Maybe it was the Clinton playbook of sleaze.
There were four questions by Democrat operatives. It isn’t the questions ask or the fact that it was Democrats asking them. It’s the fact that CNN picked these questions that were somewhat hostile to Republicans and during the Democrat debates CNN picked Democrats to ask softball questions that were sympatric to the Dems. They are clearly bias. CNN has egg on its face for not checking these folks out and being up front about their affiliations. I see that CNN deleted the question by the Clinton operative for the rebroadcast.
Here’s a pollster with an interesting take.