O’Malley: Triple the Number of Debates

Published August 13, 2015 7:25pm ET



On MSNBC’s Morning Joe program this morning, Democratic presidential hopeful Martin O’Malley told Mika Brzezinski he’d like to see the number of Democratic debates tripled before votes are cast in the early primary states of Iowa and New Hampshire.

Certainly, there must be a happy medium between the 20 debates we had last time and the one that the DNC would like to restrict Iowa to, the one they would like to restrict New Hampshire to. So, I would think three debates in both of those early states would be a lot preferable to limiting it to just one debate. What have we come to as a party, Mika, where we can only afford one debate in New Hampshire before this decision? It’s ridiculous….

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