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Related: About this forumWho Would Host a Trump-Sanders Debate? ‘We Have Heard from Every Network’ (Bidding War)
http://www.adweek.com/tvnewser/who-would-host-a-trump-sanders-debate-we-have-heard-from-every-network/294579Its entirely unclear if Donald Trump and Bernie Sanders really plan on debating each other, but this much is certain: if they do, the news networks are lining up for the chance to host the show.
In an interview with CNNs Wolf Blitzer, Sanders campaign manager Jeff Weaver said a Sanders-Trump face-off would be the political event of the season, and asked by Blitzer if, by chance, any news networks had expressed interest in hosting, Weaver said we have heard from every network.
The debate was floated by ABCs Jimmy Kimmel Wednesday night, who asked Trump about debating Sanders. If he paid a sum toward charity I would love to do that, Trump said. That was followed quickly by a tweet from Sanders saying game on. I look forward to debating Donald Trump in California before the June 7th primary.
Time magazine reports Trump was just joking about agreeing to the debate, while Weaver said he believed Trump had been serious and hoped he would not chicken out.
In a separate interview with MSNBC, Weaver said back-channel conversations were underway between the Sanders and Trump teams.
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Who Would Host a Trump-Sanders Debate? ‘We Have Heard from Every Network’ (Bidding War) (Original Post)
AntiBank
May 2016
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oldandhappy
(6,719 posts)1. please please do not reward MSNBC
AntiBank
(1,339 posts)2. I think it will end up on CBS or ABC, prime time
Hope the women's charity is a good one, like breast cancer (has killed 3 in my family).
Arazi
(6,829 posts)5. Breast cancer research, homeless female vets, PTSD, women's shelters and DV
So many desperate for $$. I can't denigrate any idea that will raise awareness and funnel urgently needed funds for women's issues
NCTraveler
(30,481 posts)3. It would be a bit ironic...
If Sanders ended up being on stage with corporate logo's in the background.
LisaM
(27,811 posts)4. Ha ha. I thought so, too.
Doesn't doing a debate for money go against everything he says he is? (And that includes money raised for charity, because he has said that he is against private charities).
AntiBank
(1,339 posts)6. he said that as Mayor of Burlington in 1981, now changed, in fact gave 4% of total income to them
Sanders gave 4 percent of income to charity in 2014
http://elections.ap.org/content/sanders-gave-4-percent-income-charity-2014
WASHINGTON (AP) Bernie Sanders released his full 2014 federal tax return Friday, revealing that he mostly lives off a six-figure government salary and donated about 4 percent of his family's income to charitable causes.
Sanders and his wife, Jane, donated $8,350 to charity while reporting an adjusted gross income of about $205,000 that year, according to the couple's joint tax return. The share of his family's income that went to charity was about one-third the percentage of income that his primary opponent, former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, and her husband, former President Bill Clinton, gave to charitable groups.
The Sanders campaign released the return a day after a heated Democratic presidential debate in New York in which Sanders pledged to release the single return but hesitated to say when he would release additional years of his taxes.
http://elections.ap.org/content/sanders-gave-4-percent-income-charity-2014
WASHINGTON (AP) Bernie Sanders released his full 2014 federal tax return Friday, revealing that he mostly lives off a six-figure government salary and donated about 4 percent of his family's income to charitable causes.
Sanders and his wife, Jane, donated $8,350 to charity while reporting an adjusted gross income of about $205,000 that year, according to the couple's joint tax return. The share of his family's income that went to charity was about one-third the percentage of income that his primary opponent, former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, and her husband, former President Bill Clinton, gave to charitable groups.
The Sanders campaign released the return a day after a heated Democratic presidential debate in New York in which Sanders pledged to release the single return but hesitated to say when he would release additional years of his taxes.