Posted on 08/21/2020 2:09:13 PM PDT by knighthawk
The nonpartisan commission that for more than three decades has organized and hosted general election presidential debates is turning down a request by President Trump’s re-election campaign to help broker talks between Trump’s team and Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden’s campaign to add a fourth debate between the two candidates.
Fox News confirmed that the Commission on Presidential Debates on Friday sent a letter to former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani, who serves as the president's personal attorney and who has been aiding the Trump campaign in debate negotiations. In the letter, the commission declined to get involved in any discussion between the campaigns about more debates and said the two camps needed to work it out on their own.
“We believe that any discussion pertaining to adding a debate should first be between the candidates. If an agreement is reached, they should then contact the CPD accordingly,” read the letter.
(Excerpt) Read more at foxnews.com ...
The hell with them......Trump should himself schedule a third debate......and dare Biden to debate him.
I agree. Make Joe “an offer he can’t refuse.”
I’m curious as to how they’ll address each other. Will Biden say “Mr. President” or “Mr. Trump?” Will the President call him Joe, Mr. Vice-President, Mr. Biden...?
The "nonpartisan" commission that only allows leftist moderators? What a joke...
Hell I’ll be shocked if there’s one debate, even a virtual one.
SloJoe will tell you to watch it on your record player, man.
Choke, wheeze, gasp on such a lie! The Commission on Presidential Debates is a SWAMP CREATURE of the muddiest water! Look at its 2019 board of directors; John C. Danforth, Charles Gibson, John Griffen, Jane Harman, Antonia Hernandez, Reverend John I. Jenkins, Jim Lehrer, Newton N. Minow, Richard D. Parsons, Olympia Snowe, and Kenneth Wollack.
Of note is their persistent and total ban on any non-TV / Newspaper moderators / questioners. Remember Donna Brazile's Hillary lean against Bernie in 2016. Remember CNN's Candy Crowley giving Obama her agreement on his answer? Will this nonpartisan (barf) commission queue up MSNBC & CNN partisans like they have done in the past? Nobody to the right of Lehrer need apply!
Yes...call him a coward! I am! He is a coward! He is afraid of Trump!
Tell Biden there will be young girls there with great smelling hair. Trump could call the debate “JOE30330 vs Trump”
They realllll think biden acceptance speech last night won him the presidency!! Why debate when it’s in the bag!! Right?! POS!
It will be more interesting if they call each other pedo-joe and orange-turd. That is the level of political discourse on social media anyway. May as well give up any last pretensions of decency in discourse.
But,of course,they're showing yet again that they're *not* "non-partisan"...which shouldn't surprise anyone.
It would have more viewers than any debate in history.
Trump can do a “Clint Eastwood” & debate an empty chair....
Lincoln-Douglas style debate
NO moderators
Feed to any channel that wants to carry the debate
Subject alternates betw PDJT and whomever.
Three words max to declare the Subject title
****mitigates Subject Title being a speech
Each Debater gets 5 minutes on current Subject
Each Debater gets 2 minutes for rebuttal
In this day and age, who knows? I think Mr Trump will be quite respectful because of Joe’s cognitive problem.
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.