RNC Threatens Debate Boycott If Trump’s Grievances With Format Aren’t Addressed | Talking Points Memo

Republican National Committee Chair Ronna McDaniel renewed former President Donald Trump’s grievances about the Commission on Presidential Debates, threatening in a letter to the commission Tuesday to discourage future Republican nominees against participating in presidential debates unless significant changes are made to the commission.


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What a waste.

Pick your noun.

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Sheesh.

It’s like he’s a prima donna or something.

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Well at least your idiotic candidates won’t have to suffer at the hands of a pro-reality bias.

I’m sure you’ll find some way to get your lack of a platform out there without any meaningful criticism. I suspect OAN and Fox will be involved so you’ll miss half the country, but that’s your problem.

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If Trump’s Grievances With Format Aren’t Addressed

What, was the stage in the shape of the wrong nazi symbol?

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They won’t participate in the debates unless they aren’t debates?

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Biden: “I don’t even know whether there will be a Republican Party in 2024.”

Yeah…he said this. :laughing: :laughing: :laughing:

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Cry, baby, cry. Sure, abolish the debate commission! Just let the League of Women Voters run the debates in future, by League rules. Nonpartisan questions. Same questions for each candidate. Limited time – strictly enforced! – for answers; same for all candidates. No celebrity moderators; use an experienced League mod.

Frankly, Americans have been begging for this ever since the League stopped doing the presidential debates.

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McDaniel went on to thank Trump in her letter to the CPD co-chairs, for his “background in television,” which she said provided him the ability to recognize that the glass shields put in place to protect against coronavirus, would cause the candidates to see their reflections once the stage was lit.

“Wait! Who is that strikingly handsome man looking back at me and who does his hair?” (shit, where was I?)

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Holy shit, the Trump Presidential Library is gonna be great!!

I can’t wait until my kids are old enough to take them to this solemn and historical room where they’ll see the reenactment of this critical and awe inspiring time when President Trump saved America. It’ll be worth the extra $100 surcharge Trump Tours will charge.

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I shouldn’t be surprised at the depths to which the RNC are willing to abase themselves before Mango Mussolini, and yet I still am.

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'Lil Donnie’s idea of unfair is when he loses or has to compete on a level playing field. My god, the psychopathology of a 74 year old imbecile who operates at the level of a spoiled and stupid 3 year old who literally cannot handle not having things go his way or being denied literally anything. I don’t know what’s more repulsive, that, or the tens of millions of imbeciles who worship the ground he walks on. There are no words to describe how stupid and ridiculous they are. And they breed!

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Don’t hold your breath. If that library were going to be built he’d be grifting off it already.

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He could demand that they lick the toilet bowl he just shat in and they’d shove each other out of the way to get there first. How does a person get to the point where they literally have no self-respect left? And, WHY?!?

It’s the authoritarian follower personality type, I suppose. I guess it serves some evolutionary purpose. Saber tooth tiger fodder?

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Is it just me but I still can’t figure out why Republicans are having such a hard time understanding that 2020 was the Year of the Global Pandemic. That every single person on earth in some way or another was dealing with the problems a Global Pandemic, and is still lost on Republicans.

Also who ever picked the pix to accompany this story just had to pick a pix of Trump gesticulating. Just when I was getting over the POTUS making stupid hand gestures. :grimacing:

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“Had it not been caught by the President of the United States, the CPD’s unforced error would have caused a surprising and awkward distraction for both candidates once the cameras started to roll,” she said.

"I just want to say that, because of Hunter Biden, and Crooked Hillary and Sleepy Joe, and the Deep State that they each represent, that I never did wha…

…HEY LOOK! A SQUIRREL!!!"

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HA HA HA HA HA ad infinitum.

Don’t let the door hit you in the lard-can on the way out.

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I cannot answer your question, but I can say what is totally absent in Trump World: diversity.

Diversity in people
Diversity in thought

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I have watched Steve Scully for DECADES and I always marveled at his ability to just stare at the camera no matter who was fulminating at what.

Hugh HEWITT as a ‘non-partisan’ moderator? Give me a break.

You know what I want: ONE F-ING DAY I DON’T SEE TRUMP ON MY TV-set. I thought after we got thru the election it would be ‘safe’ but NO it AIN’T safe. We gotta hear about his court cases (just arrest his fat ass, PLEASE)? I am not even enjoying his ‘issues’ with the law because I AM STILL HAVING TO HEAR about him.

GO AWAY, just go away.

I never noticed Norah O’Donnell as being ‘Trump favorable’ so what the hell is RONNA smoking?

Woke up in a crap-ola move.

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Clutch (do you have a Paddlefoot in your household?), are you discussing Ronna’s avoirdupois or the former President’s?

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