Newsmax execs furious with RNC over $4 million demand to carry GOP debate: report

Executives at conservative outlet Newsmax are furious with the Republican National Committee for attempts to shake them down for a $4 million commitment to carry a GOP debate.

According to a report from Axios, those complaints also include a belief that the RNC is manipulating who controls the debates.

At issue was a earlier demand for $2 million to be spent on a debate as a "junior partner" to ABC News also carrying it.

According to Alex Thompson of Axios "The RNC also approached Newsmax about being the primary sponsor for the upcoming fourth GOP debate — which will be Wednesday in Tuscaloosa, Ala. — and would have required Newsmax to spend about $4 million producing the debate."

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That, in turn, led Newsmax execs to accuse the RNC of "moving the goalposts" despite prior notice that the price was not set in stone.

In a statement, Newsmax complained, "Since the beginning of the process the RNC under [chair] Ronna McDaniel has consistently lied and obfuscated to Newsmax about us hosting a debate, so it's clear to us the RNC's goal has been to make sure anti-Trump media control the GOP debates."

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