Nets Decry ‘Raw Red Meat’ at RNC, ‘Most Conservative Platform’

Kyle Drennen | July 19, 2016
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On Tuesday, all three network morning shows worried over the Republican convention being too conservative and throwing “raw red meat” to the party base. On NBC’s Today, co-host Savannah Guthrie fretted: “Okay, let’s talk about the tone of last night. There was a lot of red meat for the base. Is that good strategy? Is this going to be a base election?”

Political analyst Nicolle Wallace replied: “[Meet the Press moderator] Chuck Todd called it raw red meat. I mean, it was really fiery stuff.” She acknowledged that several speakers provided “really compelling stories” on Monday, but declared that the night “was also marked with some really across-the-line rhetoric.”

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