RNC confirms third Republican debate date, tightens stage requirements

[Kamaji]

RNC confirms third Republican debate date, tightens stage requirements

By Ryan King
Published Oct. 16, 2023

The third 2024 GOP presidential primary debate will take place Wednesday, Nov. 8 in Miami, the Republican National Committee confirmed Monday — and candidates will have to step up their performance if they hope to make the stage.

The third debate, co-hosted by NBC News, will go from 8 p.m. to 10 p.m. ET, one hour earlier than the first two verbal jousts, which were co-hosted by Fox News Channel and Fox Business Network, respectively.

To qualify for the debate stage, candidates must receive contributions from 70,000 unique donors — up from 50,000 for last month’s second debate — and hit 4% in select polls, up from 3%.

Candidates must also receive at least 200 unique donors per state or territory in at least 20 of those jurisdictions.

White House contenders must also achieve either 4% in two recognized national polls or 4% in one national and 4% in one poll from two of Iowa, New Hampshire, Nevada or South Carolina — the four states that kick off the 2024 Republican primary calendar.

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Source:  https://nypost.com/2023/10/16/rnc-confirms-date-for-third-republican-primary-debate/

[Wingnut]

Step right up lady's and gentlemen, boys and girls. For one tin dime, ten cents you can see a freak show exhibiting “human oddities” including “born freaks” such as midgets, giants or persons with other deformities, or “made freaks” like tattooed people, fat people or “human skeletons and of course, GOP politicians and so called NBC's totally unbiased  debate moderators.

Limited seating and no refunds.  You buy it you own it.

[libertybele]

Step right up lady's and gentlemen, boys and girls. For one tin dime, ten cents you can see a freak show exhibiting “human oddities” including “born freaks” such as midgets, giants or persons with other deformities, or “made freaks” like tattooed people, fat people or “human skeletons and of course, GOP politicians and so called NBC's totally unbiased  debate moderators.

Limited seating and no refunds.  You buy it you own it.

 

[Kamaji]

Step right up lady's and gentlemen, boys and girls. For one tin dime, ten cents you can see a freak show exhibiting “human oddities” including “born freaks” such as midgets, giants or persons with other deformities, or “made freaks” like tattooed people, fat people or “human skeletons and of course, GOP politicians and so called NBC's totally unbiased  debate moderators.

Limited seating and no refunds.  You buy it you own it.

What?  Trump will be in this debate?

[jmyrlefuller]

The fact that the GOP is counting donors and outside money as criteria for their debates should tell you everything you need to know about their corruption.

[Right_in_Virginia]

Lester Holt, Kristen Welker and Hugh Hewitt to moderate third GOP debate
Politico, Oct 25, 2023

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.

The three will take the stage at the Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts in Miami on Nov. 8, as the remaining GOP presidential hopefuls — those who can qualify — push to break away from the pack in the polls.

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Holt, the anchor of “NBC Nightly News,” co-moderated the first Democratic presidential primary debate of the 2020 cycle, alongside fellow NBC and MSNBC reporters Savannah Guthrie, Chuck Todd, Rachel Maddow and José Diaz-Balart. He also served as the moderator for the first general election debate between Trump and Hillary Clinton in 2016.

NBC’s new “Meet the Press” host, Welker, will join Holt in Miami in November. Welker previously won praise for her role as a debate moderator, after deftly navigating the 2020 presidential debate between Joe Biden and Trump.

"Think we can all agree the winner is Kristen Welker,” “Tonight Show” host Jimmy Fallon said at the time, calling the performance a “knockout.” Welker “did a bang-up job on the largest stage of any political journalist’s career,” Playbook wrote at the time.

Hewitt is the host of the nationally syndicated “Hugh Hewitt Show,” and a contributing columnist for The Washington Post. The conservative radio host previously worked in the Reagan administration.


https://www.politico.com/news/2023/10/25/lester-holt-kristen-welker-and-hugh-hewitt-to-moderate-third-gop-debate-00123599

[Wingnut]

I fully expect fair and unbiased questions to the participants.

Lester Holt: Gov DeSantis, do you still beat your wife?