ASHE SCHOW: Sorry, Bernie Sanders, no inter-party primary debate for you.
Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders wants more Democratic primary debates — and also inter-party debates with all the GOP presidential candidates.
He’ll get no such thing.
On Monday, Sanders sent a letter to Democratic National Committee Chairwoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz requesting more than the six primary debates already sanctioned. He also asked for debates among Republican and Democratic hopefuls.
“I believe that these inter-party debates would put in dramatic focus the shallow and at times ridiculous policies and proposals being advocated by the Republican candidates and by their party’s platform,” Sanders wrote.
In response, DNC spokeswoman Holly Shulman told Politico’s Dylan Byers that the debate framework is already in place. She made no mention of Sanders’ request for inter-party debates.
No surprise.