Boston Globe: “Maybe pencil in the dates, but don’t write it down with a permanent marker.”
“Coming up with dates, times and a television partner is the easy part. Agreeing to everything else, including who will moderate, could be very thorny especially when it is two campaigns in direct negotiations. Before the commission would just tell the candidates how the debates would be run and who would moderate.”
“These agreed-upon debates could go haywire for any number of reasons.”
“Among those skeptical these debates will happen? The Biden campaign. Jen O’Malley Dillon, the Biden-Harris campaign chair, issued a statement in the afternoon noting that Trump has pulled out of debates for all kinds of reasons the last three years.”
For members: There’s Still a Good Chance Debates Never Happen