AMAC Exclusive – By Seamus Brennan
According to a recent New York Times report, the Republican National Committee (RNC) is actively in talks with left-leaning networks like CNN, CBS, and NBC as prospective sponsors for its 2024 presidential primary debates.
Could the RNC possibly be more out of touch with its voters?
“In an intriguing show of détente, the Republican National Committee has asked several major TV networks—including CNN, a regular Republican boogeyman—to consider sponsoring debates,” the report states. “Party officials are also in talks with executives from ABC, CBS, NBC, and Fox News.”
Those same networks’ handling of the Republican primary debates for the 2016 cycle should disqualify them from consideration this time around. During the October 2015 debate, then-presidential candidate Ted Cruz famously channeled Americans’ frustration with the glaring biases of the mainstream media. “You know, let me say something at the outset. The questions that have been asked so far in this debate illustrate why the American people don’t trust the media,” Cruz said in a perfect distillation of conservatives’ exasperation toward the increasingly activist media complex.
“You look at the questions: ‘Donald Trump, are you a comic book villain?’ ‘Ben Carson, can you do math?’ ‘John Kasich, will you insult two people over here?’ ‘Marco Rubio, why don’t you resign?’ ‘Jeb Bush, why have your numbers fallen?’” Cruz continued. “How about talking about the substantive issues people care about?”
Of course, since the 2016 presidential primaries, the media’s credibility has only sunken further.
Throughout Trump’s presidency, Americans witnessed the propagation of an endless series of lies, hoaxes, and contrivances manufactured by the media for the sole purpose of smearing Republican officeholders and sullying Republican voters. The entirely discredited Russiagate narrative, the outrageous smearing of Brett Kavanaugh as a serial rapist, the dismissing of the COVID-19 lab theory as a “racist conspiracy theory,” and the thoroughly debunked narratives surrounding the events of January 6 constitute just a few notable examples.
The media then doubled down on their forfeiture of credibility during the 2020 presidential cycle. The general election debates between Trump and Biden were a comedy of “gotcha” questions aimed at Trump while the moderators lobbed softballs for a clearly struggling Joe Biden.
Then, with weeks to go until the election, the same media engaged in the blatant spreading of disinformation and open censorship by suppressing and discrediting the Hunter Biden laptop scandal—which many conservatives rightly consider to be an instance of brazen election interference.
But the media’s propensity to fake narrative-building and hoax instigation is not limited to attacks on Republicans. For years, media forces have propped up lies about the COVID pandemic, slandered innocent high school students as raging white supremacists, and aided in the schemes of left-wing figures to propagate false accounts of systemic racism.
Given all of this—and everything that voters have witnessed in recent years—why would the RNC delegate a major part of the presidential selection process to networks actively committed to destroying Republicans?
Prior to the January New York Times report, the Republican establishment had shown promising signs of avoiding a debate process controlled by left-wing forces. Last year, the RNC voted unanimously to exit the Commission on Presidential Debates.
“The Commission on Presidential Debates is biased and has refused to enact simple and commonsense reforms to help ensure fair debates, including hosting debates before voting begins and selecting moderators who have never worked for candidates on the debate stage,” Chairwoman Ronna McDaniel declared in a statement, referring to the fact that the moderator of the first presidential debate in 2020 previously worked in Joe Biden’s Senate office.
But given the news that the RNC is now likely to enlist precisely the same “biased” entities to orchestrate the Republican nomination process once again, it appears McDaniel’s words were nothing more than empty rhetoric. Given the open hostility—even hatred—CNN has for Trump and other leading Republicans; one has to wonder whether elements of the RNC are intentionally setting up one or more Republican primary candidates to be targeted by the network’s moderators.
If GOP leadership wants to retain the trust of its voter base, conduct a fair debate process that reflects the voices of conservatives, and, most importantly, defeat the Democrat nominee in 2024, it must reject the hopelessly biased and corrupt mainstream media establishment.
Republican voters will not—and should not—tolerate anything less.
I am confident that NEWSMAX would happily host the debates, and that CSPAN, RSBN and others would piggyback.
