Bossie: RNC might cut out networks if primary debates aren't reformed

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

Source: Politico

The Republican National Committee would consider circumventing major television networks if the presidential debate process is not overhauled, Citizens United President David Bossie said Friday.

“We don't need to count on just the networks,” Bossie told conservative radio host Hugh Hewitt. “There are so many opportunities out there, so many platforms out there that we can go to and partner with to get the message out.”

Bossie was light on the details about what GOP debates without a partner network would look like, noting that the RNC is still early in its process for 2024 debate planning. Officials from both political parties exert more control over how their respective primary debates are structured, something that Bossie — who is helping to lead the RNC reform effort — said his party is actively exploring.

Both political parties have historically partnered with news networks to stage primary debates, as opposed to general election debates which are put on by the Commission on Presidential Debates, which has overseen those forums since 1988. Bossie, in his interview with Hewitt, said that Republicans have been especially dismayed by what he characterized as grandstanding moderators.

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Hey dumbass. You're not going to win much of anything without a few independents voting GOP. If debates are not broadcast fewer people are going to vote for your party. But hey don't let me stop you.

[TheRealNorth]

1. Sounds good to me

[LogicFirst]

27. Me, too.

[bearsfootball516]

2. Go for it.

The major networks can just host primetime 2 hour town halls with the Democratic candidate.

[onetexan]

41. was gonna say, no loss for Dems here

dumb asses

[EarlG]

3. Lol

The point of these debates used to be to get your candidates on the biggest possible stage so that the broadest possible audience can see how great your ideas are.

Funny how the RNC is now, "Er, let's not do that."

This way, they can have their "Trump is God/Evolution is a hoax/Jewish space lasers/Vaccines make you magnetic" debate and just target it directly at the nutjobs on social media, without having to embarrass themselves on a national stage. (It won't work of course, since the news networks will simply show greatest hits clips from the debates after they air.)

[pressbox69]

39. Ideas?

Ideas are like Covid to Republicans.

[tanyev]

4. LOL, ok.

[Midnight Writer]

5. They're going to go to their room, lock the door, and put up a sign saying No Libz Alowed!

[kimbutgar]

6. Please proceed more people still watch network TV

Make yourself the fringe party too chicken to debate in a public venue!

[TomDaisy]

7. BUH BYE

[pecosbob]

16. Precisely my response.

[ck4829]

8. "Light on the details" Oh I know what they want

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Trump in the center, giant golden throne, and a banner that declares him "The REAL President"

Critical Race Theory

[tinrobot]

10. Or maybe a boardroom TV set where he fires random candidates.

Seems like a tested concept.

[quakerboy]

9. Yall seem to be missing the "primary" part

This takes their primary off screen, and obscuring even a part of the early infighting and crazy stuff that will be said there is good for the Qop.

[Xoan]

12. Good for the loons.

Snort.

[summer_in_TX]

20. Since they almost certainly will anoint Trump who is already well-known,

that makes sense.

We need Americans to see the infighting and the crazy stuff.

[Vinca]

11. Okay, Bossie, what Democrat paid you to do this?

[NoMoreRepugs]

13. So controlled debates to craft messaging - hmmmm, more Nazi-ish every day.

[BobTheSubgenius]

14. Damn, those feet are elusive.

But I believe in them. If they just keep shooting, I'm positive they'll them. At least one.

[AZLD4Candidate]

15. So we'll miss 90 minutes of rich white men telling us every sexist, racist, xenophobic, homophobic,

elitist, fake-populistic dog whistle and lie we can stomach?

Failing to see the problem here. Have at it, Hoss.

[lagomorph777]

17. OK.

Fine by me!

[Cryptoad]

18. whoa,,,,,,,,

don't throw me in that briar patch.......O!

[summer_in_TX]

19. Don't want grandstanding moderators?

Turn it over to the League of Women Voters' moderators.

[ruet]

21. "There are so many opportunities out there, so many platforms out there that we can go...

...to and partner with to get the message out.”

Someone seems to have a fundamental misunderstanding of what "debate" means.

[OldBaldy1701E]

36. A common misunderstanding in this country. (n/t)

[KG]

22. life is so unfair if you're a gopper

[localroger]

23. Everyone knows the Republican primaries will be shit shows

...what with the conflict between the traditional corporatists (who still control most of the money) and the Trump crazies (who can numerically outvote the corporatists in a primary). The last thing either side wants is a messy public spectacle that's largely controlled by an entity they have no control over. Both sides probably hope to influence the format of the debates to their advantage, and a likely outcome is that they won't come to an agreement and there won't be any Republican primary debates.

[OnlinePoker]

24. It was the RNC primary format that allowed Trump to insult his way to the White House.

If it hadn't been for that format, his hateful, no substance message would never have gotten ingrained in the minds of half the population.

[area51]

25. Please proceed.

[bahboo]

26. RNC is unencumbered by common sense....

morans....

[azureblue]

28. actually, what he is saying

is the GOP field will be a collection of nuts, loonies, cultists, and crazies, and the GOP doesn't want the world to see them go nuts on public TV.

[mahina]

32. Agreed

Sadly

[pressbox69]

40. I think

the cat is already long out of that bag.

[bucolic_frolic]

29. What would be the point of citizens listening to autocrats?

Autocrats gonna do what they're gonna do. They won't listen to citizens, voters, journalists, scientists, historians, logic, or reason.

The GOP has sown the seeds of its own destruction. They have announced a destination and everyone knows it.

[keithbvadu2]

30. Call their bluff.

Call their bluff.

Trump skipped one debate and trotted right back on stage.

[LakeArenal]

31. All news agencies should refuse to televise. Let Fux Youz cover it.

Make it pay per view so only the currently rabid will pay to see it.

[monkeyman1]

33. I can just hear it now !! " we run a clean campaigns" no election fraud!! ( gag) !

[Mawspam2]

34. Please let all of your primary debates be on OANN.

Nobody watches that shart. Please bury your debates as deep as possible, you inbred humps.

[BradAllison]

35. Every candidate has to orally service Trump to open the debate? n/m

[Mopar151]

37. The Bossie family?

Most useless, amoral RW sycophants you can find anywhere. Daddy Leigh ran a little RW "shopper" weekly out of Hillsboro (NH), became part of the RW/Bircher "minor league" that has a strong presence in NH.

[Politicub]

38. This is their stupid way of trying to quash republicans primaries so they

can nominate their heir apparent without inconvenient democracy getting in the way.

[EndlessWire]

42. This is just stupid.

But, I don't need a debate to tell me I ain't never, ever gonna vote for a Repub for anything. Ever.

I remember Joe telling Orange Man to shut up, because tRumpy kept interrupting with nasty comments. Is that the structure they want, something that allows Trump to control what is said? Good luck with that. I think that most everybody would be okay with Trump staying home. We would only be watching to see if he put his pants on backwards, anyway.

If you can't take the heat, stay out of the kitchen. If you have no platform (that's probably what's wrong here) and can't say something intelligent, better seek reform so you don't have to worry about it, as we see here. What losers!

Joe/Kamala 2024