The Republican National Committee voted to step down from the Presidential Debate Committee, accusing the nonprofit of being “biased” toward Democratic candidates and refusing to undertake “simple and sensible” reforms. In a statement Thursday, announcing the unanimous vote, RNC chairman Rona McDaniel said: “We will find newer, better platforms for debate to ensure that future nominees are not forced to go through a biased CPD to protect the American people. ” Earlier on Thursday, The Wall Street Journal reported that the RNC would require its presidential candidates to promise to attend only party-approved debates. The CPD, formed as a bipartisan body in 1987, has sponsored debates in all of the 1988 presidential election. faith. ” In response, a CPD co-chair accused the RNC of wanting to “control things we are not ready to allow them to control.”
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