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[BigTex]

SAN MARCOS, Texas - The Commission on Presidential Debates (CPD) has canceled its plans to have the first 2024 Presidential Debate at Texas State University.

Texas State University officials said they were informed by CPD about canceling its plans on Monday, June 24. According to TXST, all the planned 2024 debates by CPD have been canceled.

The event was originally scheduled to take place on the university's campus on Sept. 16.

https://www.fox7austin.com/news/texas-s ... ial-debate

[BigTex]

Statement on CPD's 2024 General Election Debates
June 24, 2024 contact: media@debates.org
The Board of the non-partisan Commission on Presidential Debates (CPD) today regrettably announced that the four sites selected to host its 2024 debates have been released from their contracts. The four campuses which had prepared to host the debates are:
Texas State University, San Marcos, TX, first presidential debate, September 16, 2024
Lafayette College, Easton, PA, vice presidential debate, September 25, 2024
Virginia State University, Petersburg, VA, second presidential debate, October 1, 2024
University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, third presidential debate, October 9, 2024
CPD Co-Chairs Antonia Hernández and Frank Fahrenkopf stated that, “Given the letter dated May 15, 2024 from Jen O’Malley Dillon, Campaign Chair for the Biden-Harris Campaign, in which the Biden-Harris Campaign informed the Commission that President Biden will not agree to debate under the sponsorship of the Commission during the 2024 general election campaign, it is unfair to ask the four campuses to continue to prepare for their debates, as they have been doing since their November, 2023 selection. We are grateful to the sites, and we are sorry to come to this decision. We are dismayed that students of the four campuses will not have the opportunity to participate in these historic voter education forums.”

Since its founding in 1987, the CPD has held thirty of its thirty-three debates on college or university campuses. Given the educational purpose of debates, institutions of higher learning have been logical venues and have afforded thousands of students the chance to participate in production, curricular additions and community debate-related projects.

Hernández and Fahrenkopf noted that the CPD stands ready to sponsor 2024 debates should circumstances change. “The reason for the CPD’s creation remains compelling: a neutral organization with no other role during the general election is well-positioned to offer formats that focus on the candidate and the issues that are most important to the American people.”

The CPD’s debates have traditionally been broadcast by the White House Pool, with coverage by a broad range of domestic and international media. The debates run for 90 minutes, without commercial breaks. Starting in 2012, the CPD’s debates have been divided into six 15-minute pods, each devoted to a major issue selected and announced ahead of time by the moderator. These pods allow for a detailed discussion of the issues without interruption to enforce time limits for answers, responses, rebuttals and surrebuttals. Since 1992, the debates have also included a town meeting, in which citizens get to directly ask questions of the candidates, the format most popular with the public.

The CPD is a non-profit 501(c)(3) organization that also works with NGOs in more than forty countries to start or enhance leadership debates; see debatesinternational.org for more information.

https://debates.org/2024/06/24/cpd-statement/index.html

[Mark]

This year's debates are wholly owned and organized by the Democrat party and it's propaganda machine.

[BigTex]

I feel pretty sure the narrative going forward from Thursday's debate has been written. They are using this debate to harvest Trump sound bites that will be feasted on by CNN, MSNBC, The View, etc. and will be used in campaign ads. Doesn't matter if the sound bites are taken out of context. They've already shown that they are willing to play that game. The Biden campaign will declare that Trump's demeanor in the debate cannot be tolerated and therefore there will be no more debates.

The Trump campaign will undoubtedly make use of Biden sound bites, but I doubt Trump has any desire to create a pretext for backing out of debates.

That's my guess.

[Sangersteve]

Around 56% of the Issues & Insights poll voters said they either didn’t approve or were unsure of CNN as the network host for the first presidential debate. The polling gets worse when one looks at the debate hosts Tapper and Bash, both longtime critics of Trump and his supporters.

As one of CNN’s top media personalities, Tapper has used his platform to push the Russian collusion hoax and frequently referenced Adolf Hitler when speaking about Trump or his policies. So it’s not shocking that Americans would have such a low opinion of the elite media stooge. Only 30% of voters gave Tapper a positive score, while 75% voted unsure or unfavorable.

[BigTex]

IMO, moderator bias is not a concern because CNN thinks they are doing the Lord's work to stop Hitler.