By Thomas Madison
This is not good. RNC Chairman, Reince Priebus, is not only defending Fox News and Megyn Kelly for their shameless hatchet attack on Donald Trump during the first debate, he has now approved Hugh Hewitt, a well-known Trump hater as co-moderator for the next GOP debate, to take place on Sept. 16 in Simi Valley, California, at the Reagan Library.
This is yet another message from the GOP establishment to Donald Trump, screaming loudly and clearly they want nothing to do with him, and they will decide who the Republican candidate will be, not the people.
It is mind-blowing to me how stupid the Republican leadership is. They have been gifted with a charismatic, incredibly strong candidate who desires very much to be the Republican candidate, and he is leading the field by a HUGE margin. All the Republicans have to do is get behind the people’s choice and enjoy the ride all the way to the White House.
Instead, it appears, they are intent upon destroying their own party. I see this as a clear signal to Trump that he will NOT win the Republican nomination, even if he has 80% support among Repubicans, which means, of course, he explores the third party option. That is terrible news for the RNC for two reasons:
1. Best case, Trump and the eventual GOP candidate split the conservative vote, and Joe Biden wins. The Republican Party dies.
2. Trump wins in a three-way race against two very weak establishment candidates. The Republican Party definitely dies! They will get third place in a three-way race.
I believe Scenario #2 is the more probable, for this reason: Donald Trump will not run third party unless he is absolutely certain that victory is probable. He doesn’t care much for losing or wasting time. So, if The Donald runs third party, you can be assured his team has the polling data down and a solid game plan in place to win the White House.
Moral of the story: The Republican Party is STUPID!
From Matthew Boyle, Breitbart
CLEVELAND, Ohio — Republican National Committee (RNC) chairman Reince Priebus, according to an RNC spokeswoman, will stand behind Salem Communications’ Hugh Hewitt — at least for now — as a co-moderator of the next GOP debate despite Hewitt’s public criticisms of frontrunner Donald Trump’s candidacy.
On Meet The Press this Sunday, Hewitt opined that he believes Trump does not have the “temperament” to be president of the United States. He doubled down on that on Morning Joe on MSNBC on Monday morning.
“Hugh Hewitt has interviewed every major Republican candidate this cycle and demonstrated an ability to ask tough, fair and balanced questions that Republican voters care about,” Allison Moore, an RNC spokeswoman, told Breitbart News when asked in response to the Meet The Press incident whether Hewitt can be a fair moderator when he doesn’t like the GOP frontrunner. “We expect his handling of this debate to be no different.”
With Hewitt out there publicly ripping Trump on more than one occasion, it’s raised concerns that perhaps after what happened in the recent Fox News-sponsored debate that he might not be much better of a moderator. Despite the obvious efforts by Fox News to swipe at Trump—efforts that clearly failed as evidenced by post-debate polling—RNC chairman Reince Priebus defended moderators Megyn Kelly, Chris Wallace and Bret Baier on the spin room floor after the debate.
“Yeah, I think the moderators were fair,” Priebus said when asked by Breitbart News if he thought Megyn Kelly, Bret Baier and Chris Wallace were fair in the questions they asked. “The candidates have availed themselves to the process. So no one forced candidates to come on stage and answer questions so when candidates availed themselves to the process and availed themselves to the press, they opened themselves up to the process. So you know what? It really doesn’t matter whether it’s fair or not.”
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