Newsmax clashed with the Republican National Committee over co-sponsoring a GOP presidential primary debate.

Axios reported that the RNC offered Newsmax as the junior partner to ABC News for the third debate after Fox News and Fox Business hosted the first two.

Nonetheless, executives hesitated to be a junior partner with a mainstream media outlet and thought the $2 million the RNC required the network to spend on the event was extreme. Eventually, that debate resulted in NBC News and Salem Media Group working together on the third debate.

Moreover, Newsmax was approached again to host the Republican debate. The RNC came to Newsmax to be the primary sponsor for the fourth GOP debate, which will take place in Tuscaloosa, Alabama, on Wednesday that ultimately went to NewsNation.

Still, the economics might have been an issue, as Newsmax would have had to spend approximately $4 million to produce the debate if they hosted it.

When the RNC announced that NewsNation would sponsor the fourth debate, it left the executives at Newsmax fuming as they were still searching for an additional sponsor to split the costs.

Axios obtained an email showing that executives from the conservative cable outlet were aware that the costs would vary based on the nature of the sponsors’ partnership, despite their belief that the RNC had changed the terms of their agreement.

Last week, MSNBC host Joe Scarborough raised eyebrows with his criticism that if Donald Trump is re-elected President in 2024, he’ll imprison and executive his political enemies. Fox News host Mark Levin took issue with the encapsulation.

During his Life, Liberty & Levin weekend program, Levin argued that Joe Scarborough’s statements were part of a larger issue in media circles.

“If you listen to the American media — which are basically propagandists for the Democrat party and the Biden machine — you would think that Donald Trump is Hitler. No, worse than Hitler. That he wants to execute and imprison everybody,” Levin said. “And if he’s not Hitler, he’s Stalin. And if he’s not Stalin, he’s Mussolini. He’s all these horrid things, and we know this to be the case because Joe Scarborough says so. And whatever Joe Scarborough says is very, very crucial.”

Mark Levin then argued that Trump and his family — which includes a Jewish son-in-law, daughter, and grandchildren — has a long history of supporting the religion and its followers in New York City, despite recent arguments from political opponents,

“So the American media, which is so detestable and unconscionable, and so totally immoral, tries to turn Donald Trump into an anti-Semite, Jew-hater,” Levin concluded, “when in fact, he has spent his entire life supporting Jews and Jewish causes, as had his father.”

Former President Donald Trump will again skip the Republican debate, which NewsNation is hosting next week. However, he will still be on television, just in another capacity.

According to Deadline, Trump will participate in a Fox News town hall on Tuesday, one night before the next Republican debate. The event will be in Davenport, IA, at 9 p.m. ET.

Furthermore, Sean Hannity, who is coming off moderating the debate between California Governor Gavin Newsom and Florida Governor Ron DeSantis, will be hosting the pre-taped event.

Meanwhile, the other Republican candidates will be at the Frank Moody Music Building in Tuscaloosa, AL, for the debate, with Elizabeth Vargas, Megyn Kelly, and Eliana Johnson serving as moderators.

Nikki Haley, DeSantis, and Vivek Ramaswamy are expected to participate in the event, but it remains uncertain whether Chris Christie will meet the qualifications to attend.