“Lame Stream” media would never be considered, had Harmeet Dillon replaced Mitt Romney’s Brice, Ronna McDaniel!
We still have far too many “Washington Elites” influencing important decisions within the Republican Party!!
Rs should instead do the entire thing with alternate media – Tim Pool, Triggernomentry, Breaking Points (maybe … Saagar, at least), even Rising might be ok, tho they are part of the legacy establishment media.
Think about The Fifth Column, Reason, VDH, these sorts of people – outsider viewpoints that will ask interesting questions that will both inform the Republican electorate, by engaging in the topics and investigative vectors that matter to Republicans, but also by ensuring that the debate isn’t about the narrow set of concerns of the identity marxist set that controls the major institutions today.
The debates are ALWAYS rigged anyway. When was the last time that the Libertarian Party candidate was invited to the debate stage? The Libertarian Party is the only third party to be on the ballots of every state and the District of Columbia. The answer is NEVER.
The major parties are allowed to continue to exist only because the election process denies the voters the full choice of candidates who can compete because the Presidential Debates are a closed forum and the only viable third party is denied a place on the stage. The American system of fair play and rational voting methods is skewed to keep anybody who is not a major party candidate from possibly winning the election.
In addition, of course, the moderators are NOT unbiased as they once were when the League of Woman Voters ran the show. The time is now to revamp the entire process, including especially absentee ballots and a return to a single Election Day. No voter can be sure of his candidate by early voting. Circumstances can change radically. Example: the last Senatorial election in Pennsylvania was won by a candidate who had an almost totally disabling stroke just prior to election day and has not been able to perform his duties and probably never will be able.
What was Ronna McDaniel’s response when you asked her why she is considering letting Democrats run the Republican debates?
RINO stupido. We can’t expect to win anything with these idiots.
Not another dollar to the RNC……until they listen to “We The People” Ditch Mitch
I’m skeptical that the NYT report is accurate. At least I hope it’s not. The RNC should have learned its lesson years ago. Would they really be this stuck-on stupid after all these years? The main steam media has proven itself year after year incapable of being unbiased and objective, and totally corrupt in its dealings with Republicans and conservatives due to being in bed with the Dems.
This article is inaccurate.
Absolutely no left-wing media involved, please! They enjoy tossing out hard-to-answer questions to catch conservatives off-guard. Candidate Trump has already given them much ammunition (sigh…); best to keep them off the stage. Limit debate moderation to Breitbart and NewsMax!
“You look at the questions: ‘Donald Trump, are you a comic book villain?’ ‘Ben Carson, can you do math?’ ‘John Kasich, will you insult two people over here?’ ‘Marco Rubio, why don’t you resign?’ ‘Jeb Bush, why have your numbers fallen?’” ” Contrary to Ted Cruz’s deliberate and intentional lies none of thos questions were asked. And if you exclude the people who watch NBC, ABC, and CBS, from people you are reaching out and whose votes you are trying to win, you can’t win an election. They get vastly more viewers than fox. And If you include Fox in with the honest media, you’re left with significantly less than 20% of the electorate. If you only talk to the 20% of the american people who are true trump supporters, you are never going to win.
I vote they go on the Joe Rogan Show. More viewers and substantive questions.
It comes down to who is the monitor of the debate. If CNN, ABC, or CBS et al want one of their Democrat shills to monitor and ask questions on condition their networks host the debate, you politely tell them to fkuc-off and die.
the democrats are hoping for a large republican field that splits the vote enough to win the nomination for trump. the result of this would be 4 more years of biden. an even better scenario for them? the republican race is brutal desantis wins the nomination so angering trump that he runs in his new-formed freedom party. result 4 more years of biden the only hope the republicans have to win the white house is to abandon trump the albatross around the party’s neck
Why does the media even have to “host” the debate? Why not hold the debate yourself and allow the networks the right to broadcast them. Just like the convention.
RNC hosts them…but allows any network to show them live. If the goal is to get moderate voters who watch liberal networks, it’s a good idea. But don’t let them run the show. Otherwise you’ll get questions like “what is your pro-noun” and “why are you mean to the mentally ill”…granted they mean why are you mean to Joe Biden.
