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In promoting the upcoming Democratic presidential debate Saturday night on CBS with moderator John Dickerson, Stephen Colbert lamented during Thursday’s Late Show that Republicans have a reputation of “roughing up the referee in these debates, like the CNBC guys got slapped around a little bit by the Republican candidates” and wondered if he “expect[ed] the Democrats to do the same?”
Speaking remotely from the debate hall in Iowa, Dickerson commiserated by responding that Democrats “don’t really have that tradition” and pointed to Newt Gingrich’s 2012 campaign that included him “beating up the press and it worked really well for him.”