This week the Republican National Committee voted to withdraw from the Presidential Debate Commission:
The Republican National Committee announced on Thursday that it had voted unanimously to withdraw from the Commission on Presidential Debates, a supposedly nonpartisan group that organizes presidential and vice presidential debates before general elections. The independent claims of the CPD, however, came under renewed scrutiny after the way it handled the 2020 cycle debates and brushed off concerns about timing and procedures raised by the Trump campaign and RNC.
“Debates are an important part of the democratic process, and the RNC is committed to free and fair debates,” said RNC Chairwoman Ronna McDaniel. “The Commission on Presidential Debates is biased and has refused to enact simple and commonsense reforms to help ensure fair debates including hosting debates before voting begins and selecting moderators who have never worked for candidates on the debate stage,” she noted.
This next part comes with a beverage warning.
Ready? Ok, as it turns out, the head of the Debate Commission is troubled by the RNC’s decision for the following reason:
On RNC withdrawing from Commission on Presidential Debates, @SusanPage: “This is really terrible news…You run the risk of…not having the two candidates who are vying to lead our nation being forced to stand side by side and answer independent minded questions.” #AMRstaff
— Andrea Mitchell (@mitchellreports) April 14, 2022
HAHAHA! This person has apparently never objectively watched any fairly recent debates.
"Independent minded" questions, lol. Not going to get them from people like you, that's for sure.
— ScottAllanCole (@scottallancole) April 15, 2022
Remember when “independent-minded” John Harwood moderated a Republican debate?
They weren't asking independent-minded questions.
— Bonchie (@bonchieredstate) April 15, 2022
Exactly
— Rich Weinstein (@phillyrich1) April 15, 2022
Do these people think nobody has noticed how the debates have been “moderated”?
“Independent-minded questions” Like the ones the moderators give their preferred candidate in advance? https://t.co/AnpJbPWSbX
— Smatt (@mdrache) April 15, 2022
LOL! Yeah, those kinds of “independent-minded” questions.
They could just provide them with written questions, instead of having moderators who have had a tendency to argue with candidates in recent years.
Oddly enough, they tend mostly to only argue with candidates from one party. 🤔
— Fuzzy Chimp 🇺🇸 (@fuzzychimpcom) April 15, 2022
Even Bob Dole, the moderate of moderates, said the Commission on Pres. Debates was a corrupt, one sided liberal event. https://t.co/nKeo709PRv
— Target Identified / יוסף (@baileylewis23) April 15, 2022
Independent questions… https://t.co/FQBCYFihsX pic.twitter.com/MCz8MtAqAD
— Kevin Barnard (@KevyB1990) April 15, 2022
Just look at all these incredibly objective journos:
Dependent. https://t.co/YI85c1jIht
— Razor (@hale_razor) April 15, 2022
That photo just reeks of “journalism”
