It took Republican National Committee Co-Chair Lara Trump mere hours to deem the two presidential debates Donald Trump had just agreed to, “rigged.”
On Wednesday, the former president agreed to two debates with President Joe Biden. The first will be June 27 on CNN and the second will air Sept. 10 on ABC.
The debates will not have audiences and the candidate who is not recognized to speak will have his microphone cut, presumably to avoid a repeat of the first presidential debate of 2020, which was a debacle of the first order.
Sean Hannity spent the first 20 minutes of his Fox News show railing against the upcoming debates while demanding changes – such as “no notes, no teleprompter” – to the format agreed to by Trump, who had said last month he would debate Biden “any time, any place. We’ll do it any way you want, Joe.”
Lara Trump joined Hannity and curiously said that her father-in-law “called their bluff” by agreeing to what she would eventually call “rigged” debates.
“He called their bluff,” she insisted while noting “the scales are always tipped against” the former president.
“But this is the thing,” Hannity said. “They’re trying to collude. The media mob and Joe Biden, they dictate all the conditions, all the rules, and Donald Trump gets no say. Sorry, that’s not how it’
Hannity went on to criticize CNN’s Jake Tapper, who will co-moderate the June 27 debate with Dana Bash.
“It can’t work like that here,” the host continued. “It’s bad enough he’s agreed to go on two liberal networks.”
“I think you’re correct,” Lara Trump replied. “What Donald Trump has said is that he wants more debates.”
She later added:
It’s rigged so heavily in Joe Biden’s favor, but everything always is! You’ve got Hollywood against Donald Trump. You’ve got the music industry against Donald Trump. Mainstream media. Despite that and even the judicial system at this point, he is beating Joe Biden in every poll out there. It’s amazing to see. So, if Joe Biden shows up on June 27th and doesn’t come up with an excuse like he has to wash his hair or something, I have full confidence that Donald Trump will outperform him.
Biden and Trump were originally slated to have three debates in 2020, but had only two. After Trump was hospitalized with Covid-19, the Commission on Presidential Debates announced the second debate would be held virtually. However, Trump refused to participate and the event was canceled.
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