{"id":562610,"date":"2021-06-13T12:52:08","date_gmt":"2021-06-13T16:52:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=562610"},"modified":"2021-06-13T12:52:10","modified_gmt":"2021-06-13T16:52:10","slug":"rnc-might-skip-network-tv-presidential-debates-in-2024-top-republican-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/rnc-might-skip-network-tv-presidential-debates-in-2024-top-republican-says\/","title":{"rendered":"RNC Might Skip Network TV Presidential Debates In 2024, Top Republican Says"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/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-might-skip-network-tv-presidential-debates-in-2024-top-republican-says%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=562610&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--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/debate-2.jpg?w=1200&#038;h=800&#038;ixlib=react-9.0.3\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"  style=\"display:none\"><\/div>\n<p>The Republican National Committee might skip network TV presidential debates if they aren\u2019t dramatically overhauled before the next election, says David Bossie, president of Citizens United.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe don\u2019t need to count on just the networks,\u201d Bossie told Hugh Hewitt on his radio show, Politico <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2021\/06\/11\/rnc-primary-debates-major-networks-493454\">reported<\/a>. \u201cThere are so many opportunities out there, so many platforms out there that we can go to and partner with to get the message out.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Bossie said some debate moderators spend more time grandstanding than digging down on issues important to voters.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey\u2019re asking questions really not to impact primary Republican voters, but to have \u2018gotcha\u2019 questions and answers for the general election debate, because they all want to see their question and answer played during the general election,\u201d said the president of Citizens United, which says in its website \u201cdedicated to restoring our government to citizens\u2019 control.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have to not allow bad actors to infiltrate our debate process.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The two parties have long partnered with the Commission on Presidential Debates (CPD), which has overseen the debates since 1988. But things went south last election and Republicans began to question whether they should continue to defer to the commission.<\/p>\n<p>The first presidential debate was a debacle: Both Republican Donald Trump and Democrat Joe Biden interrupted the other endlessly. Moderator Chris Wallace of Fox News lost all control, letting the September 29 discourse devolve into a schoolyard scrap.<\/p>\n<p>The second debate got blown up after Trump tested positive for COVID-19 and then spent three days in the hospital, even though the then-president pushed hard for the debate, with the CPD finally rejecting his requests. The CPD, which sets the schedule with input from both campaigns, decided the second contest should go virtual, but Trump quickly shot that down and said he wouldn\u2019t play. The final debate occurred Oct. 22, just 11 days before Election Day \u2014 and after millions of Americans had already voted.<\/p>\n<p>But it was, oddly, Wallace who took the most heat for his moderation of a presidential debate. The Fox News host, a registered Democrat, drew fierce criticism for what apparent bias in the debate in the favor of Biden. Some critics said Wallace appeared to let Biden interrupt Trump but would jump in to rein in Trump when the president tried to interrupt.<\/p>\n<p>Conservatives also ripped C-SPAN journalist Steve Scully for alleged bias after it was revealed he had sent a questionable tweet \u2014 and then lied about it. In the post, Scully asked former Trump aide Anthony Scaramucci if he should respond to a critical remark Trump made about him.<\/p>\n<p>Trump ripped NBC\u2019s Kristen Welker, the moderator for the final presidential debate, as \u201ctotally partisan.\u201d In an interview on \u201cFox &#038; Friends,\u201d Trump said he would prefer a more neutral party to moderate the debate.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cKristen Welker is terrible,\u201d Trump said. \u201cI mean she is totally partisan. Her father and mother are big supporters of Joe Biden for a long time. They\u2019re supporters of the Democrat Party, and she deleted her entire account.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere are people out there that can be neutral. Kristen Welker cannot be neutral at all,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p><em>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\">member<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Republican National Committee might skip network TV presidential debates if they aren\u2019t dramatically overhauled before the next election, says David Bossie, president of Citizens United.\u201cWe don\u2019t need to count &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2280146,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/debate-2.jpg?w=1200&h=800&ixlib=react-9.0.3","fifu_image_alt":"RNC Might Skip Network TV Presidential Debates In 2024, Top Republican Says","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-562610","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/debate-2.jpg?w=1200&h=800&ixlib=react-9.0.3","fifu_image_alt":"RNC Might Skip Network TV Presidential Debates In 2024, Top Republican Says","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/562610","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=562610"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/562610\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2280146"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=562610"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=562610"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=562610"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}