As President Biden and former President Trump gear up for the CNN debate moderated by Jake Tapper and Dana Bash, more criticism about the format is coming in, this time from Frank Fahrenkopf, the debate co-chairman of the Commission on Presidential Debates (CPD).
Thursday’s debate will be the first one in over 30 years not overseen by the CPD. Following the 2020 debates, the Biden campaign chose to go directly to CNN instead of the CPD for the 2024 debate.
Fahrenkopf told “The Hill’s Evening Report”:
I’m trying to be fair, I’m not judging yet, I want to watch and see. We developed a format that really works. If they came up with a format that gives the American people a solid view of the candidates, that’s great.
The co-chair has quite the experience, having overseen 33 presidential and vice presidential debates since 1988. He was not fond of CNN’s new…
