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.
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You’re wrong.
Walker didn’t hire that adviser, a PAC did.
Walker’s wife and sons are not avid gay marriage supporters.
Walker is pro same sex marriage and pro amnesty. He wants the Patriot Act reinstated, even said it wasn’t strong enough.
Cruz should stay home for this too and let all the loser rinos attack Cruz and Trump. Trump and Cruz are rude meanies and should not be allowed to run and other such rino whines...
In other words, each candidate will have about three minutes to make themselves shine. No wonder Trump bowed out.
You figured it out.
That's enough for the thicker FReepers.
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