Trump Campaigns Sends Letter to Debate Commission Suggesting They “Rethink and Reissue” Upcoming Debate Topics

KEMBERLEE KAYE OCT 19, 2020 5:00 PM

On Monday, the Trump campaign sent a letter to the presidential debate commission, which they called the “Biden Debate Commission,” suggesting they “rethink and reissue” the debate discussion topics in the last presidential debate scheduled for next week.

Letter here:

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President Trump’s campaign manager sent a two-page letter on Monday to the Commission on Presidential Debates, asking the committee to “rethink and reissue” the topics that will be discussed during this week’s upcoming presidential debate in Nashville.

“For the good of campaign integrity, and for the benefit of the American people, we urge you to rethink and reissue a set of topics for the October 22 debate with an emphasis on foreign policy,” Bill Stepien tweeted on Monday.

As Stepien noted, the upcoming debate topics included fighting COVID-19, American families, National Security, Leadership, Climate Change, and Race in America. “The topics announced by Kristen Welker … are serious and worthy of discussion, but only a few of them even touch on foreign policy,” Stepien said.The campaign said that the Commission on Presidential Debates had committed to making foreign policy the central focus on the debate. The commission did not immediately respond to Fox News’ request for comment.Stepien further accused the commission of adding to a broader pattern of “pro-Biden antics.” “The Commission’s pro-Biden antics have turned the entire debate season into a fiasco and it is little wonder why the public has lost its faith in objectivity,” Stepien said.His letter came shortly after C-SPAN suspended one of its anchors, Steve Scully, the second debate moderator who admitted to lying about a tweet he sent to former top Trump aide and vocal critic of the president Anthony Scaramucci. That debate was eventually cancelled as Trump refused to take part in the virtual format imposed by the commission.Besides Scully, questions have risen surrounding Welker’s ties to Democrats. The New York Post reported on Saturday that Welker “comes from an established Democratic family — who have poured cash into party coffers, and to Trump opponents, for years.” According to the Post, Welker’s parents donated $3,300 to Biden’s 2020 campaign.

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