Showing posts with label Republican Presidential Debate. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Republican Presidential Debate. Show all posts

Thursday, July 30, 2015

"Trump... Will Finally Be Confronted, Face To Face, By His Rivals"

"Trump... Will Finally Be Confronted, Face To Face, By His Rivals"

July 30, 2015 Donald Trump , Prep Challenging For Candidates 0 Comments

Trump’s Presence In First GOP Debate Makes Prep Challenging For Candidates

By Dan Balz and Robert Costa,
July 29, 2015 Washington Post

Next week’s Republican presidential debate in Cleveland marks not only the inaugural formal gathering of the expansive GOP field but also the start of a new and unpredictable chapter in an already raucous 2016 race.

Under the bright studio lights on the shores of Lake Erie on Aug. 6, ambitions will be showcased, positions staked, and Donald Trump, who has consumed the summer’s political headlines, will finally be confronted, face to face, by his rivals.

“There is more downside than upside for most candidates, and the first goal is to try not to self-destruct,” said former House speaker Newt Gingrich, who ran for the GOP nomination in 2012.

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Friday, June 12, 2015

We're Going To Need A Bigger Boat

June 12, 2015 National Journal , Republican Presidential Debate 0 Comments
Fox Plans Second-Tier Debate In Response To Threat From N.H. Newspaper 

By Tim Alberta, Jun. 10, 2015, National Journal

Fox News has changed its plan for the first Republican presidential debate to give second-tier candidates some airtime after a New Hampshire newspaper announced its own competing forum for B-list contenders.

According to plans announced late Wednesday, Fox now will host a 90-minute televised forum in Cleveland on the afternoon of August 6 for​ ​Republican candidates who fail to qualify for that ​evening's 90-minute debate.

RNC officials and campaign staffers had been pressuring Fox for weeks to do exactly this, some even predicting that the vacuum would be filled by another media outlet. A Fox spokeswoman challenged the notion that Fox had changed its plans, saying the cable network always intended to cover the candidates who did not make the prime-time cut.

The announcement capped a chaotic three-hour stretch that began when the New Hampshire Union-Leader published a story announcing it would host a forum on August 6.

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