled out the possibility of Fox News handling either debate. The Biden campaign quickly settled on CNN for the first debate, scheduled for June 27, and ABC for the second, scheduled for Sept. 10.
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