There's not much you can do in a "gotcha" situation like they were shooting for.
Sure there is. Refuse to participate anymore. There is absolutely zero reason that anyone on the right should engage with the mainstream media at this point. The fact that the left has effectively been allowed to turn them into a cradle-to-grave indoctrination/propaganda system is frankly - fucking disgusting.
The right needs to focus near 100% of its energy on destroying that propaganda system. Anything short of doing that is dooming our country (just like California) to one party rule by the radical left. It's a death sentence.
Oh to be sure, he shouldn't have agreed to the debate under those rules in the first place, but once you're on the stage walking off is going to look much worse than gutting it out.
I'm of the opinion that he shouldn't have debated Biden a few months ago either, because it pretty obviously was being used as a Democrat screening tool to see if he was fit to run. If he hadn't debated Biden then, they almost certainly would have stuck with him as a candidate and he would have been completely crushed tonight even with softball questions and bogus "fact checks".
Sure there is. Refuse to participate anymore. There is absolutely zero reason that anyone on the right should engage with the mainstream media at this point. The fact that the left has effectively been allowed to turn them into a cradle-to-grave indoctrination/propaganda system is frankly - fucking disgusting.
The right needs to focus near 100% of its energy on destroying that propaganda system. Anything short of doing that is dooming our country (just like California) to one party rule by the radical left. It's a death sentence.
Oh to be sure, he shouldn't have agreed to the debate under those rules in the first place, but once you're on the stage walking off is going to look much worse than gutting it out.
I'm of the opinion that he shouldn't have debated Biden a few months ago either, because it pretty obviously was being used as a Democrat screening tool to see if he was fit to run. If he hadn't debated Biden then, they almost certainly would have stuck with him as a candidate and he would have been completely crushed tonight even with softball questions and bogus "fact checks".