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Republican presidential candidate unloads on Fox News during Fox News interview
Business Insider ^ | Friday, July 10th, 2015 | Colin Campbell

Posted on 07/11/2015 3:47:55 AM PDT by stevie_d_64

Presidential candidate and Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-South Carolina) is furious about Fox News' rules for the first GOP primary debate.

In a Fox News interview on Friday, Graham blasted the right-leaning network's "dumb" rules, which will limit the participants to 10 candidates polling the best in an average of the five most recent national polls.

"I think that this is a dumb way to weed out the field," Graham declared.

Many critics say the August 6 debate's rules harm the candidates campaigning in the early voting states and elevate those who have been getting those most national TV exposure or who have run for president before.

With around 17 Republican candidates running, there will be a number of furious White House hopefuls left out of the crucial opportunity to be heard before a major television audience. Graham, who is lagging in national polls, clearly agrees with that assessment. He argued that July 2015 is too early to even pay attention to polls.

"Brad Pitt would be in the debate in August. Anybody with any celebrity would be in the debate," he said. "I don't mind weeding out the field over time."

"It's July for God's sakes!" he added. "So a national poll is a lousy way, in my view, to determine who should be on the stage. And I quite frankly resent it."

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Extended News; Front Page News; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: complainingrino; debates; foxnews; lindseygraham; loserrino; primaries; whiningrino
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101 posted on 07/12/2015 4:18:10 PM PDT by foreverfree
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To: generally

Sure, sounds sporty...

But the media and establishment will not allow anyone to enjoy this process either...

All part of the plan...


102 posted on 07/12/2015 7:07:35 PM PDT by stevie_d_64 (I will settle for a "perfectly good, gently used" kidney...Apply within...)
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To: Cold Heat

You are probably the smartest one of the bunch here!!!


103 posted on 07/12/2015 7:08:58 PM PDT by stevie_d_64 (I will settle for a "perfectly good, gently used" kidney...Apply within...)
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To: Popman

I am concerned a few good ones might be left out of the debate. Will Jindall make it? He needs to be on the stage.


104 posted on 07/12/2015 7:12:50 PM PDT by cornfedcowboy
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To: stevie_d_64

Government of the oligarchs, by the media, for the money.

There are many possible ways to deal with a large field, without putting the money and the pollsters, instead of the people, in charge of who gets to actually run. It’s just that the RNC has no ability to think outside their tiny little mental box.

They’re like French generals in more ways than one. Always fighting the last war, and can always be counted on the fly the white flag in the end.


105 posted on 07/12/2015 7:22:21 PM PDT by EternalVigilance (Polling: The art of determining how effectively the people were fooled by your last poll.)
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To: EternalVigilance

That’s actually very astute, well put!!!


106 posted on 07/12/2015 8:01:13 PM PDT by stevie_d_64 (I will settle for a "perfectly good, gently used" kidney...Apply within...)
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To: stevie_d_64

Yep, the same a Trump today: he talked truth that the establishment poo-poo’d and sucked away votes from the GOP side because they (continually) cannot speak the same (of their corp./CoC masters) thus, giving Clinton the win.

I give me both thumbs up for speaking-out to those of us not blind-fully drinking the kool-aid.


107 posted on 07/13/2015 6:31:21 AM PDT by i_robot73 ("A man chooses. A slave obeys." - Andrew Ryan)
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