Vivek Ramaswamy Slams Liberal Debate Moderators: ‘This Should Be Tucker Carlson’

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Republican presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy tore into the liberal debate moderators during Wednesday evening’s presidential debate, questioning why the media that “rigged the 2016 election” is hosting the debate.

Ramaswamy described himself upset with the results of Tuesday evening’s election results, saying that the Republican Party has “become a party of losers at the end of the day,” accusing Republican National Committee Chair Ronna McDaniel of dragging the Republican Party down.

He then criticized the debate moderators, saying, “Think about who’s moderating this debate. This should be Tucker Carlson, Joe Rogan, and Elon Musk. We’d have 10 times the viewership, asking questions that GOP primary voters actually care about and bringing more people into our party.”

“And we’ve got Kristen Welker here,” he continued, gesturing toward Welker. “Do you think the Democrats would actually hire Greg Gutfeld to host a Democratic debate? They wouldn’t do it.”

He then honed in on NBC host Welker, saying, “I’m going to use this time because this is about you and the media and the corrupt media establishment. The Trump-Russia collusion hoax that you pushed on this network for years, was that real or was that Hillary Clinton made-up disinformation? Answer the question. Go!”

“We need accountability because this media rigged the 2016 election,” he added. “They rigged the 2020 election with the Hunter Biden laptop story, and they are going to rig this election … “

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