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Who Should Replace Candy Crowley on CNN’s State of the Union?
by Matt Wilstein | 4:02 pm, December 5th, 2014
After 27 years with the network, Candy Crowley unceremoniously left CNN on Friday with little more than a short memo from president Jeff Zucker, leaving the flagship Sunday morning show State of the Union without a host.
“My mixed emotions are these,” Crowley wrote in a statement to Mediaite. “I am leaving colleagues and viewers who over many years have become dear friends and faithful fans… but I have for sometime wanted to try something new in someplace new. I have several weeks for good-byes, which are sad, but I am eager and excited to begin what comes next. More later. ”
Crowley took over the show from John King shortly after it was introduced and has been a major presence at the network ever since. And when she got the chance to moderate a 2012 debate between President Barack Obama and Mitt Romney, she showed she wasn’t afraid to correct the record as necessary, making a lot of conservative enemies in the process.
Assuming CNN will be picking from amongst its own ranks to replace Crowley on Sunday mornings, here is a list of candidates, from most to least likely…
http://www.mediaite.com/tv/who-should-replace-candy-crowley-on-cnns-state-of-the-union/