How long will the Republican Party fall into traps set for them by the Democratic Party? Will the leadership ever wake up?

After the debate between Donald Trump and Kamala Harris, the right-leaning commentariat railed in unison against the awful job performed by the two ABC moderators. “It was three against one!” “They fact-checked Donald Trump five times but never once Harris!” “They accused Trump of being bad and then forced him to defend himself.” And on and on. Every commentator on every conceivable platform complained about the lopsided performance of David Muir and Linsey Davis. News flash to the world: The Republicans agreed to this format. Someone signed off on it—was it Donald Trump or his daughter-in-law, Lara, who is the head of the Republican National Committee? This was no ambush: the Republicans agreed to have ABC choose partisan hacks to act as the moderators. And this is a problem that keeps recurring: the Republican leaders are taken for chumps.

Does anyone over at Republican headquarters recall CNN partisan Candy Crowley? Does anyone remember how she joined the debate on Barack Obama’s side against Mitt Romney? So over 12 years, Republicans could not figure out that the way that debates are arranged are not for their benefit? Virtually every major network is a leftwing mouthpiece of the Democratic Party. Why would they assume that their employees would give the Republican candidate a fair shake? This is a known problem and time after time Republicans walk right into it and get burned each time again. The moderators ask the Republican tough........

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