GOP Votes to Punish NBC, CNN Over Hillary Clinton Programming

Won't partner with the nets for 2016 debates

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The Republican National Committee unanimously voted this morning not to partner with CNN and NBC News for any presidential debates during the 2016 election cycle, a rebuke of the networks’ plans to air programs about Hillary Clinton, reported The Washington Post in its political blog

We don't have time for the media's games," RNC chairman Reince Priebus said before the vote at the RNC summer meeting in Boston, according to The Hill. "We’re done putting up with this nonsense.

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