That’s right. Actually, there a two reasons the Leftist MSM won’t do it. I have to stop. Why is the Right even giving the Left the opportunity to run the “debates” of the candidates on the Right??? Of COURSE the Left will screw it up. The stupidity is the Right letting the Left run THE RIGHT’S SHOW. Astonishing.
Having said that, there probably many reasons the Leftist MSM won’t run an actual debate. Two of them are 1) what you said, wanting to be the center of attention and 2) so they can dictate the subjectmatter to keep the candidates from talking about the real issues of the day brought about by Obama and the Left and threatened to continue with Clinton and the Left.