--- title: Republican Debate: RNC Chair Praises Fox, Bashes CNBC description: The head of the Republican Party praised moderators from Fox Business for their handling of Tuesday's debate. canonical: https://time.com/4107825/reince-priebus-fox-business-cnbc-debate/ author: Tessa Berenson article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2015-11-11T05:12:01.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-08-19T07:48:27.558Z article:section: Politics og:title: Republican Chair Praises Fox, Bashes CNBC og:description: A tale of two debates. og:url: https://time.com/4107825/reince-priebus-fox-business-cnbc-debate/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltcc8138c5e68cc285/698870740a4a2257d89c6f9f/gop-debate-reince-priebus.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 4776 og:image:height: 2687 og:image:alt: Milwaukee Prepares For Fourth GOP Presidential Debate og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Republican Chair Praises Fox, Bashes CNBC twitter:description: A tale of two debates. twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltcc8138c5e68cc285/698870740a4a2257d89c6f9f/gop-debate-reince-priebus.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # RNC Chair Praises Fox After Republican Debate, Bashes CNBC > Sponsored content. 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Scott Olson—Getty Images  by [Tessa Berenson](https://time.com/author/tessa-berenson/)  ## Tessa Berenson Nov 11, 2015 5:12 AM UTC Certain candidates fared better than others during the fourth Republican debate Tuesday night, but there was one clear winner: Fox Business. Reince Priebus, chairman of the Republican National Committee, took to Twitter after the debate to praise Fox Business and jab CNBC, which was roundly criticized for being unfair in the last Republican debate. > [](https://twitter.com/Reince/status/664296034902773760) It was the comparison Fox Business had hoped for. Neil Cavuto, one of the Fox Business debate moderators, tweeted this during the CNBC debate on October 28: > [](https://twitter.com/TeamCavuto/status/659549198925357056) “What precipitated that little ribbing was we were getting a few tweets from people saying, ‘Why isn’t \[the issues of\] business coming up? Please tell me, Cavuto, you aren’t going to miss the opportunity to talk about the stuff we thought would come up in this debate,’” Cavuto [told _Fortune_](http://fortune.com/2015/11/09/fox-gop-republican-debate/). Even frontrunner Donald Trump had nothing but nice things to say about Fox Business in the spin room after the debate. “I thought the moderators were elegant,” [he said](http://www.snappytv.com/tc/1004320), “I thought the questions were really, really on point, and I really thought it was a great night.” The Republican candidates took CNBC to task for what they considered “gotcha” questions during the last debate, leading the RNC to [back out of a debate with NBC](http://time.com/4094681/republican-debate-cnbc-rnc/). **Read Next:** [_Did CNBC Ask ‘Gotcha’ Questions at the Debate? You Decide_](http://time.com/4094888/republican-debate-cnbc-questions/) ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4107825/reince-priebus-fox-business-cnbc-debate/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4107825/reince-priebus-fox-business-cnbc-debate/"},"headline":"RNC Chair Praises Fox After Republican Debate, Bashes CNBC","datePublished":"2015-11-11T05:12:01.000Z","dateModified":"2026-08-19T07:48:27.558Z","description":"The head of the Republican Party praised moderators from Fox Business for their handling of Tuesday's debate.","url":"https://time.com/4107825/reince-priebus-fox-business-cnbc-debate/","keywords":["Debates","2016 Election","Reince Priebus","Republican debate"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltcc8138c5e68cc285/698870740a4a2257d89c6f9f/gop-debate-reince-priebus.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Tessa Berenson","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/tessa-berenson/"}],"articleSection":"Politics","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltcc8138c5e68cc285/698870740a4a2257d89c6f9f/gop-debate-reince-priebus.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Milwaukee Prepares For Fourth GOP Presidential Debate","caption":"Milwaukee Prepares For Fourth GOP Presidential Debate","creditText":"Scott Olson—Getty Images","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/politics/","name":"Politics"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/debates/","name":"Debates"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4107825/reince-priebus-fox-business-cnbc-debate/","name":"RNC Chair Praises Fox After Republican Debate, Bashes CNBC"}}]}] ```