GOP Campaigns Meet to Rethink Debates

Several Republican presidential campaigns “began mapping out new demands Sunday for greater control over the format and content of primary debates, which have attracted big audiences and become strategically critical for the 2016 cycle’s expansive field of contenders,” the Washington Post reports.

“The effort was a response to long-simmering frustrations over the debates, the questions and in some cases the moderators, which boiled over this weekend when advisers from at least 11 campaigns met in the Washington suburbs to deliberate about how to regain sway over the process.”

“The private gathering became the latest twist in what has been a turbulent season of debates for the GOP, with less popular candidates — including a sitting senator and governor — furious about being relegated to a little-watched ‘undercard’ debate and the front-runners dismayed by a process they have described as a disastrous brew of bias and arbitrary rules.”