Breitbart reports that Republican presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswami will appear on CNN's Republican presidential debate live on Jan. 10 with podcaster Tim Poole in Des Moines, Iowa. It was revealed on the news.
Ramaswamy's campaign announced in a press release first shared with Breitbart News that Ramaswamy will be joining the pool of hosts. tim castfor an 8 p.m. ET event that will directly compete with the debate.
Ramaswamy's campaign highlighted multiple grievances against CNN in the “ratings wilderness”, including threats of cancellation and suspension that the campaign allegedly received from the network after posting Ramaswamy's CNN town hall on the campaign's YouTube account. ing.
The campaign also claims the network is “handpicking” its polls in selecting Republican candidates who meet voting criteria for the Jan. 10 debate.
Ramaswamy's team posted the video to his YouTube page after his campaign claimed that a Dec. 13 CNN town hall in Iowa was “disgracefully terminated” by the network. By Dec. 14, the campaign said the network had threatened to remove the video once it reached 200,000 views.Meanwhile, a CNN town hall posted against Nikki Haley's campaign with 68,000 views remains saw It's on her page as of this writing.
The campaign also accused the network of “handpicking” polls that met the debate's requirements.
Entrepreneur Vivek Ramaswami speaks during the 4th Republican presidential primary debate at the University of Alabama in Tuscaloosa, Alabama, on December 6, 2023, referring to former South Carolina governor and United Nations ambassador Nikki Haley. He holds up a placard that says “Nikki = Corruption.” (Jim Watson/AFP via Getty)
Among the requirements announced in December, CNN said that for candidates to be eligible to participate in debates, they must “attempt three national and/or Iowa sessions targeting Republican caucus attendees and primary voters. Separate polls have shown that a candidate must earn a 10% approval rating to meet CNN's coverage standards.
ramaswami collected According to FiveThirtyEight, a Morning Consult poll of 337 likely Iowa voters conducted from November 1 to 30 found his approval rating at 13%. But the campaign said the network would not consider the vote to meet its requirements. Notably, the network removed Morning Consult from its list of polling organizations that meet its “reporting standards” in a Dec. 7 release.
Ramaswamy's team also pointed to multiple instances in which CNN personalities, including media reporter Oliver Darcy, were fair toward candidates. Ahead of Ramaswamy's CNN town hall in December, Darcy said: I have written The Reliable Sources Newsletter said the network is “helping to legitimize a dishonest Republican presidential candidate who has told dangerous lies and injected venom into the national debate at every opportunity.”
Similarly, CNN political commentator Van Jones said after the third Republican presidential debate in September that he was “trembling” while listening to Ramaswamy's speech and that the candidate was “shocked by Nazi propaganda.” “I was one step away from leaving,” he said.
