Presidential Debates 2016

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See Presidential Debates for a fascinating history.

Because term limits prevent the incumbent from running, the open seat has drawn a very large number of announced candidates for President in 2016. In part the participation by candidates have validated the legitimacy of the debates and the participation in the debates have validated individual candidates. The Republican National Committee organized a series of televised debates in partnership with various news organizations. Because 2012 resulted in an uncomfortable number of candidates remaining in the contest for the nomination longer than the RNC felt desirable, the RNC adopted a policy to reduce the number of participants based on their standings in national polls. The candidates who did not make the poll performance cut-off were allowed to participate in an "undercard" debate prior to the main dabate. When Carly Fiorina did not have sufficient support in the polls to make the main debate, the protests over excluding the only female candidate resulted in her being included in the main debate.

Debates are very costly to produce and televise. Sponsors, rather than the candidates campaigns, finance these costs. As a result, the rules and format are decided by the sponsors rather than the candidates.

The presidential debates 2016 are as follows:

Republican primary debates[edit]

The RNC was so unhappy with the debate that it removed NBC as the sponsor of the February 26 debate.

Donald Trump boycotted the debate because Fox News had issued a press release that insulted him. Trump also criticized Megyn Kelly as a biased debate moderator. The Fox press release read:

“ “We learned from a secret back channel that the Ayatollah and Putin both intend to treat Donald Trump unfairly when they meet with him if he becomes president – a nefarious source tells us that Trump has his own secret plan to replace the Cabinet with his Twitter followers to see if he should even go to those meetings.” ”
Instead, Trump held a fundraiser for veterans.[1] Trump together with candidates Mike Huckabee and Rick Santorum appeared at an event televised live on CNN, MSNBC and C-Span.[2]

This debate originally scheduled for February 26. The RNC replaced NBC with CNN as the sponsor and moved the date to February 25. This was as a protest to the questions posed by CNBC at the October 28 debate. Because of the pressure on the other candidates to prevent Donald Trump from locking in the nomination on Super Tuesday, March 1, the debate became a very nasty name-calling contest.

Although Ben Carson did not drop out officially until the next day, Carson opted to skip the debate.

The Republican National Committee had selected Fox News Channel to conduct an additional debate on March 21 in Salt Lake City, Utah ahead of the Utah and Arizona primaries. Fox proposed that Megyn Kelly would be one of the moderators. Trump refused to participate. Based on Trump's refusal, Kasich said he would not come, and then Cruz said that although he was willing to debate either one or both of them, he would not appear by himself.[3] Trump said in an interview, “I will say this. I think we’ve had enough debates. We’ve had 11 or 12 debates. I did really well on the last one. I think I’ve done well in all the debates. I mean, according to Drudge and everybody else, I have won the debates. But I think we’ve had enough how many times can the same people ask you the same question?"[4]

Democratic primary debates[edit]

General election debates[edit]

This schedule was set by the Commission on Presidential Debates long before any candidates were selected.

Analysis[edit]

The ability to persuade voters through debates has now been questioned.

References[edit]

  1. ↑ Donald Trump will boycott next Republican debate. The Guardian. Retrieved on February 15, 2016.
  2. ↑ "Donald Trump sidelined as rivals debate without Republican frontrunner", January 29, 2016. Retrieved on February 15, 2016. 
  3. ↑ "Fox News cancels GOP primary debate", March 16, 2016. Retrieved on March 17, 2016. 
  4. ↑ Trump: I Won’t Do FNC Debate on March 21 Due To AIPAC Speech, I Think We’ve Had Enough Debates (March 16, 2016). Retrieved on March 17, 2016.

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