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Hugh Hewitt and the Media's 2024 Problem

We knew.

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Jonathan V. Last
Jan 03, 2022
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Hugh Hewitt in 2016 (Photo by Kirk Irwin/Getty Images for SiriusXM)

1. Useful Idiots

Over the weekend Hugh Hewitt published a column in the Washington Post in which he handicapped the 2024 Republican presidential field.

It is, just objectively, a dumb piece. For instance, Hewitt calls Mike Pompeo a “top-tier” candidate. (He’s polling at 1 percent.) But wha…

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