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….
O’Malley later said in the interview that he thought the DNC is “doing a bad job” by limiting debates:
I think that the democratic party is doing a bad job by trying to foreclose debates, postpone debates, limit debates to just one before Iowa and one before New Hampshire. You have to ask the questions you have to ask, and Secretary Clinton and her lawyers can answer those questions about the e-mail. What I intend to do as a candidate for president is to go to as many forums as I can.
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