{"id":1438414,"date":"2022-04-14T15:29:34","date_gmt":"2022-04-14T19:29:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1438414"},"modified":"2022-04-14T15:30:03","modified_gmt":"2022-04-14T19:30:03","slug":"rnc-withdraws-from-commission-on-presidential-debates-over-biased-commissions-refusal-to-play-fair","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/rnc-withdraws-from-commission-on-presidential-debates-over-biased-commissions-refusal-to-play-fair\/","title":{"rendered":"RNC Withdraws From Commission On Presidential Debates Over \u2018Biased\u2019 Commission\u2019s Refusal To Play Fair"},"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\">28<\/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-withdraws-from-commission-on-presidential-debates-over-biased-commissions-refusal-to-play-fair%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=1438414&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><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/Screen-Shot-2022-04-14-at-1.05.50-PM-e1649961072590.png\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p>It\u2019s official: The Republican National Committee unanimously voted to withdraw from the \u201cbiased\u201d Commission on Presidential Debates over the organization\u2019s refusal to offer Americans a \u201cfree and fair forum\u201d to evaluate presidential candidates. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cTo be clear: we are not walking away from debates. We are walking away from the CPD,\u201d the RNC said in a statement. <\/p>\n<p>The decision comes after a <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2022\/01\/13\/republican-national-committee-ditches-presidential-debates-after-commission-refuses-to-fix-system-that-favor-democrats\/\">year-long rule change battle<\/a> between the CPD, which repeatedly refused to adopt the RNC\u2019s list of debate reforms, and the RNC, which accused the commission of deliberately failing to \u201cprovide a fair and impartial forum.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The CPD has a history of favoring Democrats by naming left-wing journalists as moderators who happily hijack Republican candidates\u2019 talking time. In the 2020 election cycle, the CPD chose Fox News\u2019s Chris Wallace, who asked slanted questions favoring Biden, and Steve Scully, who incompetently <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2020\/10\/09\/debate-moderator-former-biden-intern-steve-scully-publicly-asks-trump-hater-scaramucci-for-advice-on-going-after-trump\/\">tweeted<\/a> a private conversation he had with a notable anti-Trumper and then falsely claimed he was hacked.<\/p>\n<p> After the 2020 election, when the CPD used Covid-19 as an excuse to delay the first presidential debate until after mail-in balloting in some states began and then hired a moderator who once worked for Joe Biden, the RNC <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2020\/10\/09\/bob-dole-blasts-unfair-presidential-debate-commission-says-it-is-biased-against-trump\/\">and others<\/a> were fed up with the CPD and its leadership. <\/p>\n<p>The RNC demanded board term limits, limited public commentary on candidates by CPD staff, and a punishment process for moderators who \u201chave apparent conflicts of interest due to personal, professional, or partisan factors.\u201d\u00a0Any attempts by the RNC to fix the CPD\u2019s partisanship and affinity for the corrupt corporate media, however, were routinely ignored. Even when then-President Donald Trump tried to reason with the CPD, the commission didn\u2019t budge.  <\/p>\n<p>As a result, the RNC has pledged to find \u201cnewer, better debate platforms\u201d free of the corporate media\u2019s corruption and political establishment\u2019s bias. <\/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 commonsense 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 Chairwoman Ronna McDaniel said.<\/p>\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\" \/>\n<p>\n  Jordan Boyd is a staff writer at The Federalist and co-producer of The Federalist Radio Hour. Her work has also been featured in The Daily Wire and Fox News. Jordan graduated from Baylor University where she majored in political science and minored in journalism. Follow her on Twitter @jordanboydtx.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s official: The Republican National Committee unanimously voted to withdraw from the \u201cbiased\u201d Commission on Presidential Debates over the organization\u2019s refusal to offer Americans a \u201cfree and fair forum\u201d to<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":490,"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-1438414","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\/1438414","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\/490"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1438414"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1438414\/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=1438414"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1438414"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1438414"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}