Don’t expect Maria Bartiromo and Neil Cavuto to go easy on any candidates.
“If these guys can’t handle moderators, how are they gonna handle China and Russia?” Bartiromo asks, echoing President Obama. “You should be able to know that you’re going to be asked any question. It’s all fair game.”
When Bartiromo was a CNBC anchor in 2011, she tangled with Newt Gingrich, whose deflective tactic of moderator-bashing is the blueprint for tonight’s candidates.
Bartiromo was simply relentless. When the former House speaker blustered about not being given enough time to explain his health care plans, she told him with a straight face, “Take all the time you need.”
He continued to complain, so she put her foot down: “Do you want to answer the question tonight on health care or no?” His bluff backfired.
Cavuto is no slouch, either.
When Rick Santorum refused to say whether his touting of marriage as 'good for the economy' also extended to same-sex couples, Cavuto put the screws on him. The Fox host calmly mentioned the scenario multiple times to the indignant former senator, who effectively hanged himself with non-answers.
After House Republicans announced a plan to sue Obama over his executive orders back in 2014, Cavuto called Michele Bachmann "silly" on-air and told her, to her face, that Republicans were hypocrites for haranguing the president over the same principles they violate when their party is in power.
Cavuto, Bartiromo, and
Wall Street Journal editor Gerard Baker will face Trump, Carson, and Cruz—all of whom have made their beef with the so-called mainstream media a crux of their strategies.
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