[maggief]

Video clip:

https://twitter.com/therecount/status/1314174965978198018

Trump just now on Fox Business: “I’m not gonna do a virtual debate.”

“I’m not gonna waste my time on a virtual debate.”

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/08/business/media/trump-biden-debate-virtual.html

Mr. Trump said he only learned of the debate commission’s decision on Thursday morning, minutes before he got on the phone for an interview. He accused the commission of “trying to protect Biden.”

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3891699/posts

BREAKING: The presidential debate next week will be virtual, according to the Commission on Presidential Debates. The candidates will participate from separate remote locations...

[a fool in paradise]

The Debate Commission seems to be as biased as the Federal Election Commission that never seems to investigate coordinated voter fraud (not just ballot stuffing by union goons but precinct judges, county officials, etc.) or voter intimidation (beatdowns, murder, etc. of Trump supporters).

[Steven Tyler]

...and then they cut you off whenever they want.....

Why??
To protect sleepy Joe
To cut off and diminish President Trump

[maggief]

https://www.debates.org/about-cpd/commission-leadership/

Commission Leadership
Co-Chairs

Frank J. Fahrenkopf, Jr.
Dorothy S. Ridings
Kenneth Wollack

Honorary Co-Chairs

Gerald R. Ford*
Jimmy Carter
Ronald Reagan*
George W. Bush
Barack Obama

Co-Chair Emeritus

Paul G. Kirk, Jr.

Board of Directors

John C. Danforth
Charles Gibson
John Griffen
Yvonne Hao
Jane Harman
Antonia Hernandez
Reverend John I. Jenkins
Newton N. Minow
Richard D. Parsons
Olympia Snowe
Executive Director

Janet H. Brown

* Deceased

https://www.debates.org/about-cpd/

EXCERPT

Further, the CPD provides technical assistance to emerging democracies and others interested in establishing debate traditions in their countries. In recent years, the staff worked with groups from Bosnia, Burundi, Colombia, Côte d’Ivoire, Ghana, Haiti, Jamaica, Lebanon, Niger, Nigeria, Peru, Romania, Trinidad and Tobago, Uganda, and the Ukraine, among others.

[AndyJackson]

Since when does the CPD get to unilaterally decide debate rules without agreement between the candidates. The last two debates have been moderated by someone thoroughly in the liberal tank with one-sided questioning, really bad questions and biased time keeping.

for instance have you see one question where the Biden side is forced to state what they would do differently on a named key issue from what Trump has done and why? And then allowed the Trump side ample time to rebut? NOOOO???? And why the eff is that [because the dems have no valid policy alternatives is why, we all know]. As many private citizens have commented, that is the thing that is missing.

Pence cleaned Harris's clock despite the bias. But bias it is.

[Sgt_Schultze]

If joe goes on with this “debate” Trump should livestream his reactions on YouTube and Facebook