RNC Rule Change Could Put Conservatives In Charge At Primary Debates

by Sam Rolley 
Republican National Committee Communications Director Sean Spicer recently said that the GOP organization is making moves to include more moderators from conservative media outlets in the Republican primary debates leading up to the 2016 Presidential election.
The RNC voted last week to change debate rules to allow more openly conservative moderators from organizations like Breitbart, The Daily Caller and Newsmax to lead the primary debates.
“The party is actually going to have a greater say in our Republican primary debates,” Spicer told Newsmax’s Steve Malzberg in an interview. “For too long it has been the media who has decided when we’re going to debate, who is going to be in the debate, what questions we’re going ask, what subjects are going to be covered.”
Spicer said that part of the reason conservative journalists should lead the primary debates is that “the liberal media does not have the interest of the party at hand.” The RNC official also insisted that conservative moderators would be tougher on GOP candidates.

“Some of the folks in the media try to prepare this as, ‘Oh, you guys don’t want to face tough questions.’ This has nothing to tough questions,” Spicer said. “Anyone who has … read Breitbart or The Daily Caller, knows that conservative media is a heckuva lot tougher than mainstream media, but they’re focused on the issues that matter to conservatives and grassroots activists, as opposed to the left-wing liberals out there.”