The RNC took far too long in doing this. They should have voted to withdraw after the CNN Candy Crowley/Mitt Romney 2012 debate debacle.
. . ."Republican nominees have often cried foul over the bias existent in the commission, including former President Donald J. Trump. So, the fact that the RNC is now kicking the commission to the curb is no big surprise. Legacy media has been slipping into irrelevancy for years, hastened further by their collusion with the Democrats and government in pushing pandemic lies. Why watch a debate on a channel you do not trust with moderators whom you cannot stand? Free of the formalities of this commission, any presidential candidate can simply go on Joe Rogan’s podcast or Bill Maher’s HBO show Real Time, reach way more people, and be done with it.
"In January, the RNC wrote a letter to the Commission asking them to commit to certain parameters:
- To hold a debate before the start of early voting.
- To not hold any matchups after the deadline for mailing absentee ballots to military personnel and overseas voters.
- To enact term limits for the commission board members.
- To ban partisan political activity by officials and staffers of the commission.
"Former Missouri Sen. John Danforth is the poster child for these last two points. A so-called Republican, in 2020 Danforth famously took to The Washington Post, CNN, and other outlets to denounce then-sitting president Donald Trump and decry that he was not a Republican.
"Danforth has been on the Commission on Presidential Debates for 26 years.". . .