“RNC Flirts with Turning 2024 Primary Debates Over to Left-Wing Media” – SERIOUSLY?????
RNC leadership? Not so much! Shame this notion is up for discussion. I don’t know of any voters eager for a repeat of biased moderators. RNC looks like a fools convention.
If republicans can’t stay together we certainly can’t beat the democrats the way they manufacture votes. If Trump were to run as an independent it would fracture the republicans to insure defeat. I voted for Ross Perrott and elected Bill Clinton, he cut my Social Security in 1/2 making Social Security more stable for some, certainly not for me. If we don’t make Donald Trump our candidate it seems it would make whatever candidate we choose less likely to win. Why do you think the democrats are working so hard to keep Trump off the ballot? If the RNC has been infiltrated how do we raise money for Trump to make him the candidate? You have to understand people. The democrats lie, cheat, steal, whatever they have to do to keep the Republican Party out of control. It’s like climate change to them. If the Republicans get the power back their sky will be falling every day of any republican administration. The mid terms showed us one thing. If republicans don’t have a robust candidate, and we sit at home and don’t go vote, we can insure democratic/communist control of our country. The coup started in the White House when Obama, Biden, Susan Rice, James Comey, all talked about overthrowing the 2016 election they all thought they had enough votes, real or not to win.
Democrats have all the union votes. People discount that now and say there just aren’t that many union votes. I tell you, every city and town of any size,especially east coast and west coast, public employees are all union. Police, Fire, Emergency Services, all city workers, federal employees, and now all the woke military will vote democratic. Does the word ORGANIZED mean anything to you. It sure does to them.
This proves RINOs are running the RNC. I suspected as much and quit donating to the RNC over a decade ago.
ANOTHER dog & pony show!
It would be better to hire moderators from Hungary. The leader thereof is pretty savvy according to Tucker.
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If this happens, I will not be watching any slimy left-wing debates! And I bet Trump would not show up! Wouldn’t that be great for low ratings!!!!!
It is actions such as this that are less than Conservative and far too left of center that have kept me from joining the RNC since they forces Romney down our throats after the John McCain fiasco.
Let’s have fair debates, with Glenn Beck asking the questions.
Many things these days are hard to believe and this article is another one of those coming from the Republicans. ‘Shooting oneself in the foot’ has become their top motto so irritating to us Republicans whom the RNC supposedly represents! Elections after elections we hear (after the debates of course) that the Repubs gave into the Dems and let them run the debate stuff. Why does the RNC not fight for their rights……….can’t type another word……………UGH!
In spite of all this knowledge, and knowing very well of the corporate media deception, The Democratic party just keeps on winning elections, not only Presidential, but locally as DA,s, Governors, etc…..Their corruption JUST DOESN’T MATTER to Americans looking for government freebies and gimmes.
That us EXACTLY why I don’t give the RNC the sweat off my cahones to make lemonade. I donate to the Repugs of my choice and will continue to do so!!
No Democratic Media should be allowed to host our debates! End of the story, only outlets that will ask critical questions without trying to twist the answers to discredit the candidates.
Take up arms and take out out the worthless congress! All the demoncrats and about 60% of the republicans are all traitors to America and its constitution!!!
Have the Republicans completely lost their minds? I bet the main stream media is chomping at the bit to see who gets to host the debates. It would be another feather in any of their hats, not to mention giving which ever network does so, credibility once again.
Unbelievable…God bless the USA!
Perfect example of why so many Republicans are fed up with the RNC.
This is why I stopped financially contributing to the RNC. I will support local conservative candidates and my state’s Republican Party. I am tired of the RNC losing elections for the conservative cause. Perhaps the RNC hates us as much as the Democrats do.
The RNC under Ronna McDaniel-Romney is nothing but a DNC auxiliary, hence Pence, and McConnell.
If the RNC is going to commit suicide, I will not vote for them!
Seriously?? The liberal media is dedicated to insuring Democrats win elections and advance the despise America agenda. No more, no less. Subjecting any more than one (for contrast interest) for Republican debates is subjecting our candidates to ridicule and endless gotcha questions. This, if true (the story came from the NY Times after all) represents virtual treason by the RNC to its constituents. Who is responsible for this nonsense?
