Posted on 07/27/2015 8:41:24 AM PDT by conservativejoy
RINO Jeb Bush, Marco Rubio and Lindsey Graham will participate in the Voter’s First Forum in New Hampshire on August 3rd along with 11 other GOP candidates.
But Donald Trump will not attend the event after the organizers published a brutal hit piece on the GOP front-runner.
Donald Trump won’t attend the New Hampshire Voter’s First Forum. The idiot organizers attacked him last week.
Good luck with your ratings, guys!
The Union Leader reported, via Free Republic:
“ Jeb Bush, Scott Walker and Rand Paul are in. Donald Trump is out.
A total of 14 candidates will participate in the Voters First Republican Presidential Forum on Monday, Aug. 3, at St. Anselm College. The two-hour forum, intended to highlight the importance of the first-in-the-nation primary, along with the Iowa caucuses and South Carolina’s early primary.
“I am in the North Country today,” Bush said Thursday, “meeting with voters about my message of reforming the culture in Washington. I’m looking forward to participating in the August 3rd forum. It’s clear it is a great opportunity to engage with Granite Staters about the important issues confronting the nation.”
Spokesmen for Paul and Walker said they are looking forward to the event.
The forum came into being after Fox News was heavily criticized for limiting the first sanctioned TV debate to 10 candidates based solely on national polling. Republicans in Iowa, New Hampshire, and South Carolina all wrote letters protesting the polling criteria, but Fox hasn’t budged. However, it has moved up to a 5 p.m. start a second forum for lower-polling candidates. It is unclear how many will attend. The Fox events are in Cleveland, but that state’s governor, John Kasich, may not make the top tier for the primetime debate.
The Voters First Forum is being co-sponsored by the New Hampshire Union Leader, the Charleston, S.C., Post and Courier, and the Cedar Rapids, Iowa, Gazette. Broadcast co-sponsors are iHeart radio, KCRG-TV, Cedar Rapids; and WLTX-TV in Columbia, S.C. The forum will be broadcast nationally by C-SPAN. New England viewers will be able to watch on NECN. It will be broadcast locally by NH1/WBIN-TV in New Hampshire, as well as by the South Carolina and Iowa stations. It will also air live on NHPR.
Candidate Trump bowed out because, an aide said, he was upset with a Union Leader editorial this week that mocked him for saying that U.S. Sen. John McCain was not a war hero. McCain, shot down by the North Vietnamese, suffered years of torture after refusing to be released early because his father was an admiral.
Joining Bush, Walker, Paul and Sen. Rubio will be Carly Fiorina, Govs. Bobby Jindal, John Kasich and Chris Christie, former Govs. Rick Perry and George Pataki; U.S. Sens. Lindsey Graham and Ted Cruz, former U.S. Sen. Rick Santorum, and Dr. Ben Carson.
What will the GOP do when all the Trump supporters decide to stay at home next November?
Of course, that may be exactly what the GOP wants.
I’m beginning to think that.
I really wanted to see this but I'm afraid I'm already committed to watching reruns of the Beverly Hillbillies that night.
Trump doesn’t need to make these people look stupid, they do it all on their own....
Hmm, this is the first time Trump has taken “back away” action due to comments being said against him. His usual action would be to charge ahead and show up BECAUSE something negative was said.
LOL! None of these are on my list, soooooo not watching it.
This debate will be a yawn-fest with all the 3rd teir candidates - oh and Frontrunner Jeb
(HA! they can’t even call him that any more)
“I really wanted to see this but I’m afraid I’m already committed to watching reruns of the Beverly Hillbillies that night.”
Watch it as Cruz will also be there.
Lindsay Graham??
Does he even show up in the polling?
If liberal voters stay home, maybe a conservative can get elected.
did they attack anyone else? If not, then he shold not go to it.
Better yet, we all agree to weaponize our votes and choose a third party candidate.
Wow. Because Trump supporters are probably too liberal for the GOPE I guess.
Cruz will be rocking their world.
Yep, the GOPe would rather lose with a RINO than win with Trump.
It won’t be much of a “debate” only enough time for them to say hi.
Obvious!! Trump, Cruz, Carly—etc-hold your own debate—at the same time!
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