“In the weeks since Fox News and CNN released the criteria for the first debates airing on their networks,” begins a Wall Street Journal op-ed penned by Republican National Committee communications director Sean Spicer, “the debates themselves have become a source of debate.”
Oh yes, yes they have, and a portion of that debate has been criticism implicating the RNC for allowing Fox and CNN to continue with their candidate cutoff plans.
An earlier op-ed in the WSJ had Bobby Jindal‘s chief strategist Curt Anderson arguing the debate stage should hold all 16 candidates at once, but that the RNC, “in league with Fox News and CNN,” was preventing that from happening.
In an appearance on Morning Joe last week, Lindsey Graham called out the RNC for their hands-off approach to the debate structure set up by Fox and CNN saying, “the RNC, they’re not helpless here, it is their party.
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