Miss Ronna must have made that negative remark about the media when she was trying to keep her RNC leadership role. RINOS do that.
Eons ago, the League of Women Voters would host unbiased debates that were unbiased (but of course that was in the day when TV networks were sane and serious about presenting TRUTH rather than opinion.
Since CNN, for one, has lost viewers by the thousands, why on earth would the GOP offer them a way to keep blathering their poisonous propaganda??!
Surely there’s a conservative media outlet (NOT FOX) which can host, without bias, these debates!
If this is true the reps will lose a lot of financial support.
Drop hints about license cancelations when taking the White House if they don’t play nice. There are no automatic license renewals for local stations. I’m sure sufficient complainants can be found in all broadcast areas. Play dirty as they do.
I totally agree with the statement that we should not tolerate another biased debates.
Keep the party united for equal Justice and Freedom!!
We are fighting to keep our Republic intact. Do not sell out!!
Carsino
I have a question for AMAC. Why put in this comments section the comment by i.e. Nikita Greer and others regarding making extra salarly and who to contact? What’s that all about. I say do not allow this type of “advertising” in this comment section. What do you say?
OAN (One America News network)
Damned if you do and damned if you don’t. A “catch 22” situation. If the RNC does approve presidential debates the liberal media commentators will nit pic the candidates with gotcha questions. If the RNC disapproves the presidential debates the liberal media will claim non transparency.
on its face it’s stupid. that being said Trump has come out on top everytime the stupids/marxists have thought they’ve “got him”. when they fail miserably, publicly, “Trump gotcha-ism” it reveals how weak they are and how American Constitutional values still rule the U.S.; and, even the opposition KNOWS they have failed. legal elections with verifiable, legitimate outcomes still show how weak the marxists are and how they are only successful STEALING elections. to me the debates results mean little/nothing other than some cover for illegal election outcomes. when we have picture IDs and all votes cast at polling places we will be fine. getting legal voters to the polls has NEVER been a real problem. mail-in voting has always been a real problem and always corrupt in my 74 years.
This is absolutely insane if not totally stupid. This has to be another RINO Ronna McDaniel maneuver to destroy the party.
Have the Republicans gone berserk? This is like the chicken going into the foxes den. Where can real conservatives go now? Looks like the Independent Party is the place to go. The Republican Party always seems to be afraid of the DemonRats. When the Republicans have the majority in the House or the Senate, they waste the opportunity to win for conservatives. It makes me not to want to vote.
There are a number of so-called republicans hiding their leftist ideology in sheep’s clothing. Endorsing and seeking left-leaning media to sponsor the primary debates is a deliberate maneuver and attack to pollute the process. This must not happen; Republicans deserve fairness and honesty in the primaries and all election processes–which has not happened in years.
Each of the DEMOCRAT media networks would do the same thing Chris Wallace did when he “moderated” the debate . I don’t trust them to produce any debates , especially GOP Primary debates . Put the GOP Primary debates on both Newsmax and OANN . AND , place a REAL moderator there to conduct the debates . Lets make the GOP Primary debates 100% Republican . Each candidate should be asked the exact same question . With the only differences being when one candidate asks another candidate a question he or she wants to ask . The moderator should be 100% nutral . Candidates should be allowed to attack or ask each other any question they want .
STUPID A/HOLES. DUMB MFs………..
ATTENTION RNC (aka RINO Ronna McDaniel), for a fresh and FAIR CHANGE, how about negotiating with and insisting on Newsmax, One America News Network, Americas Voice, and Fox News, just to name a few, to moderate ANY and ALL debates?
Unless you are currently ‘negotiating’ with America’s truly corrupt media ENEMIES just to ‘look fair’ in considering them, you sure as hell better NOT agree to allow ANY of the radical, Left-wing, America-hating, socialist news outlets to be moderators for any debate.
the debates are no longer worth watching. like so much else, they have become tools to make conservatives look foolish. won’t waste my time.