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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Yup wont be watching either. Cruz or Trump the rest arent worth a shit.
I thought the RNC outlawed non sanctioned debates.
Open Border/Amnesty Walker, no thanks, no vote just another RINO.
Either you are ignorant of the facts, or you are willingly spreading lies.
January 3, 2011 - Walker assumes Office of Governor of Wisconsin.
June 27, 2011: Walker Revokes In-state Tuition For Undocumented Students Attending Univ And Colleges In Wisconsin [ONLY gov and state who has] "- On Sunday, Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker (R) signed his two-year 2011-2013 budget, which included ending in-state tuition for undocumented students attending public universities and colleges. In-state tuition for undocumented students was approved two years ago by former Governor Jim Doyle (D) after the Hispanic community struggled for 10 years to pass it."...
March 2015: “We strongly dispute this account. Governor Walker has been very clear that he does not support amnesty and believes that border security must be established and the rule of law must be followed. His position has not changed, he does not support citizenship for illegal immigrants, and this story line is false,” she announced in an email to journalists Thursday afternoon.”
“I made it clear that for me, if somebody wants to be a citizen, they need to go back to their country of origin, get in line, no preferential treatment,” Walker said. “In terms of what to do beyond that, again, that’s something we got to work with Congress on.”
Everyone’s been hammered but they didn’t throw temper tantrums like Trump.
Trump bowed out on his own.........
Easy. By not being there, he’s more visible than if he were........
How do you see Trump leading as president?
Using Executive Orders to do what he wants?
And what would those “wants” look like since he’s basically liberal on most things?
It’s America, if the media wants to control the message he has every right to say no. This in no way hurts him and likely helps not being asked questions by screaming libs.
Shouldn’t it be in a state? a real state?
New Hampshire is merely a county
So, you want him to go unquestioned by hostile media (or even by his fellow candidates), we should just get started on a coronation.
Why?
Is he incapable of taking the heat?
How’s that going to play in the general election?
As of now, I see him as a Blue Dog Democrat...........
The bottom line is this, if someone like Trump or Cruz is not running for president, then the DEMs will win yet again. Republicans as it stands now are just as bad as the DEMs. Only 2 candidates are constantly getting hammered by both sides. What does that tell you. If neither make it to the election I wont vote, as they are all establishment Turds, all of them even, your precious Walker with the open borders, gay loving crap. Party loyalty is gone they attack Cruz like democrats. I loath them.
You need new glasses.
Until you can pull yourself away from posting like a Saul Alinsky acolyte, you have no credibility.
Not asking for credibility just telling you want millions of Americans feel like. People are sick of this shyte.
When you repeatedly lie about someone, you’ve lost the argument.
So my link is a lie with a video of him saying what I posted?
Your “link” is incomplete.
My reply in Post #63 isn’t.
This is not his forte. He admitted to not having debated before, the other day.
Unless he can portray this as an attempt by the establishment to "keep him out", I think you will hear an ever increasing narrative about Trump being the guy wanting to toss hand grenades from the sideline but being unwilling to enter into substantive debate.
Now we all know that meaningful debate seldom happens in these public debates, but I think that's going to become the story on Trump.
so the daytime debate with fox has moved to 5pm from 1pm est?
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