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disney WASHINGTON, D.C. (The Adobo Chronicles) The Republican National Committee (RNC) has pulled out of a planned Feb. 26 debate hosted by NBC News after widespread criticism of this week’s CNBC debate from both the party and campaigns.

In a stunning announcement made today, RNC chairman Reince Priebus said that the February 26 debate will be moved instead to the Disney Channel which is owned by the ABC Television Group.

RNC has also named the debate moderators: conservative columnist Ann Coulter and Satirist Andy Borowitz of The New Yorker magazine.

Meanwhile, front runner Ben Carson has sent RNC his demands to change the debate format for the upcoming November 10 GOP presidential debate in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.

Bush and Trump: too close to call (Photo courtesy of The Onion)

MIAMI, Florida (The Adobo Chronicles) – Placement is everything, especially in a televised presidential debate.

In the last three GOP presidential debates, the candidates leading in national polls were placed behind the center podiums while the rest were positioned to their left and to their right, in the order of their poll standing.

Apparently, at last night’s debate hosted by CNBC, something wasn’t right with the podium placement. The two top candidates –Donald Trump and Ben Carson — were in the middle podiums alright, but former Governor Jeb Bush’s podium was placed right next, and very close, to Trump.

That didn’t sit well with Senator Marco Rubio, who is ahead of Bush in the polls.

As he reviewed news photos of the event, Rubio was aghast at what he saw (see photo).

Today, Rubio filed a formal complaint with the Republican National Committee and CNBC for favoring Bush, not knowing of course, that the photo he was shown by his campaign staff was from . . . The Onion.

As they say in elections, the whole thing was too close to call.