Greg Gutfeld laments ‘worst’ Fox partnership with Univision for second debate

Fox News anchor Greg Gutfeld compared his network’s partnership with Univision to that of Bud Light and Dylan Mulvaney.

The two networks came together to host and moderate the second Republican primary debate on Wednesday. A panel of moderators included Dana Perino of Fox News, Stuart Varney of Fox Business, and Ilia Calderon of Univision. Gutfeld congratulated Perino on Thursday during The Five, claiming she was “shouldering the load for two hours.”

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“My problem with the debate wasn’t really the candidates at all because the outcomes you get are created by the design, and Fox joining Univision perhaps was the worst partnership I’ve ever seen since Bud Light hired Dylan Mulvaney,” Gutfeld said.

Gutfeld was referring to the beer company hiring Mulvaney, a biological man who identifies as a woman, for an ad campaign featuring Mulvaney’s face on one beer can. The anchor would go on to critique Calderon.

“I mean, you have a host unload a litany of liberal cliches whose premises we challenge successfully every day. And yet, they were treated as approved truths,” he said of Calderon. “She had no follow-up to each one, which is weird, so it was like a deliberate list prepared by the DNC to tweak the candidates, to tweak the audience. It didn’t feel like a journalism debate to me. It felt like The View without pastries.”

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Candidates present at the debate included entrepreneur Vivek Ramaswamy, former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley, former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, former Vice President Mike Pence, Sen. Tim Scott (R-SC), Gov. Doug Burgum (R-ND), and Gov. Ron DeSantis (R-FL). There are currently 13 total vying for the Republican presidential nomination.

Notably, former President Donald Trump was not present despite qualifying for the Republican National Committee’s polling and donation standards, as he refuses to sign a loyalty pledge promising not to run as a third-party candidate should he not win the nomination. Former Arkansas Gov. Asa Hutchinson did not qualify for the second debate despite appearing for the first one.