'It will be the margarita of debates': Megyn Kelly and others to serve as moderators of next GOP presidential primary debate



Megyn Kelly, Washington Free Beacon editor in chief Eliana Johnson, and NewsNation's Elizabeth Vargas will moderate the fourth Republican presidential primary debate of the 2024 election cycle, which is slated to occur December 6 in Tuscaloosa, Alabama.

"I am thrilled to announce that the RNC has sanctioned the fourth Republican primary debate in Alabama with NewsNation, 'The Megyn Kelly Show,' the Washington Free Beacon, and Rumble as our partners. With less than a year out from Election Day 2024, the fourth debate stage will showcase our winning Republican agenda against Biden's record of failure," Republican National Committee chair Ronna McDaniel said, according to a press release.

"It will be the margarita of debates – spicy, fun and somewhat intoxicating. Looking forward to it," Kelly said, according to the press release.

"The Free Beacon is excited to partner with 'The Megyn Kelly Show' and NewsNation to offer the candidates a debate platform outside of the mainstream media echo chamber and to give Republican primary voters a debate where conservative ideas and values will be the terrain and not the target," Johnson said, according to the press release.

Five candidates participated Wednesday night in the third GOP presidential primary debate of the 2024 election cycle, but former President Donald Trump, who has been trouncing the rest of the Republican primary field in polls, was not in attendance at the event in Miami, Florida. Trump, who held a rally in Hialeah, Florida, on Wednesday night, has not attended any of the first three debates so far.

The third debate was moderated by Lester Holt, Kristen Welker, and Hugh Hewitt, but during the event, author and entrepreneur Vivek Ramaswamy said that Tucker Carlson, Joe Rogan, and Elon Musk should have been the moderators.

Ramaswamy suggested that McDaniel should resign, saying that if she wanted to get on stage and resign, he would yield his time to her.

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RFK Jr. declines to pledge to support whoever becomes the Democratic presidential nominee



Robert F. Kennedy Jr. declined to commit to backing the candidate who ends up clinching the Democratic presidential nomination.

Kennedy flatly rejected the idea, declaring that "of course" he would not make that pledge. He made the comment in response to a question from NewsNation's Elizabeth Vargas during a town hall event.

Vargas pressed the issue, asking Kennedy if, in the event he does not secure the nomination, he would not back Biden.

Kennedy indicated he does not know what he would do.

He said that his "plan is to win this election" and that he does not "have a plan b."

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Kennedy is challenging incumbent President Joe Biden in the Democratic presidential primary contest. Marianne Williamson is also running.

On the Republican side of the aisle, former President Donald Trump is the frontrunner within a sizeable field of candidates vying for the GOP presidential nomination.

During the town hall, Kennedy said that he is "proud" that Trump likes him, though he noted that he does not agree with Trump on most issues. He said that he wants to bring individuals together.

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The Democratic candidate has rejected the suggestion that he is an anti-vaccine conspiracy theorist.

"I urge people to listen to what I actually say instead of listening to the litany of derisive sound bites that the mainstream media offers to mischaracterize and distort my positions on the whole range of issues," Kennedy told the New York Post.

"I am not and have never been anti-vaccine. I've always said that I'm for safe vaccines and robust science and for regulatory agencies that are free from conflicts of interest and financial entanglements with the pharmaceutical industry. In terms of being a conspiracy theorist, tell me where I got it wrong. Show me something I've said that you believe to be factually wrong or unsupported by evidence," he said, according to the outlet.

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