Will Presidential Debates Fall Through in 2024?

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🗓️ 24 November 2023

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The Commission on Presidential Debates announces its dates and venues for 2024, but the GOP has already voted not to participate, Joe Biden might be looking for an escape, and what if Robert F. Kennedy Jr. makes the cut? Plus, Democrats go after the Spanish-language TV network Univision for an interview of Donald Trump that they say was too soft by journalist Enrique Acevedo. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:16.0	From the opinion pages of the Wall Street Journal,
0:22.0	this is Potomac Watch. The Commission on Presidential
0:27.2	on Presidential Debates sets the dates and terms for its 2024 TV events but will
0:32.3	anybody show up to debate next year?
0:34.6	Plus, Democrats Browbeat Univision for doing a friendly interview with Donald Trump.
0:39.6	Welcome, I'm Kyle Peterson with the Wall Street Journal.
0:42.8	We are joined today by my colleagues,
0:44.9	columnist Kim Strassal, and editorial board member
0:48.3	of Manet Uqué Berua.
0:50.4	Since 1988, the general election presidential debates, the terms of them have been set by the
0:56.2	non-profit, nonpartisan Commission on presidential debates.
1:01.7	And on Monday, it set forth the rules, the dates, the places that it intends to hold those.
1:08.0	One starting in September 16, 2024 in Texas, the last one October 9th 2024 in Salt Lake City, Utah, and explaining
1:18.8	the terms of how candidates are supposed to qualify for those.
1:22.9	Kim, one thing that makes us interesting, though,
1:24.8	is the Republican Party has already
1:27.1	signaled that it does not think that the Commission did a great job
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