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Not Trapping Candidates into “Gotcha” Answers

August 19, 2015 By Debbie Young

“I’m not gunning for anyone the way the [Fox News] panel was after Donald Trump,” said Hugh Hewitt, the conservative talk show host and one of CNN’s moderators of the next GOP debate.

Trying to trap candidates into ‘gotcha’ answers does not serve GOP primary voters. Allowing the candidates to speak directly to voters on electability and their plans if they win does.

I am not ‘for’ or ‘against’ any of the candidates,” Hewitt says. “All are talented, experienced people with large numbers of people already supporting them. The debates should help undecided GOP primary voters make up their minds who should be the nominee.

NRO’s Jim Geraghty writes that Hewitt was disappointed in the first debate over the lack of focus on national security and that the Iran deal and Hillary Clinton’s server and missing emails were barely mentioned.

Read more here about Mr. Hewitt, who wants viewers who tune into the September 16 CNN debate to be talking about the candidates’ answers, not Hugh Hewitt’s questions.

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Debbie Young
Debbie, our chief political writer of Richardcyoung.com, is also our chief domestic affairs writer, a contributing writer on Eastern Europe and Paris and Burgundy, France. She has been associate editor of Dick Young’s investment strategy reports for over five decades. Debbie lives in Key West, Florida, and Newport, Rhode Island, and travels extensively in Paris and Burgundy, France, cooking on her AGA Cooker, driving through Vermont and Maine, and practicing yoga. Debbie has completed the 200-hour Krama Yoga teacher training program taught by Master Instructor Ruslan Kleytman. Debbie is a strong supporting member of the NRA.
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