Debate commission to Giuliani: The debate schedule won't change, & we'll select the moderators

[highplainsdem]

https://www.debates.org/2020/08/06/cpd-statement-3/

In your letter, you express the Trump campaign’s interest in a presidential debate in early September. You state that such a debate is necessary because some states begin sending out mail-in ballots before the first scheduled debate. There is a difference between ballots having been issued by a state and those ballots having been cast by voters, who are under no compulsion to return their ballots before the debates. In 2016, when the debate schedule was similar, only .0069% of the electorate had voted at the time of the first debate. While more people will likely vote by mail in 2020, the debate schedule has been and will be highly publicized. Any voter who wishes to watch one or more debates before voting will be well aware of that opportunity.

The Commission has found that three 90-minute debates work well to fulfill the voter education purposes the debates are intended to serve. If the candidates were to agree that they wished to add to that schedule, the Commission would consider that request but remains committed to the schedule of debates it has planned as reflected in the attached release.

You inquire about the possibility of logistical changes being necessary as a result of the pandemic. The Commission has been and remains highly focused on the possible impact of the pandemic on the debates. We have retained Cleveland Clinic as Health Security Advisor for the debates, and we are working closely with the Clinic on all aspects of debate planning potentially affected by the pandemic. The Commission will be ready for any contingency that is necessary as a result of the pandemic.

Finally, the Commission will adhere to our longstanding procedure of selecting the debate moderators. It will do so with great care, as always, to ensure that the selected moderators are qualified and fair.

[Cha]

1. TY Debate Commission!

[SheltieLover]

2. +1,000!

Aloha, Cha!

Faux should not be amond moderators.

[KS Toronado]

13. Chris Wallace from faux news should be one of the moderators just to show trumpig

that they are fair and balanced.

[SheltieLover]

16. Don't care whether "they" think it's fair and balanced, personally

Faux should be completely excluded from debates, but that's just my opinion.

[leftieNanner]

3. This might be paving the way

for IT to decide that IT doesn't want to do any debates at all.

"Very unfair............"

[Jarqui]

6. He's badly behind. He does not read but he looks at polls, He knows he has to show up

to give him a shot at turning it around.

That's why they want it sooner - to give him more time since he can't delay the election.

[highplainsdem]

8. I've been wondering about that possibility, too.

[BGBD]

21. he's absolutely

looking for a way out of the debates. He has done this before, in the 2016 Iowa Primary.

If I am a Trumo advisor the last thing I want to do is put him on that stage with Biden. Trump can't get through a planned press conference or interview without going off the rails. No chance in a debate with Biden hitting him.

[napi21]

4. What a nice & polite way of saying STICK IT UP YOUR A**! Hope the DT boys got the message! n/t

[SiliconValley_Dem]

5. excellent nonpartisan and logical response

[chriscan64]

7. Don't call us, Rudy.

We won't call you.

[Gothmog]

9. Rudy is an idiot

[NNadir]

10. They didn't do well with "qualified and fair" in 2016. They selected a misogynist, Matt Lauer...

...to "moderate" a debate featuring the first woman nominee of a major party.

"...but her emails..."

[edbermac]

11. Wow that's a lot of words to say.

A simple ‘fuck you Rudy’ would have sufficed.

[Mr.Bill]

12. They will continue to make ridiculous demands,

continue to get rejected and then they will say the debates are rigged for Biden and refuse to debate but they will frame it as Biden being afraid to debate Trump on his terms.

[gratuitous]

14. Whiny tweets about the unfairness of it all from Trump in 3 . . . 2 . . . 1

It's so unfair, it's unbelievable. But it's okay. It's fine.

[Marcuse]

15. He thinks another debate will help him. He is as arrogant as he is scared.

[ResistantAmerican17]

17. I'm uneasy about debates

1) Biden will be hamstrung because drumph is a compulsive, pathological liar. If Joe spends his time correcting or disputing the lies it will be construed that he was “on defense” by the babbling heads and pundits.
2) All that orange headed bag of flatulence will do is whine about burisma.
3). I just do not see an upside for Joe in a debate. Everyone knows drumph is clueless and as dumb as a pile of dog shit and no one who matters cares.
4) Let Vice President elect Harris debate and cut mother’s boy up into faux holy wafers and unleash the kraken on that lickspittle self-righteous douche.

I don’t know that he can skip ‘em, and I can be convinced that I’m missing it.

[iluvtennis]

18. Rudy involved on again...he really needs to sit down and STFU. nt

[iscooterliberally]

19. Right, because I totally have to watch at least one debate before I decide who I'm going to vote for

I'm mean seriously I have to give both sides their time to deliver their pitch, right?

[peggysue2]

20. That's the way you do it

Stomp on the con job before it takes root. Make a clear and direct argument for your position/decision. Case closed.

Next question.

[crickets]

22. That's a most excruciatingly polite and detailed 'eff off!' Delightful. nt