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"Republican National Committee (RNC) co-Chair Lara Trump said Wednesday evening, without evidence, that debates are always “rigged so heavily” in President Biden’s favor."

On Friday morning, the debate moderators emerged for the long-awaited presidential brawls between Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton. The first presidential debate will be moderated by Lester Holt of NBC News; the vice presidential debate will be moderated by Elaine Quijano of CBS News; Martha Raddatz of ABC News and Anderson Cooper of CNN for the second debate; and finally, Chris Wallace for the third debate. This isn’t a great list for Hillary, but it’s a worse list for Trump.

DES MOINES, Iowa — Three days after the third GOP presidential primary debate, Ted Cruz is still hitting CNBC for conducting a biased event.Appearing at the Iowa GOP’s Growth and Opportunity forum Saturday, the Texas senator brought his criticism of how the debate was moderated to the campaign trail.“So what did you all think of the moderators,” he asked too boos from a crowd estimated by the Iowa GOP to be around 1,500.“How about we stop letting leftwing liberals moderate Republican debates,” Cruz declared. “Let me lay out a radical proposition: How about if we say from now on if...

Boulder, Colo. — After a performance by CNBC moderators that Republicans characterized as both biased and inept, a manager for a top GOP campaign says he will try to organize other campaigns to force the Republican National Committee to make "wholesale change" in the debate process.

(snip).....Perhaps it is time to totally rethink some debate assumptions, at least from the party standpoint during the primary process. The Jurassic media is really not a necessary ingredient in this process in this day of the new media and the social media. Engaged primary voters, who are the entire ballgame at this juncture, are easily able to follow the candidates through talk radio and the internet -- including the social media. In other words, there likely are not legions of Republican primary voter in the country who care a whit what Chris Wallace thinks. After last night, many will...

DEBATE MODERATORS ANNOUNCED: PBS Jim Lehrer, first Pres debate, Oct 3 Denver... CNN Candy Crowley, town hall, Oct 16, Hempsted LI... CBS Bob Schieffer, third Pres debate, Oct. 22, Boca Raton... ABC Martha Radditz, VP debate, Oct 11, Danville VA... FLASHBACK: CROWLEY: Some Think Ryan Pick 'Some Sort of Ticket Death Wish'..

CNSNews.com -- On the eve of Thursday's presidential debate, media watchdog groups on both the left and right panned the four journalists who will moderate the contests. The left-leaning Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting viewed the journalists as lightweights who won't ask tough questions. At the conservative Media Research Center, the parent of CNSNews.com, all four moderators are seen as possessing a liberal bias. There was little fanfare when the Commission on Presidential Debates chose PBS' Jim Lehrer and Gwen Ifill, ABC's Charles Gibson and CBS' Bob Schieffer in August. But with the stakes high for both President Bush and...