“The incredible part for me was how friendly the meeting was”, Bennett said, noting the gathering was held in a room marked “family meeting”.
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The GOP’s most recent debate, moderated by CNBC in Boulder, Colorado, on Wednesday night, drew harsh criticism from campaigns and GOP officials. Afterward, a few candidates complained that the questions were not substantive enough; others wanted more air time or assurance that candidates would get opening and closing statements.
Reacting to the discontent, the RNC last week suspended its partnership with NBC News for a scheduled February debate set to be hosted by NBC and Telemundo. “We need to understand that the media is not going to be fair”. The campaigns suggest it may be too close to enact changes for that debate, as they consider the way forward for others. On Monday, Ginsburg amended the draft version to better clarify the campaigns’ suggestions and questions.
“The only leverage we have is to not come”, he said. “It is a magnificent setting but it clearly didn’t have adequate AC for the size crowd with the addition of lights, etc.”, Steve Duprey, head of the RNC’s debate committee, said in an email after the event.
New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie on Monday morning distanced himself from the new demands. “We’re going to do nothing different than we’ve done in the past”. Trump says he would deport 11 million undocumented immigrants and get Mexico to fund the construction of a big wall along the southern border of the United States, and who can forget his now-infamous comment about undocumented Mexican immigrants: “They’re bringing drugs, they’re bringing crime, they are rapists”.
“The third debate wasn’t bad”.
The fact is that political debates have become part of the presidential election culture in the US. The survey was conducted over the three days before the debate and on the day after.
The Donald Trump campaign says it is not doing anything differently by negotiating directly with the television networks that are hosting GOP debates. The RNC also has tasked its chief operating officer, Sean Cairncross, with working with the campaigns to resolve their debate concerns. It’s unclear, however, what role he’ll play should the campaigns get their way.
“That doesn’t mean that I want us, the candidates, controlling the debate, the format and having everybody negotiate”. The downside for him – if, *if* he starts to deflate, his ability to influence the process questions that obviously irk him will evaporate very fast. “Tonight’s the first step”. The candidates have found his efforts lacking, though, and are using the leverage that’s available to them as a group to run the show themselves. Lindsey Graham’s marketing crusade supervisor, Christian Ferry, referred to as dinner meeting of representatives of the Republican presidential campaigns “an extremely productive evening”.
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