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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Swamboli!!
I like the swamy dude. He’s actually a great candidate. Says everything I wanna hear. I like him, but i think he hasnt got the juice to do any of it.
I’d love to be proven wrong.
Me too. He sounds like a conservative Trump.
Nothing 'establishment' about him.
Wasn’t the DeSantis announcement on Twitter/X result in a bunch of glitches that made DeSantis look incompetent? Hasn’t Ramiswamy learned from other people’s mistakes?
At this point, that’s become obvious.
Nah, I like Ramaswamy, he’s so intelligent and outspoken, does’t care what people think of him. He tells the unvarnished truth. Would be a terrific Press Secretary for DJT.
He sounds like that because that works for him.
He and his family practice daily prayers to Hindu deities and attends Hindu temples .... plan to raise their two sons as Hindus...and he eagerly equates Hinduism and Christian teachings as if on and the same...I assure you they are not! Mysticism and polytheism are at the core of his faith.
Further more Hinduism has a rich history when it comes to queerness,gays etc. So NO!
I agree with what Kunneman, a pro-Trump pastor in Nebraska stated..... “You're going to have some dude put his hand on something other than the Bible? You're going to let him put all of his strange deity gods up into the White House?”
it would surly test the limits of X that’s for sure...
And fail like DeSantis announcement. The technology is not ready.
Ramaswamy should not be at the next debates, so not his concern.
You obviously don’t know any Hindus.
I am suspicious of Ramaswamy. He knows how to play all the right people. Something about him rubs me wrong. He reminds me of the “conservative chic” trend during the Obama years when they were just charlatans.
Nor do I care to.
We haven’t had genuine debates in this nation in generations.
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