June 1, 2026
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On April 14, the Republican National Committee announced its withdrawal from the Commission on Presidential Debates, which has monopolized “major party” debates since 1988. The RNC, claiming bias on the CPD’s part in selecting moderators, pledged to “find newer, better debate platforms.”…
For Immediate Release
Libertarian Party: CPD decides to make their first debates irrelevant
Libertarian National Committee Chair, Nicholas Sarwark, released this statement today:
In spite of polls showing that 54-76 percent of voters want Libertarian Gov.
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By Matt Welch, Reason.com, September 6th, 2016:
CNN/ORC this morning came out with its first national presidential poll in more than month, and the results are terrible for Gary Johnson’s fading hopes of getting into this fall’s presidential debates.
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Darryl W. Perry is an anarchist writer, radio talk show host and political activist who ran for the Libertarian Party’s 2016 presidential nomination. Perry presently serves as the vice-chair of the Libertarian Party of New Hampshire.…
For Immediate Release
Monday, September 5, 2016
Number of Debate Podiums Not Known
Libertarian Party Demands Fox New Cease and Desist
Alexandria The Libertarian Party releases this statement from Libertarian National Committee Political Director, Carla Howell:
“It has come to our attention that Fox News is running misleading ads for the first presidential debate scheduled for September 26, which show just two participants: Democrat Hillary Clinton and Republican Donald Trump.…
From Jill2016.com, September 2nd, 2016:
Here’s the story of how the elites deceived the American public:
1988 was a milestone year.
Up until then, the League of Women Voters impartially sponsored presidential debates.…
Posted to Breitbart
By Jason Scheurer
March 7, 2016
A lawsuit filed on September 26, 2015 in Washington D.C. (and its eventual outcome) may turn out to be the most important event of the 2016 presidential election.…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e5xTVSaSkZU…
In a Friday editorial, The Richmond Times-Dispatch called for changes to the current model of presidential general election debates, saying the “country has events that look like debates” but they are really “simultaneous news conferences…guaranteed to produce a focus on the trivial triumvirate of GGZ: gaffes, gotchas and zingers.”…
