What Will Presidential Debates Look Like if GOP Quits Commission?

The Republican National Committee’s threat to prohibit the GOP’s presidential nominee from participating in what it contends is a series of “biased” face-offs sponsored by the Commission on Presidential Debates could completely upend a decades-old campaign tradition.

For more than 30 years, the nonprofit commission, which was created by the Republican and Democratic Parties to ensure debates were included as a fixture of presidential elections, has been responsible for organizing the televised debates.