Republicans May Nuke the 2024 Presidential Debate Process

In the fall of 2020, after spending his first debate yelling over opponent Joe Biden and possibly exposing him to the coronavirus, Donald Trump refused to participate in the second event of the presidential cycle, arguing that forcing him to appear virtually would be “ridiculous.” He’d go on to debate Biden one more time, a somewhat more subdued affair, but not before attacking moderator Kristen Welker—and the process itself—as “extraordinarily unfair.” He similarly groused after the first 2016 debate that moderator Lester Holt asked him “very unfair” questions. Like so many of Trump’s petty gripes, this notion, that the debate… Read Full Article