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MSNBC will host “candidate events” with four presidential candidates on Wednesday — one night after CNN hosts a town hall with the three GOP hopefuls. Yes, it’s come to that. MSNBC’s event will include GOP candidates John Kasich and Donald Trump and Dem candidates Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders and begins at 7 PM…

CNN's full-primetime special of interviews with each of the five presidential candidates logged 1.8 million viewers last night. In the news demo, the special, which included live and taped interviews with the remaining Dem and GOP candidates, clocked 592K news demo viewers, edging past FNC’s 588K. In overall haul, CNN…

UPDATE with Fox News plans: CNN said today it will host all five presidential candidates, including Donald Trump and John Kasich, on Monday, March 21 from 8-11 PM ET. That’s the night Fox News Channel had announced the next GOP debate, only to pull the plug two days later when Trump said he would not show up, and…

Donald Trump celebrated his incineration of the Republican Party establishment at a press conference tonight in his Palm Spring, FL, club Mar A Lago, after thumping Sen. Marco Rubio in Florida, taking Illinois and North Carolina and heading toward his 20th state, with stats still coming in. Having started in a field…

Fox News Channel has booked one-hour interviews and voter Q&As with each of the four remaining Republican candidates across its entire Wednesday primetime – a potential nose-punch to CNN’s GOP debate the next night and, perhaps, CNN’s Democratic debate on Wednesday. FNC’s town-hall-palooza begins at 7 PM ET tomorrow…

Sunday’s Beltway shows should be humdingers after this week’s yeasty episode of reality competition series Road Rage to the White House. NBC’s Meet the Press has booked Mitt Romney — the 2012 GOP nominee brought out of his Hyperbaric Dignity Chamber (Stephen Colbert 3/3/16) by the Republican Party on Thursday to…

An average of 14.5 million viewers watched CNN and Telemundo’s presentation of GOP presidential candidates brawling on stage from Houston, TX, according to Nielsen Fast National data. Among adults 25-54, 4.7 million watched the fracas on the two networks. These combined-network stats make it the fifth-highest among…

GOP presidential hopeful John Kasich braved Stephen Colbert’s show last night to pitch his candidacy and dodge questions as to whether President  Obama should nominate a replacement for the late Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia. Mostly, he insisted, “people are getting tired of the negative” in this year’s…

Updated with Rand Paul statement, 6 PM: Rand Paul says he’s boycotting Thursday night’s GOP primary debate after being relegated to the kids table. “I won’t participate in anything that’s not first tier because we have a first-tier campaign,” the Kentucky senator told CNN’s Wolf Blitzer moments before Fox Business Net…

After first pronouncing Donald Trump a joke, then a flash in the pan, then phenom, then a danger, a threat and a KKK talking point, TV news operations might be moving into a new self-flagellation phase. The morning, for instance, CNN — after feasting on Don Lemon’s extensive interview with the candidate about his plan…