What Will Presidential Debates Look Like if GOP Quits Commission?

Donald Trump and Joe Biden's final presidential debate stage at Belmont University in Nashville, Tennessee, on Oct. 22, 2020. (Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)

By    |   Tuesday, 18 January 2022 07:27 AM EST ET

The Republican National Committee’s threat to prohibit the GOP’s presidential nominee from participating in what it contends is a series of “biased” face-offs sponsored by the Commission on Presidential Debates could completely upend a decades-old campaign tradition.

For more than 30 years, the nonprofit commission, which was created by the Republican and Democratic Parties to ensure debates were included as a fixture of presidential elections, has been responsible for organizing the televised debates.

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The Republican National Committee's threat to prohibit the GOP's presidential nominee from participating in what it contends is a series of "biased" face-offs sponsored by the Commission on Presidential Debates could completely upend a decades-old campaign tradition. For...
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