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A central argument relates to the debates commission’s decision to name Steve Scully, then of C-SPAN, to moderate a debate in the 2020 presidential campaign between then-President Donald Trump and Democratic nominee Joe Biden. The GOP’s gripe is that Scully had “worked for” Biden when he was a senator.
Technically, yes; practically, not even close. As a 17-year-old freshman at American University, Scully took a course on Congress and the presidency that included an assignment to a congressional office. A native of Erie, Pa., Scully was a logical candidate to work in the office of Sen. John Heinz, a Republican, but he was told there was no availability. So the school found him a spot in Biden’s office, where he worked quarter-time for six weeks in the mailroom of the senator from Delaware. “I literally opened up the mail, read it, sorted it and put it in different bins,” recalls Scully. “I never even got a picture with the guy.”
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/04/16/gop-debate-commission-mcdaniel/
Technically, yes; practically, not even close. As a 17-year-old freshman at American University, Scully took a course on Congress and the presidency that included an assignment to a congressional office. A native of Erie, Pa., Scully was a logical candidate to work in the office of Sen. John Heinz, a Republican, but he was told there was no availability. So the school found him a spot in Biden’s office, where he worked quarter-time for six weeks in the mailroom of the senator from Delaware. “I literally opened up the mail, read it, sorted it and put it in different bins,” recalls Scully. “I never even got a picture with the guy.”
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/04/16/gop-debate-commission-mcdaniel/