“What you’re doing by allowing NBC to host these debates is rewarding them for years of bad coverage,” Federalist Culture Editor Emily Jashinsky explained on “The Megyn Kelly Show.” “You’re putting your candidates in a risky situation. For a Republican primary voter, these candidates should be taking very tough questions. There’s no if, and, or but about that. They should be facing the toughest possible questions but they should be questions that allow Republican voters to suss out the contrast from their point of interest. And Kristen Welker is not channeling the interests of the average Republican voter very well.”
