The Republican National Committee on Friday afternoon said it would pause participation in further Republican presidential primary debates, effectively leaving decisions around future debates up to media organizations and the 2024 Republican presidential candidates themselves.
“We have held four successful debates across the country with the most conservative partners in the history of a Republican primary,” the Republican National Committee (RNC)'s Committee on Presidential Debates said in a statement. “We have no RNC debates scheduled in January and any debates currently scheduled are not affiliated with the RNC.”
“It is now time for Republican primary voters to decide who will be our next President and candidates are free to use any forum or format to communicate to voters as they see fit,” the committee said.
Bernie was used (without his knowledge, they were hoping Bernie would run as a 3rd party, but it still worked) to upset progressives and keep them from voting. Low turnout for Clinton was what secured a win for trump.
I think Ron Paul was similarly artificially promoted by Russia (of course that attempt was a failure) I think the main reason was that he was for US withdrawing from UN and NATO (which is also what trump wants).
NATO is a big obstacle for Russia to revive Soviet Union as most of the Eastern European countries are now part of it.