Posted on 07/28/2015 9:46:02 PM PDT by tcrlaf
Fox News is opening its 5 p.m. debate to all the announced Republican candidates who fail to make the cut for the Aug. 6 prime-time event, removing a requirement that participants reach at least 1 percent in polling.
The change amounts to an insurance policy for candidates who were in danger of being disqualified from the vital first debate based on low polls – Carly Fiorina, former New York Gov. George Pataki and Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.).The announcement by Michael Clemente, Fox News Executive Vice President, News, means that all 16 announced candidates will qualify for Cleveland — either the 5 p.m. undercard, or the 9 p.m. main event.
The 9 p.m. debate will include the 10 candidates with the highest average in national polls, as determined by Fox News. The 5 p.m. forum will now include all the rest.
According to a POLITICO analysis of the latest national polling, the prime-time participants today would be Donald Trump, Jeb Bush, Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker, Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.), Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Tex.), Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.), Mike Huckabee, Ben Carson, New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie and Rick Perry
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She has been appearing on FOX a lot.
Ping.
No to deny time to Cruz and Trump.
Their Establishment favorites were going to be left on the cutting room floor.
But this is still the right policy.
Seventeen - Don’t forget Gilmore
That’s my take right there.
What are you going to learn with 16 people participating? Nothing.
And then you’ll get loaded questions to Cruz and Trump that there’s no right answer to.
She deserves all the air time she can get. Her comments are far more relevant than the political dancers like Bush, Kasich and Huckabee.
Yup. They could not be more ‘transparent’ if they tried.
I think on principle its fine giving all candidates debate time on air. Give poll leaders the prime spot time and the rest non-prime time
I don’t think that will hurt Trump much, but I’d like to see Cruz represent himself well.
These debates are never debates. They’re gotcha moments for the moderators. It’s all about them, and nothing to do with enlightening the public.
Well Trump should be on stage. Cruz is barely going to get on the main stage. He will be at the end of the stage for sure. Center will be Trump for first place and Bush and Walker will be next to him and then so on down to Cruz and Perry.
and the State Controlled Media will call it a “cluster——.
“Hillary stays focused while the Republicans run around like the Keystone Cops”.
Good, I can skip the children’s table and watch the debate that matters.
Senator Paul, If you showed me around your state (county, city, community, etc.), where would you take me? Why?
Governor Christie, At what point does a girl become a woman? ... Blah, blah, blah.
16 candidates? This is no debate. It’s a besuty contest. Without the beauties.
Well, Megyn Kelly...
The only people worth having on that stage are Cruz and Trump. The rest are ether there for attention or to thwart C/T and push GOP liberalism. they have nothing to do with conservatism or actual Republicanism and belong on a DNC debate stage.
Walker and his USCOC funding included. Perry and his Laraza crap included, Rubio and his finger in the wind Amnesty included and Jeb because he is 100% off the reservation.
Trump at least makes conservative noises which the rest, Cruz excepted, cannot even muster in a lie.
Sure, she’ll have a few people on stage with her.
Folks, all year I have been saying we had too many in the field, and others were so thrilled.
Well, here we are. This is why I said what I did.
My decision would be “Anyone who can’t outpoll that Arkansas dimwit Huckleberry - including Huckleberry - should debate at the children’s table. Anyone higher in the polls than Huckleberry gets to debate with the adults.”
Who will the moderator and panel be?
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