Posted on 01/18/2016 6:53:01 PM PST by Hojczyk
The Republican National Committee (RNC) is awarding the Feb. 26 Houston, Texas, debate it has taken away from NBC News to CNN, Breitbart News has learned from RNC sources.
CNN will moderate the debate along with National Review and Telemundo—two outlets that were scheduled to moderate the Feb. 26 Houston debate with NBC News—and with Salem Communications.
Several GOP debates this cycle have been moderated by CNN—and have been successful so far.
The RNC’s Debate Committee voted unanimously on Monday via teleconference, after an update from RNC chairman Reince Priebus, to formally extricate NBC News as the moderator of the Houston debate. The decision came after an abysmal performance in Colorado’s October debate by NBC partner CNBC, particularly by co-moderator John Harwood who was roundly criticized for a poor performance as moderator.
The Houston debate will come after voters in Iowa, New Hampshire, South Carolina, then Nevada make their picks for the GOP nomination in 2016, and ahead of the all-important SEC Primary on March 1–of which Texas is a part.
The venue for the event, the University of Houston, remains unchanged.
That NBC News lost the debate is significant, and the network will likely end up losing millions in ad revenue because of the RNC’s decision to move forward with formally removing it as its broadcast partner.
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Trump will love this
CNN will moderate the debate along with National Review and Telemundoâ
Cool all though the Mexican cable Tell a Gumbo and National Review both despise TRUMP, equally.
Making it more difficult for Americans without cable/satellite to see.
“... along with National Review “
Why not just have Jeb! write the questions?
Will it be translated from Communist?
national review recently wrote a very positive editorial about ted cruz.
Telemundo is NBC.
Yeah, but they don’t mean it.
“... along with National Review”
Why not just have Jeb! write the questions?
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He just may be writing them. /sarc
Do not worry, he will screw up the answers to his own questions.
GO CRUZ!
Do not worry, he will screw up the answers to his own questions.
GO CRUZ!
That’s fine. The GOP doesn’t need to appeal to the live-in-a-cabin-in-the-woods demographic.
Your ignorance is staggering.
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