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The Republicans Would Like More Control over the Presidential Debates

Not to contain their inappropriate candidate from 2020, but to allow him to run roughshod over his opponent and the moderators.

Carol Burt
5 min readJan 13, 2022

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The Republican National Committee has said it may prohibit republican presidential nominees from taking part in future Presidential Debates sponsored by the CPD (Commission on Presidential Debates) unless the CPD makes concessions the republicans want instituted before the next debate season.

They apparently want to have more to say about who moderates the debates and are sore that Trump’s mic had to be muted several times in the last debate.

Anyone who saw the debate saw that Trump simply wouldn’t let Biden finish his statements, wouldn’t wait his turn, basically would not cooperate. He did the same thing when he debated Hillary Clinton in 2016 except worse. He was constantly interrupting, making insulting remarks, and generally ignoring the rules of the debate. He even tried to intimidate her by walking up behind her.

I know a rule the CPD should make— tell Trump to stay in his seat or at his podium instead of running around trying to intimidate a candidate like he did Clinton.

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Carol Burt

Former print journalist, former mayor, retired law enforcement officer. Writing about politics and government along with random personal essays.