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Every four years since 1976, Republican and Democratic presidential candidates have met for a televised debate. These debates are usually highly anticipated and highly rated. The most-watched presidential debate was the first showdown between Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton in 2016. It attracted a whopping 84 million viewers.
Of course, the problem with most of these debates is that liberal “journalists” pose as unbiased moderators. Thus, previous presidential debate moderators have included NBC News' Lester Holt, PBS's Gwen Ifill, ABC News' Martha Raddatz, CNN's Anderson Cooper, and NBC News' Kristen Welker. There is. None of these moderators can be considered fair, objective, or impartial.
All debates feature the same scenario, with the Republican presidential candidate competing against both his opponent and the moderator. For example, in 2012, CNN host Candy Crowley shockingly interjected on behalf of President Barack Obama to refute the exact points Republican candidate Mitt Romney was making about the Benghazi terrorists. The incident tilted the debate toward Obama.
Four years later, at the Democratic presidential primary debate between Hillary Clinton and Sen. Bernie Sanders, CNN political analyst Donna Brazile alerted the Hillary Clinton campaign to some of the questions that would be asked. It was an unwarranted intervention. After the revelations, Mr. Brazile was fired by CNN and expressed his regrets, but the episode shows how rigged presidential debates are.
Unfortunately, this year's two presidential debates will follow the same pattern. Republican candidate President Donald Trump is scheduled to debate both President Joe Biden and his host.
Last week, Trump and Biden agreed to participate in two presidential debates. The first show will be hosted by Jake Tapper and Dana Bash and will air on CNN on June 27th. The second debate will be moderated by David Muir and Lindsay Davis and will be televised on ABC on September 10th.
Unfortunately, none of these moderators are known for their impartiality or objectivity. All of them, especially Tapper and Bash, are liberal activists masquerading as journalists. Both networks were extremely unfair to Republicans, especially supporters of President Trump and his “Make America Great Again” (MAGA) agenda.
In fact, CNN has spent the past nine years trashing President Trump. We are currently reporting nonstop on the Trump Hush Money trial, similar to our coverage of the 1995 O.J. Simpson trial.
Not surprisingly, despite corrupt arrangements and biased hosts, President Trump is eager to debate his opponents. He said he was “ready and happy to discuss Crooked Joe over the two proposed dates in June and September.”
Trump said Biden was the “worst debater” he had ever faced and “by far the worst president in American history.” In typical Trump fashion, he downplayed Biden's limited mobility and cognitive abilities, quipping, “Let's see if Joe can get up to the podium…I'll provide the transportation.”
President Trump said in a speech to Minnesota Republican leaders on Friday that he would require Biden to take a “drug test” before the debate. This was a response to Biden's aggressive State of the Union address in March, in contrast to his usual disjointed speech filled with mumbling and rambling, in which he shouted, , was very active.
Unfortunately, Mr. Biden will not agree to drug testing or additional debates. President Trump had recommended more debates, including one on Fox News. But Biden hasn't been a guest on that network in years and won't risk doing so before this election. His campaign said, “The debate is over. No more games.''
The Biden campaign agreed to two debates solely because he was losing to Trump. According to Real Clear Politics' latest polling average (including third-party candidates), Trump leads by 2.8 percentage points.
Concerns about Biden's mental incompetence and inability to communicate effectively led his team to demand that the debate follow strict rules, including no audience. Their theory is that President Trump draws energy and thrives in front of an audience. One anonymous Biden adviser said, “Trump feeds on crowds, and crowds feed on him. We wanted to get rid of that.”
Another of Biden's stipulations included excluding Robert F. Kennedy Jr. from the debate. “Debates should be one-on-one, allowing voters to compare the only two candidates who statistically have a chance of winning the Electoral College,” the Biden campaign said in a statement about the debates. “We should not waste the candidates' debate time.” He has no hope of becoming president. ”
Recent polls show Kennedy doing more damage to Biden than Trump, and excluding him from the debate was a key element of their strategy.
“They are trying to remove me from debates because they are afraid I will win,” Kennedy said on social media. “Keeping strong candidates off the debate stage undermines democracy… By excluding Presidents Biden and Trump from discussing eight years of each other's failures, including deficits, wars, lockdowns, chronic disease, and inflation.
But it was Biden, not Trump, who wanted to remove Kennedy. President Trump said there is “no problem” with anyone, including Kennedy, as long as they meet a “threshold.” CNN requires candidates to have 15% support in at least four major polls and access to polling places in enough states to reach 270 electoral votes. Currently, Kennedy does not have enough votes, with his share of the vote falling below 15%. Regardless of his eligibility for the debate, Mr. Biden will insist on excluding Mr. Kennedy.
The Biden campaign also limited the number of television networks that can broadcast the debate to those that hosted debates in both 2016 and 2020. Finally, the campaign requested that candidates' microphones be muted after their allotted speaking time.
Despite Biden getting everything he wanted, President Trump remains confident, posting on Truth Social: “GET READY TO RUMBLE!!!”
