FOX and CNN GOP Primary Debate Rules Create a Contest Within a Contest

A horse race inside a horse race.

2016 debate season begins when Fox News hosts the first Republican primary with partner Facebook on August 6. That will signal the start of the next round of horse-race coverage, to which news orgs can add their ‘which candidates are looking ever more presidential’ stories and debate-gaffe tweet roundups to the cycle. But what to do in the next two or so months before?

A look at FOX’s and CNN’s sparring rules may give us an answer.

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