Since when did the moderator become more important than the candidate? Any yahoo could ask questions. Now it is all gotcha
“Since when did the moderator become more important than the candidate?”
Since the GOP made the debate into a commodity by selling the rights to that debate to FOX. The GOP actually brags that it does not set the ground rules, if candidates give opening statements, if equal time is given, etc.
Then FOX gets to sell advertising to try to make good on the investment they made by buying the rights. Now the big draw decided he isn’t part of their scam and walked. And they are in a panic. They are going to lose tens of millions on this.