Move comes after longstanding complaints from party that the non-partisan Commission on Presidential Debates favors Democrats
that Trump tested positive for Covid before the first debate but concealed the result, potentially putting Biden’s life in danger.
Trump said that was fake news. So did his former chief of staff Mark Meadows – who wrote the book which contained the bombshell. The Times said the Republican move against the CPD was born of longstanding complaints that it favors Democrats, “mirroring increasing rancor from conservatives toward Washington-based institutions”.
Among Republican complaints in 2020 was that the first debate took place on 29 September, more than a month before election day but after nearly a million votes had been cast. Trump and Republicans also complained about supposed bias among debate moderators – even from Chris Wallace, then of the conservative Fox News network, in the first debate.The threatened withdrawal from CPD debates, the Times said, followed “months of discussions between the commission and party officials”.
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