Posted on 07/27/2015 1:09:22 AM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
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.”
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.
(Excerpt) Read more at unionleader.com ...
“One of these is incredibly thin skin. Strangely, this has become true for his fan club as well.”
Thin skin? You have evidently never said anything negative about Cruz or anything positive about Trump on this site.
What about the other 12 or so candidates? Did they also duck and run?
So, I guess...this explains your position on Trump!!
“...when he flinches from scrutiny and crashes his poll numbers.”
Trump has never been scrutinized?
“Everyone’s been hammered but they didn’t throw temper tantrums like Trump.”
You mean like Perry, Linda, Rubio, Walker, the entire media establishment, such as the measured George Will, or Krauthamer, and the entire media estalishment - one long hissy-fit.
Trump doesn’t want to face his fellow GOP candidates? He has not avoided the entire media firestorm; why would some milquetoast RINOs bother him?
Did I say he had anything do with Kelo.. dingbat???
I said he SUPPORTED it. Does that not register with you? It should, for anyone who cares about property rights in this country.
Walker, Bush, Paul in NH “First Forum” next Monday. Trump out.
FReep Mail me if you want on, or off, this Wisconsin interest ping list.
LOL.
Without Trump, it will be a snoozer and a bash Trump fest.
I read the article at the link and given that there’s 16 candidates, who’s the other no-show?
Maybe it’s too early for me, but I thought I read 14 are participating...
who’s the other no-show?
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The Huck.....
I reread; you are correct. I would probably have to disagree with you on that, though. Anyway, these things are not really a debate - some moderator throws out a question designed to make someone look bad, etc.
Thank you so much, dearest deport!
He’s another entertaining candidate.
It will be a snoozer.
“The Union Leader, one of the sponsors for the forum, said the candidates who have committed to attend include Jeb Bush, Scott Walker, Rand Paul, Marco Rubio, Carly Fiorina, Bobby Jindal, John Kasich and Chris Christie.”
“Also on the list are Rick Perry, George Pataki, Lindsey Graham, Ted Cruz, Rick Santorum and Ben Carson.”
http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/07/24/us-usa-election-forum-idUSKCN0PY2C420150724
I count 14 in total out of a field of 16. The only ones missing are Trump who bowed out on his own accord and Mike Huckabee – I would guess he was invited as all were but perhaps had a scheduling conflict or just didn’t think it was worth participating in.
and what was this? seems like an opportunist forum with a lightweight host.
this “first”, whatever it is, forum is just kabuki theater which is business as usual.
We could do BS Bingo:
secure the border
comprehensive immigration reform
back of the line
economic stimulus
change DC culture
common sense laws which...
national security
repeal obamacare
all of which are 100% lies.
no Trump no ratings...
Well, I’m not planning to watch, unless I’m stuck at home that day.
The fox debate was the first announced assembly.
The left wing union leader did this as an “I hate fox” add on.
The dead end candidates have nowhere else to go.
This should be called the dead end forum. Let the lesser candidates take on jbush and his algore level of excitement.
A million a month, that's all we ask.
No problem.
(it's actually more like 50 million)
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