Edit to add:

PBS, C-SPAN, heck even the Voice of America has been doing quality video work lately.

I'm sure the Federal Election Commission can figure it out.

I think commercial entities have done debates for decades. It definitely used to be unaffiliated groups that did the debates before then.

with the woman’s league of voters. I thought it was very good. Perhaps having the group do the debates again would improve the entire process.

...but I think having the FEC take authority over it would be more appropriate (that is, if the FEC is still doing it's job correctly).

They did a good job.

used to conduct debates until recently.

Yes, non-profit sponsors would be better.

Same rules as last debate, and accept only on the condition that Trump agree to a debate on MSNBC in October moderated by Rachel and Lawrence.

Keep tRump stewing.

Maybe state that she will "almost certainly" accept but only later. Keep magas fuming.

In the shuffling madness
Of the locomotive breath
Runs the all-time loser
Headlong to his death
Oh, he feels the piston scraping
Steam breaking on his brow
Old Charlie stole the handle
And the train it won't stop
Oh no way to slow down
He sees his children jumping off
At the stations one by one
His woman and his best friend
In bed and having fun
Oh, he's crawling down the corridor
On his hands and knees
Old Charlie stole the handle
And the train it won't stop going
No way to slow down
Hey
He hears the silence howling
Catches angels as they fall
And the all-time winner
Has got him by the balls
Oh, he picks up Gideons bible
Open at page one
I think God he stole the handle
And the train it won't stop going
No way to slow down
No way to slow down
No way to slow down

and TSF will get sick for the 2nd debate.

“The most incredible ear spurs”

Which would probably be a true statement.

“You might mishear a question about the economy as one about sharks”

Felons have to sit in the Cone of Silence from "Get Smart."

I thought it was just cable.

They are not regulated like the networks. ABC, CBS, and NBC. The B is for broadcasting, Shit is not as crazy there
MSNBC is cable but uses the letter B like CNN use the letter N . It is confusing, yes. .

Our candidate should neither participate nor show support in any way for Fox news. They've brought only lies and hate since their inception. Why participate at all if they are involved?

Seriously, why give them the time of day? I'm pretty sure it would be an easy case to make that they are criminally involved in a conspiracy to undermine the legitimacy of the US government. We need to get this "fomenting insurrection" thing ironed out soon or we'll be haunted by it for decades. People are beginning to actually swallow the idea that Jan 6 was a legitimate function of governance. If Trump wins don't be surprised if it's declared a new national holiday.

Where it hurts the most.

Fox has been proven to be un-reliable for exhibiting Bias in everything they do..........

Microphone cut off, penalty for talking over your time or during the other's talking

No stalking around the stage like he did with Hillary

No audience to clap, boo, scream, yell etc......

go with the mic's off again. Also if trump just bloviates and not answer the questions, his mic should be turned off. Then he should be given another chance to answer the question. If he doesn't, then they should move on to Harris. trump should not be allowed to attack and lie ignoring the questions like last time.

If it were me, that would be a hard, very hard, no.

Not sure how but, from their past, I suspect Fox News would somehow "bend" the debate toward Trump.

. . . and go in with guns blazing, tear the goddam place apart. Metaphorically, of course.

It should be PBS, or a public network like nbc or abc. No CNN either (Faux News wanabe).

half the battle. Look at Gettysburg.

Don't let the obvious opposition choose the ground.

Debate should only be from neutral organizations.

Decline the invite.the felon doesn’t run the show unless we let him.

She's not obliged to agree to Biden's commitment.

This is Dodge City poker with guns under the table and aces up the sleeve, not contract bridge.

Maybe League Of Women Voters running it in California?

I live there and the Magat campaign ads are non stop.

Magats already have anti-Kamala ads running.

Do not debate a liar, whatever your answer he will have another lie already ready. When talking with a liar you are entering their reality.

Not like the others are much better but Fox, really ?

That will dampen Faux's pathetic ploy.

I hope the Harris campaign tells Fox "News" (proven liars) to fuck off.

Do the Fox News deal, IF Trump agrees to a debate moderated by the great journalist Amy Goodman.

Either/or.

If he wants Fox News so bad, then he should accept a Goodman moderated debate.

The questions will be all southern border, inflation, why didn't you warn us about Biden and nothing concerning Trump's character. The only way I would do it, is if it was with no moderators. Just let the candidates go two or three minutes at a time and shut off the mic on the one who isn't talking. Maybe they could compromise and use News Nation after agreeing on the moderators.

And make the demands public. If they don't agree to her demands, politely say "no". DO NOT trust Fox

Tell Fox News where they can go shove it!

And add: "I don't watch hosts who want to take us backward to a time women who pay taxes today would no longer have the right to vote and be submissive to a government telling them they don't have the right to do what they want with their own body and what their Doctor recommends they should do."

To town halls on college campuses. Make sure one is a HBCU. Emphasize the future because we are not going back.

for Trump to weasel out of the fair debate with ABC IMHO.

