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Wed Mar 6, 2019, 08:51 PM Mar 2019

Trump threatens to block networks from hosting debates after Dems reject Fox

President Trump on Wednesday responded to the Democratic National Committee refusing to let Fox News host a Democratic primary debate by threatening to “do the same thing” with other networks during the general election.

“Democrats just blocked @FoxNews from holding a debate. Good, then I think I’ll do the same thing with the Fake News Networks and the Radical Left Democrats in the General Election debates!” Trump tweeted Wednesday.

The president would alone would not have the power to prevent outlets from hosting a general election debate.

The Democratic and Republican National Committees work with media outlets on arrangements for hosting their respective primary debates. The Commission on Presidential Debates, which the DNC and RNC jointly sponsor, sets up the general election debates.

https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/432961-trump-threatens-to-block-networks-from-hosting-debates-after-dems

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Trump threatens to block networks from hosting debates after Dems reject Fox (Original Post) left-of-center2012 Mar 2019 OP
Maybe without rump we'll actually get some decent answers to ?s from the audience from the ... SWBTATTReg Mar 2019 #1
This adds another question to the debates: Baitball Blogger Mar 2019 #2

SWBTATTReg

(22,133 posts)
1. Maybe without rump we'll actually get some decent answers to ?s from the audience from the ...
Wed Mar 6, 2019, 09:22 PM
Mar 2019

candidates who do show up. F*** rump. I'm sick of his lies and anything he says anyway is a lie. Why listen to him in a debate? I'm glad that the DNC stopped the Faux bullshit...tampering w/ the debates and staging them to their benefit and to rump's benefit. Enough.

Baitball Blogger

(46,733 posts)
2. This adds another question to the debates:
Wed Mar 6, 2019, 09:31 PM
Mar 2019

Would you make an enemy list? And will you use the power of the executive branch against them?

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