{"id":51785,"date":"2022-01-13T12:45:13","date_gmt":"2022-01-13T20:45:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=51785"},"modified":"2023-11-21T09:20:29","modified_gmt":"2023-11-21T17:20:29","slug":"cowardly-republican-party-to-require-their-presidential-candidates-to-boycott-2024-debates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=51785","title":{"rendered":"Cowardly Republican Party to Require Their Presidential Candidates to Boycott 2024 Debates"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With the 2024 presidential election still nearly three years away, the Republican Party is already showing signs that they are afraid of engaging in a free and open discourse with their Democratic opponent. Never mind that they have spent two years maligning President Biden as <em>&#8220;sleepy&#8221;<\/em> and mentally unfit, it is the GOP that appears to be concerned about their own candidate&#8217;s ability to face off in an open forum.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/Pix\/Trump\/trump-loser-emoji-e1571261064815.jpg\" alt=\"Donald Trump\" width=\"550\" height=\"295\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-36578\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The fear exhibited by the Republican Party is well warranted considering that their leading candidate is Donald Trump. For the past year Trump has been obsessively fixated on his having suffered a humiliating loss to Biden in 2020. It&#8217;s the only thing he talks about, despite having failed for more than a year &#8211; and sixty court cases &#8211; to provide a shred of evidence of his claims that the election was <em>&#8220;rigged.&#8221;<\/em> It is what fueled his deadly January 6th insurrection. And <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=51712\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">he is still twisting reality<\/a><\/strong> to insist that the <em>\u201creal insurrection\u201d<\/em> was on Election Day, November 3rd, 2020.<\/p>\n<p>Consequently, the Republican National Committee (RNC) has announced that they intend to prohibit their Party&#8217;s candidate in 2024 from participating in the presidential debates that have been hosted for three decades by the bipartisan Commission on Presidential Debates (CPD). The RNC <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/f\/?id=0000017e-5478-d8d6-a3fe-f7f9b0210000\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">sent a letter<\/a><\/strong> to the Commission stating that&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;[T]he RNC will initiate the process of amending the Rules of the Republican Party at our upcoming Winter Meeting to prohibit future Republican nominees from participating in CPD-sponsored debates.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Make no mistake about it. This is not a quarrel over some rationally disputed format differences. The RNC&#8217;s <em>&#8220;reforms&#8221;<\/em> are all driven by complaints that crybaby Trump made in 2020 due to his cognitive inadequacies and inability to engage in a substantive dialogue. He proved that during the debates when he couldn&#8217;t refrain from interrupting and had to be told by Biden to <em>&#8220;Shut up, man.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The Republican National Committee is obviously scared, so they&#8217;re issuing ludicrous ultimatums if they don&#8217;t get their way. But the RNC&#8217;s proposals are intrusive and one-sided. They would impose on the neutrality of the Commission by impacting the composition of its members, dictating the dates of the debates, intervening in the selection of debate moderators, and enacting punishments for violations of the terms that the RNC is insisting on.<\/p>\n<p>Clearly the RNC is doing this on Trump&#8217;s behalf. No other candidate has objected to the CPD&#8217;s rules or fairness for thirty years. But the RNC is worried that without these reforms Trump would likely embarrass himself again, and he and the RNC know that. He has demonstrated that he cannot face any encounter that isn&#8217;t rigged to his advantage. It&#8217;s why he won&#8217;t submit to any interviews that aren&#8217;t conducted by his pals at Fox News or other similarly servile sycophants. He is mortally afraid of being challenged.<\/p>\n<p>Trump recently <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=51712\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">canceled a phony <em>&#8220;news&#8221;<\/em> conference<\/a><\/strong> that he planned to hold on the anniversary of the January 6th insurrection. He also <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=51383\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">chickened out of his own challenge to debate<\/a><\/strong> any takers on his bogus claims about the 2020 election. And now he is directing his Republican Party apparatchiks to protect him from having to engage in an open and fair debate. It&#8217;s the coward&#8217;s way and, therefore, Trump&#8217;s way.<\/p>\n<p><strong>UPDATE: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=52584\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">RNC Doubles Down on Cowardice, Cancels Debates to Shield Snowflake Trump From More Humiliation<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"color:blue;\"><strong>NOTE:<\/strong> Twitter suspended the News Corpse account after 11 years without giving a reason. 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Never mind that they have spent two years maligning President Biden as &#8220;sleepy&#8221; and mentally unfit, it is the GOP that appears [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":36578,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[152,1,1200],"tags":[554,1140,377,301,397],"class_list":["post-51785","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-election","category-general","category-politics","tag-donald-trump","tag-election","tag-joe-biden","tag-republicans","tag-rnc"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/..\/Pix\/Trump\/trump-loser-emoji-e1571261064815.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4Ijg-dtf","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":61172,"url":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=61172","url_meta":{"origin":51785,"position":0},"title":"Sean Hannity of Fox News is Already Making Excuses for Why Trump Will Lose Debates to Biden","author":"Mark NC","date":"4\/27\/2024","format":false,"excerpt":"The 2024 presidential election continues unfold amidst the spectacle of one of the candidates being tried on multiple felony charges of election interference and campaign finance fraud. 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