The 2024 presidential primary lacks debates due to Donald Trump’s refusal to participate, leading to no New Hampshire debates.
This absence reflects a broader trend of limited democracy in the election, with no real primary on the Democratic side and possibly the shortest Republican primary ever.
Both Trump and Biden have not debated, raising concerns about fighting for democracy without utilizing democratic processes.
“There were supposed to be two debates after Iowa and before the new Hampshire primary. Remember that? We all blocked it out on our calendars. We all planned to be here. This was one of the things that was going to happen,” Maddow said.
“It was awkward, because they were only a few days apart, but there are only eight days between Iowa and New Hampshire, but they were going to squeeze them in Two more chances for the candidates to make a final appeal to voters in New Hampshire before polls opened today.”
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“Did they happen? No, those debates did not happen because Donald Trump is refusing to debate this year. Nikki Haley said it would be pointless to hold another debate without Trump when, in her, words Ron Desantis was closer to zero than he was to her. So why would she bother talking to him? Sort of a fair point,” she said.
“But it does mean there were no New Hampshire debates at all. My in-laws live in New Hampshire, I have lots of family and lots of acquaintances in New Hampshire. I spend a lot of time in New Hampshire. I did not expect to hear this, but I did anecdotally hear a lot of people say they were mad there was no New Hampshire debates. The Republican primary debates, none of them included the frontrunner… Trump, but they were in Wisconsin and Florida and California. None of them were in New Hampshire because there were supposedly going to be these to the dedicated New Hampshire debates. Both of them off. So people were mad about it.”
“But more broadly, that is becoming kind of theme this year. More so than at any time since that Civil War, this is the election in which we’re deciding whether or not we’re gonna keep a democracy. But there is not very much democracy in this contest thus far. With an incumbent president, which is true anytime you have an incumbent president, there’s no real primary on Democratic side.”
“It might be the shortest primary ever on the Republican side, which is what we have been talking to Steve Kornacki about all night. Supporters of the frontrunner are emphatically demanding all people should clear out the field, so we can stop with all this darn voting. The voting is so offensive. We have not debate for the Democrat nominee, no debates for the likely Republican nominee. We’ve got possibly no general election debates at all.”
“Neither Trump or Biden has debated so far. Neither of them seems to want to. And why would they? We are in a fight to save democracy in this country, but for trying to fight for it without using democracy to fight for it. Which is, I don’t know. It feels historically unprecedented, but if there’s one thing we’ve learned, nothing is.”
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