Why are all the Presidential debates being scheduled in red states?

[still_one]

https://www.npr.org/sections/coronavirus-live-updates/2020/06/23/882032012/coronavirus-concerns-shift-presidential-debate-from-michigan-to-florida

[mucifer]

1. All I know is they are losing nascar. Every states has Black Lives Matter protests.

Maybe it's fine to have them all in the south

[soothsayer]

2. Except for high COVID-19 risk

They’re trying to kill Joe!

Seriously though, can we get a location that’s managing the outbreak?

[mucifer]

4. If there is no audience and he's masked up they should be fine.

[still_one]

5. +++

[still_one]

3. I just think they should be more balanced. I sure hope they don't have a live audience

[Igel]

20. If there's no audience

and the moderator's not local with only local questions, they could hold them all in some unidentified corn field with no great gain or loss in misperceived importance or sleight of dignity.

Or hold them all on Guam and vary the background of the reporters covering is, and say that the first half is in California and the second half is in Montana. Wouldn't matter. "Question 1 will be answered from Saipan, question 2 from Brooklyn, question 3 from Gallup, question 4 from Bozeman ..." Meh.

If there is an audience, Miami's audience can be as blue or red or purpose or turquoise as the audience any place else.

[LizBeth]

6. They are the only fools that will do it with covid19?

[LonePirate]

7. I think that is the answer. The Debate Commission seems to want a live audience for the debates.

Only southern (red) states are open to the idea of having a few hundred people crammed indoors with the two candidates.

[still_one]

10. A live audience is insane

[ProfessorGAC]

18. It Would Be Quashed In Some

Governor would not allow an attended event in phase 3 here.
50 people maximum. Outdoors, no limit if social distancing is maintained.
Beaches on Lake Michigan are closed. Marinas just opened, but no hanging out. Just access to one's boat.
No way Illinois would host one unless it was 3 cameras, distant moderator, and the candidates.
TV would hate that.

[spanone]

8. Florida is becoming the new epicenter....

[pamdb]

9. UofM

University of Michigan was supposed to have one but backed out due to
Covid plus trying to get ready for fall classes, trying to decide if or how many person classes they would have. Important stuff like that. You can hold a
debate anywhere.

Frankly, I don't think they should have a debate with an audience, just Bunker Boy, Biden, and moderators and camera crew. You don't need an audience.

[still_one]

11. +++

[BamaRefugee]

12. WHY are there even debates? The choice is already crystal clear, Biden or Satan. And all the "policy

talk" in the world is meaningless, the first 2 years of the Biden Administration will just be 24 hours a day of cleaning up the mess that was left to him, along with, hopefully, daily perp walks of trumpers being taken to prison.

There will NOT be any money for Biden to do anything with, the US Treasury will be RANSACKED long before he gets sworn in.

[brooklynite]

13. Indiana is "southern"?

[still_one]

15. Let me rephrase that, red states

[bdamomma]

14. Republican majority?

perhaps.

[fierywoman]

16. To discuss their ideas they could do facetime or zoom. Why threaten the well-being of

other human beings?

[still_one]

19. +++

[librechik]

17. just a guess but Republicans own all the venues

sad but true, more or less.