{"id":1438333,"date":"2022-04-14T14:15:24","date_gmt":"2022-04-14T18:15:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1438333"},"modified":"2022-04-14T14:16:04","modified_gmt":"2022-04-14T18:16:04","slug":"rnc-votes-to-withdraw-from-biased-presidential-debates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/rnc-votes-to-withdraw-from-biased-presidential-debates\/","title":{"rendered":"RNC Votes To Withdraw From \u2018Biased\u2019 Presidential Debates"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">16<\/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-votes-to-withdraw-from-biased-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=1438333&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--><div><\/div>\n<p>The Republican National Committee (RNC) unanimously voted Thursday to withdraw from the Commission on Presidential Debates (CPD) and is pledging to find another venue to hold debates.<\/p>\n<p>CPD has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.debates.org\/debate-history\/\">hosted<\/a> general presidential election debates since 1988 and was originally a joint venture of the Republican and Democratic Parties. However, in recent years, Republican candidates and their allies have complained that the commission is biased towards Democrats. They have cited the campaign donations and personal ties of members of the commission, as well as the treatment of GOP nominees.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDebates are an important part of the democratic process, and the RNC is committed to free and fair debates. The Commission on Presidential Debates is biased and has refused to enact simple and common sense 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,\u201d RNC chairwoman Ronna McDaniel said in a <a href=\"https:\/\/gop.com\/press-release\/rnc-unanimously-votes-to-withdraw-from-commission-on-presidential-debates\/\">statement<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Today, the RNC voted to withdraw from the biased CPD, and we are going to find newer, better debate platforms to ensure that future nominees are not forced to go through the biased CPD in order to make their case to the American people. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/v8YdXyr3wX\">pic.twitter.com\/v8YdXyr3wX<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Ronna McDaniel (@GOPChairwoman) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/GOPChairwoman\/status\/1514652851590828033?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 14, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>\u201cToday, the RNC voted to withdraw from the biased CPD, and we are going to find newer, better debate platforms to ensure that future nominees are not forced to go through the biased CPD in order to make their case to the American people.\u201d <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2020\/10\/11\/ronna-mcdaniel-presidential-debate-commission-corrupt-joe-biden\/\">(RELATED: RNC Chairwoman Ronna McDaniel: Presidential Debate Commission \u2018In The Pocket Of Joe Biden\u2019)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Republicans have cited the personal ties and political views of CPD officials as evidence for bias as far back as 2012. Obama White House aide Valerie Jarrett <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2012\/10\/03\/white-house-marriage-ties-to-presidential-debate-commission-continue-with-valerie-jarrett\/\">served<\/a> on a foundation board alongside the husband of the CPD\u2019s executive director, and vice presidential debate moderator Martha Raddatz was previously <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2012\/08\/23\/marital-personal-ties-link-obama-administration-to-commission-on-presidential-debates\/\">married<\/a> to an Obama appointee. That same year, Republicans <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/news\/post-politics\/wp\/2014\/01\/27\/romney-knocks-cnns-crowley-over-debate-flap\/\">blasted<\/a> presidential debate moderator Candy Crowley for repeatedly violating debate rules and <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2014\/01\/27\/romney-breaks-silence-on-candy-crowleys-debate-interference\/\">promoting<\/a> Barack Obama\u2019s talking points about the Benghazi terrorist attack.<\/p>\n<p>Former President Donald Trump harshly <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2016\/10\/18\/key-members-for-the-commission-on-presidential-debates-are-in-bed-with-hillary-clinton\/\">criticized<\/a> CPD, citing several board members\u2019 donations to Hillary Clinton in 2016, as well as technical <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2016\/09\/30\/presidential-debates-admits-trumps-mic-was-messed-up\/\">problems<\/a> with his microphone during one debate. He <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2019\/12\/17\/trump-commission-presidential-debates\/\">threatened<\/a> to withdraw from several debates with candidate Joe Biden, ultimately <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2020\/10\/08\/commission-presidential-debates-donald-trump-campaign-spokeswoman-erin-perrine\/\">refusing<\/a> to participate in one that CPD attempted to host virtually due to the COVID-19 pandemic.<\/p>\n<p>CPD\u2019s decision to hold its first debate after 26 states began early voting was also a source of complaints.<\/p>\n<p>CPD reportedly <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2020\/09\/30\/debate-commission-trump-biden-ohio-new-rules\/\">considered<\/a> allowing moderators to cut off candidates\u2019 microphones in 2020, after Trump and Biden repeatedly interrupted each other.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Republican National Committee (RNC) unanimously voted Thursday to withdraw from the Commission on Presidential Debates (CPD) and is pledging to find another venue to hold debates.CPD has hosted general<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":67,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1438333","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\/1438333","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\/67"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1438333"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1438333\/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=1438333"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1438333"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1438333"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}