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2024-09-12 Home Front: Politix
Did Someone Leak the Debate Questions to Kamala Harris?
[Townhall] It's a fair question. Why? Because it’s happened before. It’s not some tin foil hat, pie-in-the-sky conspiracy theory: Democrats hired by major news networks have fed debate questions to their party’s presidential nominees. While many analyses and polls are being discussed about the ABC News debate on Tuesday, what about the possibility that Harris got the questions in advance?

To tee this up, let’s not forget that Donna Brazile gave the Clinton campaign the questions before the CNN debate:

Former Democratic National Committee interim chair Donna Brazile acknowledged sending town hall topics to Hillary Clinton’s campaign, calling it a "mistake I will forever regret."

Brazile wrote in an essay for Time magazine that she shared potential topics for a CNN town hall with the Clinton campaign in her role as a Democratic operative and the DNC vice chair.

"My job was to make all our Democratic candidates look good, and I worked closely with both campaigns to make that happen," she wrote. "But sending those emails was a mistake I will forever regret."

WikiLeaks posted emails from Brazile to the Clinton campaign that tipped it off that a woman from Flint, Michigan, would ask Clinton about the situation there for a town hall. Brazile also told the campaign that Clinton would be asked about the death penalty at a separate town hall.

CNN dropped Brazile as a contributor after the revelations. When the email alerting the Clinton campaign about the death penalty question was released, Brazile suggested the documents were "misinformation."
Posted by Besoeker 2024-09-12 08:23|| || Front Page|| [11140 views ]  Top

#1 Yes
Posted by Seeking Cure For Ignorance 2024-09-12 09:21||   2024-09-12 09:21|| Front Page Top

#2 Leaked? No, they were provided beforehand by ABC as was always intended.
Posted by Procopius2k 2024-09-12 09:29||   2024-09-12 09:29|| Front Page Top

#3 
How about a debate where the candidates each submit 5 questions? At the start of the debate.

The questions are not of a personal nature, because this isn't "The View".

The questions are strictly related to how either of the 2 would handle important government situations. Like civil rights, border control, budget controls, taxes, etc. Then themselves explain why they handled each the way they did, while in office, or would if in office.

Allowing a followup comment when each is finished.


Posted by NN2N1 2024-09-12 10:04||   2024-09-12 10:04|| Front Page Top

#4 I'm at Team Harris gave the questions to ABC, what all the negotiations were about; for example accidentally reminding Harris of 'question' ques.
Posted by swksvolFF 2024-09-12 10:16||   2024-09-12 10:16|| Front Page Top

#5 No, they were provided beforehand by ABC as was always intended.

Provided *by* ABC or provided *to* ABC? Much easier to promote the Party's message that way.
Posted by SteveS 2024-09-12 10:21||   2024-09-12 10:21|| Front Page Top

#6 The opening line about ABC not sharing questions with participants, as the meme goes, was a strange thing to say. In fact, lawyerly thing to say.
Posted by swksvolFF 2024-09-12 10:38||   2024-09-12 10:38|| Front Page Top

#7 Just a bit too much shi* in the game:

https://americanliberty.news/media/megyn-kelly-rips-debate-moderators-for-joining-kamala-harris/sdrake/2024/09/
Posted by Besoeker 2024-09-12 10:50||   2024-09-12 10:50|| Front Page Top

#8 No, Kamala Harris wasn’t wearing these audio earrings
Posted by Skidmark 2024-09-12 12:12||   2024-09-12 12:12|| Front Page Top

#9 Just ask Donna Brazile.
Posted by Abu Uluque 2024-09-12 13:41||   2024-09-12 13:41|| Front Page Top

#10 #6 has it!
Demokrats lie with partial truth and inference. You catch the lie by noting the curious partial truth. Why else are the partial truth statement so precisely worded?
Posted by NoMoreBS 2024-09-12 14:09||   2024-09-12 14:09|| Front Page Top

#11 Ever since Obumble (and most likely before) they have leaked the questions, fed answers to the candidates, and most likely had audio for them.

Just expect them to be cheating fucktards all the time and you won't be wrong.
Posted by DarthVader 2024-09-12 15:58||   2024-09-12 15:58|| Front Page Top

#12 /\ I'm going with #11.
Posted by Besoeker 2024-09-12 16:05||   2024-09-12 16:05|| Front Page Top

#13 #6 - best covered by the DNC feeding both ABC and the Kamala campaign the same script. Technically, ABC can say that lawyerly line with a straight face.
Posted by Procopius2k 2024-09-12 16:55||   2024-09-12 16:55|| Front Page Top

#14 Yup.

I does beg a question, they afraid of a leak? Court disclosure?
Posted by swksvolFF 2024-09-12 19:56||   2024-09-12 19:56|| Front Page Top

#15 Black Injun with Fist

Harris dances
As news hounds discuss her new stances.
"Kam, any suggestions?"
"Uh... gimme them questions!"
"Just answers."
[askance]
"Why take chances?"
Posted by Pancho Poodle8452 2024-09-12 20:22||   2024-09-12 20:22|| Front Page Top

#16 BREAKING: Former Clinton Advisor Calls For Internal Investigation Into ABC for Rigging Presidential Debate Against Trump (VIDEO)
Posted by Anomalous Sources 2024-09-12 22:11||   2024-09-12 22:11|| Front Page Top

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