Although the meeting resulted in a mutually beneficial agreement for all campaigns present, there were still areas of disagreement between them.
Additionally, this arrangement permanently thwarts any future attempts by the RNC to manage the debate process, even as chief RNC spokesperson Sean Spicer claims the Committee respects the campaigns’ joint decision to negotiate directly with the networks.
As Breitbart reports:
“During the meeting, too, according to Costa and Weigel, former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush’s campaign manager Danny Diaz pushed unsuccessfully for Telemundo to get reinstated as a moderator—something Trump would boycott.
‘Bush campaign manager Danny Diaz recommended that Telemundo be reinstated after being dropped along with NBC,’ Costa and Weigel wrote. ‘But the campaign of businessman Donald Trump, represented by manager Corey Lewandowski, threatened to boycott a debate if the Spanish-language network that Trump has clashed with was granted one.’
Telemundo was supposed to partner with NBC News, but after CNBC’s horrendous moderating job in Boulder, Colorado, last week lost its upcoming debate along with partner network NBC News.
This revelation also means a last-ditch effort by the RNC to keep control of the process has failed. Politico reported right before the meeting that the RNC named a new official to handle debates along with Spicer. Politico’s Mike Allen quoted RNC chief of staff Katie Walsh as having emailed campaign managers for all 14 GOP candidates’ campaign managers half an hour before the meeting to say she has placed RNC Chief Operating Officer (COO) Sean Cairncross in charge of the debates with Spicer.
‘I have asked Sean Cairncross, Chief Operating Officer of the RNC and former Chief Counsel to take the central role in the debate process, specifically as it pertains to working with Sean Spicer and negotiating with the networks,’ Walsh emailed the campaign managers.”
Whether this arrangement will ultimately help the GOP campaigns remains to be seen.
Source: Breitbart.com
You all suck. All of you act like jr. High hormonal kids.
Can’t even get a debate to work because they can’t control the questions…. How can they be president?
STF up you liberal idiot.
I love the sound of freedom. Let it ring long and loud. All the Liberal Progressive Socialist to include the left stream media can go to democrat hell. 😉 I want my Country back. Socialism SUCKS!!!
Tell ’em why you mad son! C’mon bob, don’t hate me because your candidates act like children
They should have a Republican Comindators!
Communizium !
Yeah! Your Brainwashed! You actually believe what ever they tell you.
Ruth White you’re not your. Sorry. I had to say it.