Debates

On Morning Joe, former Biden press secretaru Jen Psaki admits that Democrats are "fearful" about the midterms, and that their worries have gotten "worse over the last week or so.:But Mika Brzezinski parrots John Fetterman's claim to Joy Reid that he will be "much, much better by January but Dr. Oz will still be a fraud. 

New York Times reporters Patricia Mazzei and Maggie Astor reported on Monday evening’s one and only debate in the Florida governor’s race, pitting sitting Republican Ron DeSantis against Democrat and former state governor Charlie Crist. But under the guise of fighting misinformation on abortion and transgender issues by Ron DeSantis, the reporters spread their own: "....asked whether…

Like rescuers sifting through the rubble for signs of life after a building collapse, Mika Brzezinski did her brave best on behalf of her fellow Democrat, John Fetterman. Even so, she strained credulity well beyond the breaking point with this line: "Given that he did have a stroke, some might be surprised, how well he did."

With things continuing to break against their liberal pals running for office, the major broadcast networks chose Thursday to spend nearly eight minutes (seven minutes and 49 seconds) flaunting a second supposed abortion allegation against Georgia Republican senatorial candidate Herschel Walker with some help from far-left attorney Gloria Allred to boost incumbent Senator Raphael Warnock (D…

A nasty surprise for Tiffany Cross in the segment of her MSNBC show on the Georgia senatorial debate between Herschel Walker and Raphael Warnock. Her guests, a liberal activist and a reporter for the liberal Atlanta Journal-Constitution, both said that Walker met expectations and gave possibly wavering Republicans reasons to vote for him. Errin Haines, the liberal activist and MSNBC…

The broken clock that is ABC’s The View struck (mostly) correct on Friday as most of the cast was in favor of making cowardly Democrats debate their Republican opponents before the midterm elections in a month. Suggesting the Democrats were refusing to debate “election deniers,” the cast called it “not fair” to voters and told them participating in debates was “their job.” Only one,…

The Republican National Committee made a bold decision that the media elites treated like an anti-democratic outrage. The RNC pulled out of the allegedly bipartisan Commission on Presidential Debates. This decision is not an outrage. It’s long overdue.

On CNN’s Friday installment of New Day, John Avlon reacted to the news that the RNC has withdrawn from the Commission on Presidential Debates with one of his “reality checks” that characteristically featured plenty of pretentiousness, but not a lot of reality.

Republicans are busy acting like Republicans and Andrea Mitchell and her Thursday panel of guests on MSNBC are beside themselves. From abortion, not giving minors puberty blockers, not teaching elementary students about sexual orientation, guns, the Commission of Presidential Debates, to redistricting, she warned about the GOP’s “hard right turn.”

Maggie Haberman of The New York Times reports that the time for hardball has arrived. The Republican National Committee says it may require candidates to pledge to not participate in debates run by the Commission on Presidential Debates. In recent years, the moderators have caused controversy by insisting on "fact checking" the Republicans (and aiding the impression of victory for the…

Singling out Josh Hawley and Mark Meadows by name, on Morning Joe Joe Scarborough accuses Republicans of having their "testicle" in a Donald Trump lockbox.

With NBC’s Meet the Press host Chuck Todd set to “moderate” the second Virginia gubernatorial debate between Republican Glenn Youngkin and Democrat Terry McAuliffe Tuesday night, it’s a good time to remember how much Democratic Party spin the anchor has spewed over the past several months while covering the hotly contested race. Todd spent the spring and summer repeatedly predicting…

The Virginia gubernatorial candidates engage in their second debate tonight on WRC, the local NBC station in Washington. The moderator is Chuck Todd. That’s an interesting choice, since Chuck’s wife Kristian Denny has been active in advising and donating to Democratic candidates in Virginia, not to mention millions of dollars from two Bernie Sanders presidential campaigns.

Of all the potential GOP 2024 presidential contenders, CNN's John Berman seems to have singled out Nikki Haley for special opprobrium. Who knows whether it's out of conviction, or a sense that an Indian-American woman might pose the biggest election threat to President Biden, or, as the case may be, to Kamala Harris, who also has Indian-American heritage? Berman's beef with Haley is over what…