Posted on 05/20/2024 6:06:52 AM PDT by Red Badger
Since 1976, every four years, the presidential nominees of the Republican and Democratic parties have met for televised debates. Usually, these debates are highly anticipated and attract impressive ratings. The largest viewing audience for a presidential debate was the first 2016 encounter between Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton. It drew an incredible eighty-four million viewers.
Of course, the problem with most of these debates is that liberal “journalists” masqueraded as impartial moderators. Thus, previous presidential debate moderators have included Lester Holt of NBC News, Gwen Ifill of PBS, Martha Raddatz of ABC News, Anderson Cooper of CNN, and Kristen Welker of NBC News. None of these moderators can be considered fair, objective, or impartial.
Every debate is the same scenario, featuring the GOP presidential candidate battling both his opponent and the moderator. For example, in 2012, moderator Candy Crowley of CNN, shockingly interjected on behalf of President Barack Obama to refute an accurate point that Republican nominee Mitt Romney was making about the Benghazi terrorists. The incident skewed the debate toward Obama.
Four years later, in the Democratic presidential primary debates between Hillary Clinton and Senator Bernie Sanders, Donna Brazile, a CNN political analyst, improperly intervened by giving advance notice to Hillary Clinton’s campaign about some of the questions that would be asked. After the revelations, Brazile was fired by CNN and expressed regret, but the episode shows how the presidential debates are rigged.
Unfortunately, this year’s two presidential debates will follow the same pattern. The Republican Party’s nominee, President Donald Trump, will be debating both President Joe Biden and the moderators.
Last week, Trump and Biden agreed to participate in two presidential debates. The first one will be televised by CNN on June 27 with Jake Tapper and Dana Bash moderating. The second debate will be televised by ABC on September 10 with David Muir and Linsey Davis moderating.
Sadly, none of these moderators are known for their fairness or objectivity. All of them, especially Tapper and Bash, are liberal activists pretending to be journalists. Both networks have been extremely unfair to Republicans, especially President Trump and supporters of the Make America Great Again (MAGA) agenda.
In fact, CNN has spent the last nine years trying to destroy President Trump. Currently, it is giving non-stop coverage to the “Trump Hush Money” trial, like the treatment of the O.J. Simpson trial in 1995.
Not surprisingly, despite the rigged arrangements and the biased moderators, President Trump is eager to debate his opponent. He said, “I am ready and willing to debate Crooked Joe at the two proposed times in June and September.”
According to President Trump, Biden is “the worst debater” he has ever faced and “the worst president in the history of the United States, by far.” In typical Trump style, he made light of Biden’s limited mobility and cognitive ability, quipping “Let’s see if Joe can make it to the stand-up podium…I will provide my own transportation.”
In a speech to Minnesota Republican Party leaders on Friday, President Trump said that he was going to demand Biden take a “drug test” before the debate. This is in response to Biden’s aggressive State of the Union Address in March that featured him yelling and hyper-energetic, in contrast to his usual repertoire of incoherent speeches filled with mumbling and rambling statements.
Unfortunately, Biden will not agree to a drug test or to any additional debates. President Trump had recommended more debates including one on Fox News. Yet, Biden has not been a guest on that network in years and will not risk an appearance before this election. His campaign announced that “The debate about debates is over. No more games.”
The Biden campaign only agreed to the two debates because he was losing to Trump. The latest Real Clear Politics average of polls, including third-party candidates, shows Trump ahead by 2.8 percent.
Due to their concerns about Biden’s mental incompetence and inability to effectively communicate, his team demanded that the debates follow strict rules, such as no live audiences. Their theory is that President Trump derives energy and thrives in front of an audience. One anonymous Biden adviser said, “Trump feeds off the crowd, they give him life. We wanted to take that away.”
Another Biden stipulation involved the exclusion of Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. from the debates. In their statement on the debates, the Biden campaign claimed that “The debates should be one-on-one, allowing voters to compare the only two candidates with any statistical chance of prevailing in the Electoral College — and not squandering debate time on candidates with no prospect of becoming President.”
Recent polls have indicated that Kennedy is hurting Biden more than Trump, so excluding him from the debates was a critical element in their strategy.
Kennedy fired back on social media, “They are trying to exclude me from their debate because they are afraid I would win. Keeping viable candidates off the debate stage undermines democracy…By excluding me from the stage, Presidents Biden and Trump seek to avoid discussion of their eight years of mutual failure including deficits, wars, lockdowns, chronic disease, and inflation.”
