{"id":1214145,"date":"2022-01-13T13:04:43","date_gmt":"2022-01-13T18:04:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1214145"},"modified":"2022-01-13T13:04:53","modified_gmt":"2022-01-13T18:04:53","slug":"rnc-moves-to-mandate-that-gop-candidates-skip-traditional-presidential-debates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/rnc-moves-to-mandate-that-gop-candidates-skip-traditional-presidential-debates\/","title":{"rendered":"RNC Moves To Mandate That GOP Candidates Skip Traditional Presidential Debates"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Frnc-moves-to-mandate-that-gop-candidates-skip-traditional-presidential-debates%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1214145&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><aside id=\"right1forarticles\">\n<\/aside>\n<div id=\"ob-read-more-selector\">\n<p>The Republican National Committee (RNC) on Thursday informed the nonpartisan Commission on Presidential Debates (CPD) that it would force GOP presidential candidates to not attend debates it runs going forward.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe RNC will initiate the process of amending the Rules of the Republican Party at our upcoming Winter Meeting to prohibit future Republican nominees from participating in CPD-sponsored debates,\u201d said Chairwoman Ronna McDaniel in the <a href=\"https:\/\/prod-static.gop.com\/media\/documents\/RNC_Response_Letter_to_CPD_01.13.22_1642086188.pdf\">letter<\/a> addressed to Frank Fahrenkopf and Kenneth Wollack, the CPD\u2019s co-chairs, saying that GOP voters \u201chave lost faith\u201d in the commission\u2019s ability to act in a nonpartisan manner.<\/p>\n<p>McDaniel listed multiple reasons for the RNC\u2019s actions, citing the CPD\u2019s decision to wait until early voting already started before holding the first 2020 presidential debate and its failure \u201cto maintain the organization\u2019s strict nonpartisanship.\u201d <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2020\/10\/11\/ronna-mcdaniel-presidential-debate-commission-corrupt-joe-biden\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">(RELATED: Ronna McDaniel: Presidential Debate Commission \u2018In The Pocket Of Joe Biden\u2019)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_7071632\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\">\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-7071632\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Then-President Donald Trump and then-Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden during the first presidential debate on September 29, 2020 in Cleveland, Ohio. (Win McNamee\/Getty Images)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>The proposed changes are set to be voted on during the RNC\u2019s winter meeting in Salt Lake City in February. McDaniel added that the CPD \u201cso far seem[s] designed to delay any reform until it is too late to matter for the 2024 election.\u201d <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2020\/08\/06\/commission-on-presidential-debates-rejects-trumps-request-move-up-schedule-add-fourth-debate\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">(RELATED: Commission On Presidential Debates Rejects Trump\u2019s Request To Move Up Schedule, Add 4th Debate)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The commission responded in a <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/maggieNYT\/status\/1481669086522322946\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">statement<\/a> Thursday, saying that it \u201cdeals directly with candidates for president and vice president who qualify for participation.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe CPD\u2019s plans for 2024 will be based on fairness, neutrality and a firm commitment to help the American public learn about the candidates and the issues,\u201d it added.<\/p>\n<p>Content created by The Daily Caller News Foundation is available without charge to any eligible news publisher that can provide a large audience. For licensing opportunities of our original content, please contact <a href=\"mailto:licensing@dailycallernewsfoundation.org\">licensing@dailycallernewsfoundation.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Republican National Committee (RNC) on Thursday informed the nonpartisan Commission on Presidential Debates (CPD) that it would force GOP presidential candidates to not attend debates it runs &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":65,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1214145","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1214145","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/65"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1214145"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1214145\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1214145"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1214145"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1214145"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}