While debates can be entertaining. This is clearly not the purpose. Lets inform the citizenry somewhere else.

I would add a no to Lester Holt at ABC

is the case many discuss. It was a defamation case over something Tucker said on his show. Fox asserted that "Mr. Carlson cannot be understood to have been stating facts" - which I think is what folks interpreted as Fox admitting that not everything on its shows is factual, as one would expect on a "news" network.

Maybe there are other cases out there, but this one was discussed a lot and I think that's where the assertion comes from.

It's morphed over time into various similar claims.

https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/fox-news-entertainment-switch/

NO! Not on Fox News!!!!!!!!!!

"Prosecutors don't debate convicted felons", although it is probably best to do the debate.

IT'S A TRAP!

Monster. I don’t trust fox one bit. Don’t do it Kamala!

I think Kamala should agree to it with no audience.

(She would destroy Stinky in any debate, even if it were on Faux News)

and only if the Sept. 10 debate date is kept.
and if fact checkers will respond in real time in a crawler.
and if Fox cuts the microphones after minutes of response to questions.
and one mod is from Fox, the other from PBS.
"Fair and Balanced"

The 18th is when the judge in NY hands down his sentencing for Trump.

Fox is nothing but a propaganda machine for the GOP?

Certainly dont give FOX the ratings boost until or unless more favorable outlets are also given a chance..

...he would debate Kamala ONLY On FOX News, and he would set the rules.

only deal with legitimate news organizations, thus no Fox News, OAN...

Thanks but no thanks!

do debates again.
Profit networks have blown it over and over.

It would be appropriate for Harris to ask for that.

They're not a real news network, just a propaganda arm of the republican party.

the day before donnie's sentencing from Merchan?

There’s no point to it. She’s riding high. We are looong past ideas, policies, and ideology. This is about zingers, lies, & propaganda.

And thats the ONLY way they should do it. NO audience & muted mics.
Maybe enclose trump in a glass cubicle

They lie, cheat, &steal. Their word doesn’t mean shit. This is not politics as usual.

I am going to make a very unpopular statement: ideas, policies, data, facts…none of it matters to republicans. I have listened to groups of republicans talk and what they value are one line zingers, insults, and pettiness. They thrive on blood. They absolutely do not care if you are competent or not. They do not care about decorum nor do they care about the law.

The old days where we can debate ideas are over. There is no debate when the other side is rabid. You can’t debate rabid.

Kamala Harris' mike much much softer than Trump's.

Cameras on Trump when Harris is speaking

All sorts of shenanigans.

... then, FOX can label their podiums "White" and "Colored" - just so they know where they stand with FOX "News"

Maybe Martha McCallum with him. Or Cavuto. But no one else.

They have only one agenda: to help Donald Trump. It will be nothing but "gotcha" questions for Harris and softball questions for Trump.

He doesn't debate. Why should she waste her time?

She's be better off at a campaign stop. Don't they have one on ABC in September? He'll go up there and do his schitck, act like an aged gorilla and we waste 90 minutes. No one said at the first debate"you didn't answer the question". No one will with one at Fox. Debates are really a waste of time.

He lies, doesn't accept accountability. And yet if she refuses he'll call her a chicken, but hey why should she waste her time with this POS.

In this modern age, with television, social media, vast Internet sites, what's the point? If people aren't paying attention, letting Trump yell at her/over her on FOX isn't going to help. Our media is so fucking against us, going into the enemy camp is a losing idea. Our "liberal" media, like MSNBC can't be trusted, much less FOX.

Get stuff out on Tik Tok, that's how you'll win over the young people. Go where they are. It's not at home watching network TV, or even cable. They stream stuff on their phones, for gods' sakes.

I'd have nothing to do with them.

Lost the right to any debate when it defamed election workers and civil servants in the last election. Lies need consequences not rewards.

They will try to twist and distort her every answer. Their only fans are racists, and misogynists(which include women who hate themselves). Nothing to be gained by it as nobody who watches that shit has a brain left to be saved.

Bring back League of Women Voters as managers. Otherwise, it’ll be a horrific display of the worst in politics.

CSPAN has always had their "Road to the White House" series and I think they probably deferred to The Commission on Presidential Debates, which has been sponsoring and setting up the venues for these debates for the past 36 years.

TCPD had this year's debates already pre-planned and scheduled, and that whole thing was completely rejected by the candidates, as some news orgs jumped in, and hijacked the process.

* But at this point, IMHO, the whole idea of a "debate" is now meaningless because they were an artifact of a time before any type of electronic broadcast (radio, film, television, internet) was available and you either had to go to witness one "in person" or read about it in a newspaper or magazine.

Nowadays, we have 24/7 coverage of the candidates and their positions, so it's not like there will be anything "new" to be gained. That leaves these events as nothing more than a "talent show" that elevates "style" over any type of "substance", because even "real-time fact-checking" is not enough once the lies are out there.