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RNC Votes to Withdraw From Commission on Presidential Debates
• https://www.theepochtimes.com By Nick CiolinoIn a statement, RNC chairwoman Ronna McDaniel said the commission 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."
In a tweet, McDaniel added that the GOP is "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."
This vote comes months after the GOP in a letter to urge its candidates to not participate in televised debates unless the commission adopts major reforms.
In the letter, McDaniel accused the commission of partisanship and "significant errors" in its organization of the 2020 presidential debates between then-President Donald Trump and then-presidential candidate Joe Biden.
The commission's "repeated missteps and the partisan actions of its Board Members make clear that the organization no longer provides the fair and impartial forum for presidential debates which the law requires and the American people deserve," McDaniel wrote.