I found out later that some campaigns were known to be in touch with debate moderators to suggest that certain questions get asked. If you don’t have a direct line to the journalists, you can at least signal ahead of time to the press questions and topics that you would like to get, generally by attacking someone. When I realized this, in July 2019, I tweeted, “I would like to signal to the press that I will be attacking Michael Bennet at next week’s debate. Sorry @MichaelBennet but you know what you did.” Reporters contacted my team to see if I was serious.
