Center for Competitive Democracy Warns CNN About its Debate Inclusion Criteria

On May 20, the Center for Competitive Democracy sent this letter to CNN, warning that corporations that sponsor candidate debates are breaking campaign finance laws if they don’t have objective criteria on who gets invited. The letter also points out that, so far, CNN’s criteria do not permit President Joe Biden or former President Donald Trump to qualify. Therefore, if CNN invites them anyway, it is not adhering to objective standards.


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Center for Competitive Democracy Warns CNN About its Debate Inclusion Criteria — 12 Comments

  1. Campaign finance laws say corporations can’t make donations to candidates. If there are no objective criteria, then CNN, a corporation, is illegally making a campaign contribution to Trump and Biden.

  2. Even if CNN does break campaign finance laws, what are the odds of them actually being held liable? CNN would get away with it, because nobody is going to bother.

  3. No law broken if Trump and Kennedy debate, Biden is invited but skips.

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