Subject: Fwd: question
From: "Wei, Shu-Yen" <[email-masked]>
To: "Walker, Eric" <[email-masked]>, "Paustenbach, Mark" <[email-masked]>, "Miranda, Luis" <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 20 May 2016 06:38:45 -0700

Do you guys have any idea on this? I don't know anything about debate negotiations

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From: "Fritze, John" <[email-masked]<mailto:[email-masked]>>
Date: May 20, 2016 at 9:15:03 AM EDT
To: "[email-masked]<mailto:[email-masked]>" <[email-masked]<mailto:[email-masked]>>
Subject: question

I have a question I am hoping someone there can help me with on background, attributable to a "Democratic official" or whatever terms we negotiate.

Regarding the primary election debates, does anyone there know definitively whether the presidential campaigns negotiate the share of questions they will receive (40% of the questions asked, 50%, etc.), or is that something the network has license to decide? During the general election debate, I'm told, an equal number of questions is a negotiated point.  But how does it work for the primary?

Thanks much for any guidance.

John Fritze
Washington correspondent
The Baltimore Sun
Mobile: 202-570-6574
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