The Republican National Committee says it wants to keep Republicans from participating in “biased” contests and claims it will develop “newer, better” formats
squirm at the prospect of a job interview? Plenty of people would skip them if they could. Little surprise, then, that Republican candidates in America are ducking out of their political equivalent: the debate. Herschel Walker, the front-runner in Georgia’s Senate primary, has avoided them. So have Jim Pillen and Mike DeWine, candidates for governor in Nebraska and Ohio respectively. Ted Budd and Mehmet Oz, Senate contenders in North Carolina and Pennsylvania, have been similarly reticent.
On April 14th the Republican National Committee quit the Commission on Presidential Debates , a non-partisan group that sponsors general-election debates between candidates for America’s highest office. The RNC says it wants to keep Republicans from participating in “biased” contests and claims it will develop “newer, better” formats. Why are Republicans against debating as it currently exists?
Politicians have long tussled over moderators, topics, dates, venues, format and even stage setup. In 1988 the leader of the League of Women Voters, which organised debates at the time, complained that “stringent, unyielding and self-serving demands” were making the events “charades devoid of substance”. But presidential hopefuls have almost always shown up for general-election match-ups. Jimmy Carter skipped one in 1980 because he objected to the inclusion of an independent candidate.
The RNC wants debates to be held before early voting starts. It also gripes about biased hosts. But its stance is really a mark of
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