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Why? The RNC made a big show of cutting ties with the debate commission after it allowed leftist media figures to moderate presidential debates while pushing their biased agendas that had nothing to do with Republican voters.
But why bother doing that just to bring back Lester Holt and Kirsten Welker?
NBC’s Lester Holt and Kristen Welker are set to moderate the third Republican primary debate alongside morning talk show host Hugh Hewitt, NBC announced on Wednesday.
So for every question about the border, there’ll be two questions about “climate change”, “election denial”, “systemic racism” and the suffering of “transgender teens”.
Apart from the bias, this hijacks the debate into complete irrelevancies. And the only goal of Welker and Holt will be to damage everyone on stage and push leftist narratives.
This is a table that the debate commission could have easily picked. And did.
Kristen Welker moderated a Trump-Biden debate and repeatedly interrupted Trump. The media praised her for it.
Throughout Welker’s tenure as a White House correspondent, she has earned a reputation for a scathing style of questioning.
“Mr. President, yes or no. … have you ever worked for Russia. Yes or no?” she demanded during a confrontation in January 2019.
The treatment stands in stark contrast to her handling of Democratic politicos.
In March 2016 Welker was busted on live television tipping off Hillary Clinton’s Communications Director Jennifer Palmieri about at least one question she planned to ask her during a post-debate interview in Michigan. At the time Clinton was locked in a fierce fight for the Democratic nomination against Sen. Bernie Sanders.
Lester Holt moderated the 2016 debate leading to this infamous moment.
HOLT: “Stop and frisk” was ruled unconstitutional in New York because it largely singled out black and Hispanic young men.
TRUMP: No, you’re wrong. It went before a judge who was a very against-police judge. It was taken away from her, and our mayor — our new mayor — refused to go forward with the case. They would have won on appeal. If you look at it, throughout the country, there are many places where it’s —
HOLT: The argument is that it’s a form of racial profiling.
The RNC didn’t just have leftist media hacks moderating the debate, it brought back retreads who had already done it and showed off their bias.
It’s just completely indefensible.
danknight says
GOPe … Governed Opposition Party … for the elites(D) …
Never underestimate the power of the GOPe to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory …
Wallace says
The RNC is a clown show. What a bunch of uninformed idiots
RS says
We quit donating to the RNC after they did nothing to stop the election fraud, and gave us the present government, the same goes for Pence.
Alexander Scipio says
Rona McRomney strikes again… (Yea, I know Trump pushed her dumbass…) The ONLY explanation for this is that the RNC does NOT WANT TO WIN, as I have oft-noted. It’s just so much easier to grift along without having to even pretend to work when in the minority.
Kasandra says
Why shouldn’t they do this. The Republican Party is absolutely spineless and believes, without any objective evidence, that these two will be even-handed even though any sentient being knows it will be an auto-de-fey. I don’t suppose it could have negotiated a contract with NBC whereby it had final say so on moderators. That would show that the RNC didn’t trust NBC and they couldn’t have that.
Eleanor says
Why is “Trump” in the title?
NAVY ET1 says
If you haven’t figured it out yet, the Republican party is basically dead and has been dying for some time. The few conservative stragglers with an (R) beside their names just haven’t got the memo yet.
The minutia surrounding the last three weeks in the House of Representatives and their search for a Speaker bears witness of this fact, with Kevin McCarthy and RINO Inc spending their time knifing every conservative nominee until a freak circumstance (or divine providence, depending on your bent) allowed a hardcore Christian conservative and MAGA Republican to take the gavel. No more free rides for Ukraine. When the left has a collective meltdown, the right person got the job.
There aren’t enough America First conservative politicians yet to warrant a ‘Patriot Party’ but, once there are, we should bury the remnants of the Republican Party and erect a statue of an angry Kevin McCarthy with money in one hand and a knife in the other as a reminder of the corrupting nature of Washington.
Seekers says
The Republican Party is dominated by hacks who are too terrified to lose their jobs to raise “controversial” issues, or allow any of their leaders to raise them.