The room grew increasingly restless and the strategists started piping up, interrupting Zucker and Issenberg.

“I don’t remember getting invited to call in, though,” Sarah Isgur Flores, Carly Fiorina’s deputy campaign manager said, kicking off a parade of comments.

More irritated voices across the room quickly chimed in: “We didn’t get that call.” “We’d be invited for eight seconds.” “At 2 o’clock in the afternoon we’d be invited on,” another said sarcastically…

“It’s not the interviews,” Rubio senior advisor Todd Harris said as another audience member shouted, “You showed empty podiums!”

“You showed hours upon hours of unfiltered unscripted coverage of Trump, this was not about interviews,” he added.