Yet, it is Biden, not Trump, who wanted to exclude Kennedy. Trump said that he has “no problem” including Kennedy if he meets the “threshold.” CNN is requiring candidates to have 15% support in at least four major polls and ballot access in enough states to reach 270 electoral votes. Currently, Kennedy is not on enough ballots and his poll numbers are below the 15% mark. Regardless of his debate eligibility, Biden will insist Kennedy be excluded.
Biden’s team also limited the number of television networks eligible to air the debates to those broadcast outlets that had hosted debates in both 2016 and 2020. Finally, the campaign demanded that the microphones of the candidates be muted after their allotted speaking time expires.
Even though Biden got everything he wanted, President Trump is still confident, posting on Truth Social, “Let’s get ready to Rumble!!!”
Taterhead has more than likely already received the debate questions from cnn.
I figured Brandon would supply CNN with the questions.
“previous presidential debate moderators have included Lester Holt of NBC News, Gwen Ifill of PBS, Martha Raddatz of ABC News, Anderson Cooper of CNN, and Kristen Welker of NBC News. None of these moderators can be considered fair, objective, or impartial.”
And let’s not forget that pos Chris wallace
Yep that’s probably more accurate
No.
Biden Campaign has already GIVEN CNN the questions................
Everything on tv is rigged. *reality* tv is ALL rigged especially the *news*.
If Trump is determined to walk into this ambush, he should practice like a marine — until he can’t get it wrong. Newt Gingrich would be a great head debate coach.
I would like to see a debate with no moderators. Have each candidate ask questions to the other.
Or have each candidate select who asks questions of the other. I think Trump would ask Tucker Carlson or Joe Rogan to question Biden.
Yes, and the tell will be that the answers will commence to proceed from Joe’s mouth even before Jake has finished axing the question.
Trump agreed to this. I’d like to see him clean Biden’s clock, but given the forum and who is moderating, it’s hard to see him doing that. In most scenarios, I don’t see how this helps him.
It will blow up in their faces.............................
“Our side” media should organize a press event immediately after this s#itshow, so Trump can continue on in his usual style.
I would like to have seen G. Gordon Liddy and Rush Limbaugh as moderators. They would’ve been a lot fairer than the ones we actually have had.
IMO this upcoming election will most likely vastly different
from the last one. The country won’t be in lock down or using
mail ballots to the degree they were used in the last election.
True politics, electronic devices, who controls them and other
items things will be in play but the finality is who gets the
voters out will have the best chance to win. Numbers decide.
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.......we, the people, have seen Biden stumble and totter across the WH lawn, fall up and trip down plane stairs, get lost on a 3’ podium, babble, slur his words, tell weird stories about cannibals...... underscoring that Biden is a mentally impaired, doddering, old coot — which was affirmed by Special Counsel Hur.
So Special Counsel Robert K. Hur must now be “surprised” that Biden-—who Hur said a jury would perceive as “a sympathetic, well-meaning, elderly man with a poor memory,” and thus be unlikely to convict -——is an aggressive eager debater, even meticulously setting the debate terms, appealing to voters who are anxious to reelect “an elderly man w/ a poor memory.”
Reference: Hur was appointed January 2023 by AG Garland to conduct the investigation of Biden into possible unauthorized removal and retention of classified documents at the U of Penn Biden Center for Diplomacy and Global Engagement and in the garage of the Wilmington, Del private residence of Joe Biden, as well as several other places........all easily accessible to influence-peddler Hunter Biden.
Joe finished his “Kindly Old Man w/ Faulty Memory Act” (to escape jail for mishandling classifieds).
Now Joenothing is into his “I’m a Trusted Beacon of Democrat Leadership Reelection Act.”
Must be almost time for his “Resurrect My Dead War Hero Son Act,” a proven vote-getter any moron in Delaware can tell ya.
“No more games” .... EFF You Biden.
The “moderators” won’t really moderate or facilitate the discussion of the issues. They’ll tee up Biden’s campaign pitches, then interfere when Trump responds, or makes his own campaign speeches. That’s how they operate their cable news shows- they give the Democrats wide latitude, then when a Republican is on, they interrupt and won’t allow an answer without offering some sort of contradicting opinion.
Biden will get softball questions and have the answers piped into his earpiece. Trump won’t get any policy questions, just things like: ‘how does it feel to be a convicted felon?’ You know, fair and balanced and all that stuff.
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