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President Trump’s campaign is considering only participating in general election debates if an outside firm serves as the host, and his advisers recently sat down with the nonprofit Commission on Presidential Debates to complain about the debates it hosted in 2016.

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Noting that the debate hall capacity and tickets are managed by the Commission on Presidential Debates, Father Jenkins indicated a lottery system will be used to select the students who will receive Notre Dame’s tickets. A specific ticket number was not announced.

The only thing better about the latest presidential debate was having fewer people on the stage. Other than that, the evening was, for the most part, a rehash of the candidates’ previously stated positions, an upright tweet-fest. It is time to re-format presidential debates — if not to junk the

Presidential hopefuls seeking to take part in the debate will be able to qualify by meeting a “Delegate Threshold.” To do so, they must have been allocated at least one pledged delegate to the Democratic National Convention based on the results of the Iowa caucuses on February 3. Those results are

So far just five candidates (Biden, Buttigieg, Klobuchar, Sanders, and Warren) have met the Democratic National Committee’s more stringent polling and fundraising criteria for participation.

“[The candidates] deserve a lot of credit because the debate is a really valuable tool for them to reach out to the nation, and yet they were willing to stand by 150 workers who were trying to win livable wages and affordable healthcare,” says Susan Minato, executive vice president of Unite Here

Only 5 candidates, so far, have qualified for the next debate, which will be held on Jan. 14 in Des Moines.

Trump also essentially confirmed a New York Times piece that he is weighing whether to skip the 2020 debates based on concern about the fairness of the moderators.

President Trump threatened to pull out of a system of presidential campaign debates that has been in place for more than three decades and accused the nonpartisan commission that oversees them of bias.

President Donald Trump made clear Monday that he intends to participate in at least three general election debates, but he is threatening to sidestep the nonprofit group charged with running them.

The letter, sent to the DNC Saturday afternoon, is signed by Booker, Castro and all seven presidential candidates who have already qualified for the December debate. It urges the committee to alter its debate qualifications for the January and February debates in a way that would allow Booker and