What about Governor Janet Mills of Maine ? She took the Resident on Face-To-Face, remember? “ I’ll see you in court “; and she won!

Begging the question means, and has always meant, not asking the question; i.e sending it begging to be asked.
The way it’s used by people, news interviewers, for example, is simply word fluff, making sentences and face time longer than they need to be.

All to be replaced by National Nazi Tattoo Day

And on each other…. The GOP is very good at circular firing squads