Back in May he was pretty voiceful about not just wanting more debates, but wanting to include republicans in those debates.
http://www.politico.com/story/2015/05/sanders-wants-to-debate-republicans-118460
“We need a lot more debates in this campaign,” Sanders said. “I hope very much that we can begin with the Democratic candidate debates as early as July and have some Republicans in those debates as well.”
The Democratic National Committee earlier this month announced that it will hold six sanctioned debates beginning this fall. The Republican National Committee, dealing with a significantly larger 2016 GOP field without a clear front-runner, has scheduled at least nine debates, the first in early August.
During a Reddit “Ask Me Anything” chat a couple weeks ago, Sanders suggested that he wasn’t entirely satisfied with the DNC schedule. “I don’t think six debates are enough and we will be interacting with the DNC to try to create a situation where we have as many debates as possible,” he wrote.
Insiders say that the DNC debate schedule was something of a compromise between the Clinton camp and the challengers’ campaigns, which wanted more debates.
Now, what I am curious about is two-fold; What compromise did the Clinton camp make and why is Sanders backing down from his initial issues?
It all seems very strange to me. I could actually live with 6 debates if they weren't so horribly timed. I could live with the amount of debates if all the candidates agreed about it but it really does seem as though very few compromises could have been made.
Bernie Sanders was among the first to call for more debates, and as of now, he seems to be just fine with not bucking the DNC.
He was ready to debate republicans before he even got the nomination and now he's just kinda going along to get along it seems. I really thought that Sanders would be the barn burner about this issue.
Either way, I am really looking forward to a debate.
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