Posted on 11/24/2023 1:44:58 PM PST by thegagline
Presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy is once again pressuring the Republican National Committee to change their debate format after audience declines across the previous three showdowns.
“This January GOP debate should be held on X, not on cable TV, moderated by Tucker [Carlson], who might just ask questions that primary voters actually care about,” Ramaswamy said in a statement to The Post on Friday.
“They say they want to reach younger voters and new audiences? Well that’s how you do it,” the 38-year-old biotech entrepreneur added.
The first Republican primary debate, hosted by Fox News Channel and held on Aug. 23 in Milwaukee, averaged 12.8 million viewers.
The second debate, held Sept. 27 in Simi Valley, Calif. and hosted by the Fox Business Network, got 9.5 million viewers, while the third debate, hosted by NBC News Nov. 8 in Miami, received an average of 7.51 million viewers. The RNC did not immediately respond to an inquiry from The Post about Ramaswamy’s proposal.
The White House hopeful had made the same criticism in his opening remarks during the Miami debate, arguing Carlson, Joe Rogan and Elon Musk should moderate the debates to attrack “ten times the viewership.”
The Ramaswamy campaign has previously called on the RNC to alter its debate guidelines to feature a single moderator who “is able to enforce debate rules” and to raise the unique donor threshold from 70,000 to 100,000 to weed out lower-performing candidates.
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No more debates.
Those weren’t debates.
Well. It’s an idea. But it’s long past time for the rest to drop out and fully support Trump.
They are just pitifully lingering on in hopes that one of these BS charges force Trump to drop out.
Yep!
Fox News pimps him all the time with airtime
On the rare occasions I watch it
And no, the sales pitch is not working on me
Don’t like the guy - not even a little!
So the fraud wants more eyeballs on his snake oil film flam show?
But surprise.
Fact he’s a candidate shows just how pathetically aweful the GOP establishment is.
The GOP Establishment keeps going with designated losers
Just like The Washington Generals
(just how pathetically awful the GOP Establishment is.)
🔝🔝🔝
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He is 1000% correct. Which is why McRomBush will never go there. She is not interested in winning power. She is interested in keeping her job pretending to raise “funds”.
waste of time
LOL
Ramaswamy and the other misfits will never win the Presidency.
Even if the Democrats successfully keep President Trump out of office again.
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Exactly!!
😀😀😆😂🤣🤣
They were reveals
Yeah, there’s no way it would happen.
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