“Why Democrats Should Make Their Debates A Reality TV Show”
Why Democrats Should Make Their Debates A Reality TV Show
The field will be too large for party elders to manage. Now they must figure out how to maximize its impact, and the key to it is how the Democratic National Committee structures its debates.
By Brad Todd
Every week another Democrat announces the formation of a committee to run for president. Before you know it, the Senate will have difficulty getting a quorum east of Iowa because so many of its members are spending their days stumping there in advance of the first-in-the-nation caucuses next February. The field will be too large for party elders to manage, so they must figure out how to maximize its impact, and the key to it is how the Democratic National Committee structures its debates.
As a Republican strategist who lived through the GOP’s 16-candidate clown-car primary debates in 2016, I’d like to offer some advice for Democrats as they approach their own circus-train-sized field…
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