Conservative Fox News host Sean Hannity suggested Thursday that he will have some role in an upcoming Republican presidential primary debate or forum.
“I’ve got stuff going on, yeah,” said Hannity when asked by the Washington Examiner media desk if he may act as a moderator in one of the scheduled debates. Hannity made the comment at the annual Conservative Political Action Conference, hosted this weekend just outside Washington, D.C.
It was announced Tuesday that conservative radio host Hugh Hewitt will participate in a Q&A for a CNN-led GOP 2016 debate scheduled for Sept. 16.
Fox News has its own debate set for sometime in August. Two other debates are scheduled for January and March of 2016.
The Republican National Committee, which sanctions debates among GOP candidates, pledged in 2013 to overhaul the way the party’s presidential primary debates are formatted after party officials claimed there were too many before the 2012 election. The result was a hybrid format with more mainstream news outlets like CNN partnering up with other voices popular in the conservative media.
It was reported in August 2013 that party insiders were lobbying for conservatives like Hannity and radio hosts Rush Limbaugh and Mark Levin to moderate primary debates.
CPAC is the largest annual gathering of conservatives in the U.S. Several potential Republican presidential candidates are scheduled to speak at this year’s conference, including Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker, Sen. Marco Rubio and former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush.
