Former Presidential Candidate Bob Dole Calls Debate Commission Biased as GOP Members Don’t Support Trump
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Former Kansas Senator and Republican presidential candidate Bob Dole alleged on Friday that the Committee on Presidential Debates (CPD) was biased in favor of Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden.
President Donald Trump, who took part in a contentious debate with Biden in October, has made claims that the CPD has attempted to pivot the debate process against him. Trump rejected the CPD’s plan to re-format the second debate as a virtual event because of Trump’s recent COVID-19 diagnosis. Bob Dole took to Twitter on Friday to criticize the CPD’s perceived Democratic leanings.
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“The Commission on Presidential Debates is supposedly bipartisan w/ an equal number of Rs and Ds. I know all of the Republicans and most are friends of mine.” Dole tweeted. “I am concerned that none of them support @realDonaldTrump. A biased Debate Commission is unfair.”
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Newsweek reached out to the CPD for comment.
During an interview with Sean Hannity on Fox News Thursday, Trump called the CPD a “joke” while flatly rejecting the idea of a virtual debate.
“I’m not Joe Biden,” Trump said. “I’m not gonna do a virtual debate and sit behind a computer screen.”
This is a breaking story and will be updated as information becomes available.
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