Shouldn't the presidential candidate be the one to decide whether they will do debates

[LiberalFighter]

instead of the political party?

[Eliot Rosewater]

1. They are kowtowing to traitor and they will do more of that in Nov

when red states will refuse to certify ANY and ALL elections they lose.

BAD days ahead.

[zipplewrath]

8. Exactly

2020 was merely a "dry run" to find out what laws needed to be changed/created to allow them to dictate winners and losers regardless of the voters.

[Crunchy Frog]

9. Yup. I'm not optimistic.

[JohnSJ]

2. I think they are concerned they will be called out for their hypocrisy and pro-

insurrection stance

[MacKasey]

3. Why don't they go back to the league of women voters who used to run the debates

[SmallFry]

4. They mainly talked about the issues.

Set it up with rules that fomented somewhat honest debate without instigating. At the end of the debate you probably didn’t even remember much about the moderator.

Who wants that?

[former9thward]

5. Both parties did not want the League to do it.

They wanted more control. So they jointly set up the Debate Commission. The Commission was normally made up of ex-DNC and ex-RNC Chairs.

[TheProle]

11. Yep it is a corporation designed to protect the status quo

[thecrow]

12. Because the RNC basically hates women?

[former9thward]

6. The nominated candidates will decide.

When the candidates are nominated by either party the candidate controls the political party -- not the other way around. If someone wants to do a debate in some format and both candidates agree then that is what will happen.

[zipplewrath]

7. Yup

This just provides "cover" to someone who tries to avoid them.

[former9thward]

10. True but no one really avoids them.

People said Trump would not debate and he did. They way the debates are presently structured they are not debates at all. They are simply dueling press conferences. I would like to see a Lincoln-Douglass format. Candidate A speaks for 1/2 hour. Candidate B speaks and asks questions of A for a 1/2 hour. Then A does the same and so on. No need for a panel or "moderator".