Election 2024: Biden and Trump bypassed the Commission on Presidential Debates
Time:2024-05-21 19:31:02 Source:entertainmentViews(143)
PHOENIX (AP) — The nonpartisan Commission on Presidential Debates, which has planned presidential faceoffs in every election since 1988, has an uncertain future after President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump struck an agreement to meet on their own.
The Biden and Trump campaigns announced a deal Wednesday to meet for debates in June on CNN and September on ABC. Just a day earlier, Frank Fahrenkopf, chair of the Commission on Presidential Debates, had sounded optimistic that the candidates would eventually come around to accepting the commission’s debates.
“There’s no way you can force anyone to debate,” Fahrenkopf said in a virtual meeting of supporters of No Labels, which has continued as an advocacy group after it abandoned plans for a third-party presidential ticket. But he noted candidates have repeatedly toyed with skipping debates or finding alternatives before eventually showing up, though one was canceled in 2020 when Trump refused to appear virtually after he contracted COVID-19.
Previous:With Djokovic awaiting the winner, Murray trails Hanfmann at rain
Next:Ohio judge to rule Monday on whether the state’s abortion ban stands
You may also like
- College baseball notebook: Conference tournaments to decide NCAA automatic bids and many at
- Paying college athletes appears closer than ever. How could it work and what stands in the way?
- Harper homers, Wheeler strikes out 11 as Phillies complete 4
- Two suspects arrested in fatal shooting on Delaware college campus are not students, police say
- Storms damage homes in Oklahoma and Kansas. But in Houston, most power is restored
- Can yogurt reduce the risk of Type 2 diabetes?
- These 15 AP photos capturing migrants' struggle were honored with a Pulitzer Prize
- Palace rout demoralized Man United 4
- Strictly star Giovanni Pernice's former partner Rose Ayling