(In paragraph 2, corrects for chairwoman to be chairman

WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – The Republican National Committee voted on Thursday unanimously to pull out of the Commission on Presidential Debates. It claimed that the Commission on Presidential Debates was biased and would not enact reforms.

“Today, the RNC voted to withdraw from the biased CPD, and we are going to find newer, better debate platforms to ensure that future nominees are not forced to go through the biased CPD in order to make their case to the American people,” the committee’s chairwoman, Ronna McDaniel, said in a statement.

These debates are not in a format that is familiar or if they will be held as often as the ones of recent decades.

A request for comment was not received by the nonprofit commission that has been running these debates since 1987.

As the U.S. has become increasingly divided politically, this move could mean that Americans will have less access to information on their future leaders.

Republicans long have accused the Debate Commission, created to make the debates a part of the presidential election process, of biasing in favor of Democratic candidates.

(This article corrects paragraph 2 to make chairwoman the actual chairman.