Chris Wallace sounded a little bit wistful, and a little bit wry. “There would have been a certain man-bites-dog quality to it: the Democrats showing up on Fox.”But Mr. Wallace, the “Fox News Sunday” moderator, had to put aside his hope for a Fox News-sponsored Democratic primary debate on Wednesday, when Democratic officials rejected the idea in an unusually sharp rebuke. “To be banned, or boycotted, for the 12 debates over the next year, is kind of stunning,” he said in his first extended comments on the matter. “There are a lot of voters that a Democrat is going to need to get elected president who watch Fox News. People in the Rust Belt states, the rural areas that Hillary Clinton lost.

Source: New York Times March 07, 2019 21:42 UTC