Do you find it annoying when the media tries to pit candidates against each other?

[Anonymous]

I was watching clip that featured Chuck Todd from Meet The Press interviewing presidential candidate Doug Burgum, who's governor of North Dakota and pressuring him to make a statement about Donald Trump and the indictments 🙄. Now I'm a moderate democrat but I've considered voting Republican or even third party in various political races. I am from North Dakota and though I don't agree with Doug Burgum's antiabortion stance he's indicated that he thinks it issue should be left to the states which I could get behind in a presidential candidate.

The video below though really irritated me, why make a candidate say anything one way or another about another candidates legal trouble, even if it is Trump. Chuck Todd even annoying acts angry that Doug Burgum won't irresponsibly declare Trump guilty or indicate if he'd pardon him.

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2024-election/gop-candidate-doug-burgum-reluctant-talk-trump-indictments-rcna100197

I think Doug Burgum handled this perfectly and showed how intelligent he is, I will be rooting for him to rule that debate stage on Wednesday.

P. S. I hate to post this anon but politics have become so divisive these days.

Yes, I find it annoying that the host tried to pit a candidate against another.

No, I don't find it annoying that the host tried to pit a candidate against another.

Something else.

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8 mo

Perhaps I shouldn’t have posted this question in the middle of the night.

[matchrestore]

As a fellow North Dakotan I've been disappointed by Doug's performance in the presidential primary race. His strength was his relative independence from party politics in my opinion. He used to avoid social issues to concentrate on economic and business issues. He's been much more of a supporter of higher education as governor than as a presidential candidate. He could have leaned into he and his wife's work on Recovery Reinvented when fentanyl was brought up in the debate but he went straight to the southern border. His campaign's co-opting of the "try that in a small town" controversy was also very disappointing to me. He had a lot of potential but by pandering to the base he's just an unknown name with nothing new to offer on the national stage.

[Asker]

Yeah and he wasn't very strong in the debates either. I was really hoping that would be his moment to shine but that didn't really happen.

[Anonymous]

Chuck Todd is a schmuck.

[Asker]

Yeah and he’s not the only one. I just don’t see why it matters what other candidates think about each other. If they all have good ideas they can share that with the American people and the voters can decide who they think is most qualified,

[Opinion Owner]

I agree.