Posted on 11/02/2015 6:43:28 AM PST by jimbo123
Republican campaigns on Sunday evening pushed to take greater control over the party's chaotic debate process, agreeing to oversee negotiation of format with TV networks while relegating the Republican National Committee to focus on logistical matters.
After the two-hour meeting, held at a Hilton in Alexandria, Va., top advisers to the GOP presidential campaigns - angry over how the first three debates have gone - said they were prepared to negotiate critical formatting issues with networks that will be broadcasting the future debates, a matter that until now had been overseen by the RNC. The campaigns said they were preparing to send a letter to TV networks informing them of their collective view of how future debates should look.
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One flash point in the meeting, according to several people in the room, came when Jeb Bush's campaign manager Danny Diaz urged the group to reinstate the planned Feb. 26 debate partnership with Telemundo, which the RNC suspended this week after this week's disastrous CNBC debate (Telemundo is owned by NBC Universal, CNBC's parent company). Donald Trump's campaign manager Corey Lewandowski pushed back hard, threatening to boycott the event entirely.
"We don't want that," one person present quoted Lewandowski as saying. "We won't go."
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Great !
Have the entire debate in Spanish.
Is Jeb! that bloody stupid? /redundant question
Jeb, just go away. Seriously.
Yeb! insists on Telemundo?
Is he really this stupid?
Its not that I have objection to Telemundo showing it, but to highlight it and expose yourself this way is idiocy.
I ain't voting for no stinking Mexican.
JEB!, the only self-identified Mexican running, had his maracas ready and his canned speeches memorized in Spanish. No wonder he’s disappointed.
If Hispanics want to watch the POTUS debates...let them watch them on english TV stations like “All” other American minorities must do!!! End of story!!!
Sounds like TRUMP’S campaign controlled the show.
GOOD.
Of course, this would just be a stunt for Jeb to promise Amnesty to the Telemundo audience in Spanish and invite the ones still in Mexico to cross the border.
Perfecto. Exactamente.
Sorry Yeb but you’ll need more than 5% support to get that over.
“Immediately after the meeting wrapped up, Ben Ginsberg, a veteran Republican election attorney who had been overseeing the discussion, placed a call to RNC Chairman Reince Priebus. But Ginsberg got the chairman’s voicemail...”
Heh.
Why don't you just move to Mejico, loser?!!?
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