{"id":1810271,"date":"2023-01-19T06:48:27","date_gmt":"2023-01-19T11:48:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1810271"},"modified":"2023-01-19T06:49:41","modified_gmt":"2023-01-19T11:49:41","slug":"rnc-needs-to-keep-liz-cheney-and-her-media-allies-from-hijacking-presidential-debates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/rnc-needs-to-keep-liz-cheney-and-her-media-allies-from-hijacking-presidential-debates\/","title":{"rendered":"RNC Needs To Keep Liz Cheney And Her Media Allies From Hijacking Presidential Debates"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">28<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Frnc-needs-to-keep-liz-cheney-and-her-media-allies-from-hijacking-presidential-debates%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1810271&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47-->\n<p>For networks looking to make a profit on the lucrative advertising revenue generated by presidential campaigns every four years, televised clashes between Donald Trump and Liz Cheney would be a ratings hit. But the Republican National Committee (RNC) can\u2019t let that happen.<\/p>\n<p>Is it possible to believe that Cheney, who was, is actually a person? <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2021\/11\/16\/wyoming-gop-no-longer-recognizes-liz-cheney-as-a-republican\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">disowned <\/a>by the Republican Party in the nation\u2019s reddest state, will meet a significant polling threshold to quality for any one of the debates? The ex-Wyoming lawmaker will split the fringe Never Trumper vote with Utah Sen. Mitt Romney, if the former Massachusetts governor-turned-western senator were to launch a third shot at the White House. If not Romney, she\u2019ll split the small pot of voters with whoever else runs in the same vein. Former White House National Security Advisor John Bolton already said he\u2019ll \u201cseriously consider\u201d Jumping into the race. <\/p>\n<p>Cheney can&#8217;t stand on the same debate stage with the former president. But it\u2019s not about Trump. It\u2019s about Republican voters. <\/p>\n<p>Few actions could be more offensive to the party base than to allow legacy networks to manipulate the polls in a way that gives Cheney \u2014 the leader of the congressional Jan. 6 witch hunt who <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2022\/08\/18\/analysis-if-not-for-democrat-voters-cheneys-loss-would-have-been-even-more-devastating\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">depended<\/a> on Democrats in her Wyoming primary last summer \u2014 an opportunity to turn the presidential debate stage into even more of a circus as the donkey in the spotlight. <\/p>\n<p>Traditional candidates have been qualified to appear on televised debates because of their poll numbers. There are all sorts of ways networks can jack up a candidate\u2019s poll numbers, from their lineup in the questionnaire to the phrasing of survey questions. While Cheney hasn\u2019t announced any sort of presidential campaign quite yet, she\u2019s certainly preparing. After an overwhelming <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/politics\/2022-primary-elections\/wyoming-house-results\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">37-point<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2022\/08\/16\/wyoming-republicans-throw-liz-cheney-out-of-congress\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">defeat<\/a> In the Wyoming congressional primary which would have been <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2022\/08\/18\/analysis-if-not-for-democrat-voters-cheneys-loss-would-have-been-even-more-devastating\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">far wider<\/a> Cheney established a political committee with all the necessary equipment, even though Democrats were not willing to cross party lines in support of the incumbent. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/jfc\/summary.php?id=C00785378&#038;cycle=2022\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">seven-figure<\/a> Cash sum<\/p>\n<p>The RNC needs to pass a measure that blocks legacy networks from hijacking the party\u2019s debates to place Cheney on stage. If she couldn\u2019t win a Republican primary in Wyoming, there\u2019s not a chance she\u2019ll capture the 2024 presidential nomination. Any campaign is guaranteed to be nothing more than a performance to make a statement and get attention \u2014 not a serious White House effort. Any debate that puts Cheney on stage represents a network&#8217;s attempt to manipulate the Republican Party and maximize ad revenues. <\/p>\n<p>Just months away is the first Republican primary debate for 2024. The first televised match-up for the 2016 GOP contest, although no date has been determined, was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/media\/gop-republican-debate-august-2015-highlights-analysis\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Aug. 6<\/a>2015, more than one year before the general elections. <\/p>\n<p>Cheney must be removed from the RNC platform by a rule change. She would only be a distraction from the issues and a ratings-hungry news corps would amplify her every word, just like they did last Congress. The party should own the issue.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A televised clash between Liz Cheney and Donald Trump on the prime-time debate stage would be ratings gold for networks<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":494,"featured_media":1810274,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[546],"tags":[8066,3726,15571,6919,15570,13063,4188,3849,6915],"class_list":["post-1810271","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-federalist","tag-allies","tag-cheney","tag-debates","tag-federalist","tag-hijacking","tag-liz","tag-media","tag-presidential","tag-rnc"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1810271","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/494"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1810271"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1810271\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1810274"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1810271"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1810271"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1810271"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}