Posted on 01/26/2020 11:26:27 AM PST by central_va
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump’s campaign is considering only participating in general election debates if an outside firm serves as the host, and his advisers recently sat down with the nonprofit Commission on Presidential Debates to complain about the debates it hosted in 2016.
The Dec. 19 meeting between Frank Fahrenkopf, a prominent Republican and co-chairman of the commission; Brad Parscale, campaign manager for Trump’s reelection effort; and another political adviser, Michael Glassner, came soon after Trump posted on Twitter that the 2016 debates had been “biased.
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I agree that they’re all smart and capable people. They sure would not be seen as unbiased. Catherine Herridge? I’m thinking more of people who keep their cards close to the chest - not obvious about their love for the president, and certainly not part of the hate group.
WHY ARE DEMOCRATS ALWAYS HOSTING REPUBLICAN DEBATES???
It is obvious. The media hosts the debates and the media are part of the DNC.
Almost every question in the 2016 debates (including Faux News) came with spin. In fact, I have never witnessed debates where almost every journalist asking the questions framed the questions with talking points for the left.
Furthermore, it is unlikely that any of the questions to the democrat would point out or be prefaced with any success of the Trump administration.
With that said, Trump kills it in debates and he is practicing every day as I have never seen a President take more questions off the cuff from reporters (who despise him by the way).
I get what Parscale is trying to do and understand why, but Trump will be at the debates as that is where he scored the most points in 2016 speaking directly to voters without the media spin.
They are likely just trying to preemptively put the media on notice that they will call them out immediately for the crap they pulled in 2016. I have been super-impressed with Parscale so far!
“Trump doesn’t need to do debates just do his rallies WHY IN THE HELL would you debate these idiot socialists!!!”
because it’s essentially the one and only opportunity that President Trump would have to expose the massive deficiencies of his opponent on live TV before a national audience ...
Trump doesn’t bluff.
She moderated the VP debate with plugs and Palin. She had a big financial interest in 0 winning the election in a book she wrote. She was approached by several entities and asked to withdraw as the moderator due to financial conflict of interest concerns but she wanted nothing to do with that.<
Ifill was all about race and the Benjamins.
No debates in several elections past....
Great post. Just my kind of thing.
I think for anyone to be qualified to disagree with you they should have a signup date on FR earlier than yours.
(***crickets****)
Thank you for your military service and for your service to FR since 1997.
Give them NOTHING from this point forward.
Pfffttt...
It’s about time we had a debate co-moderated by Rush Limbaugh, Don Bongino, Mark Levin, Cheryl Atkisson, Michelle Malkin and Mark Steyn.
Shannon Bream?
LOL - you got it.
Unfair? You mean like when Whachacollum gave Hillary the questions in advance—but not Trump???
No way will Trump participate in a debate.
HOORAY Chief.
Michael Savage and Laura Ingraham
He should demand Jim Lehrer or no debate.
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