Posted on 09/10/2015 9:52:40 PM PDT by Red Steel
Sharing the stage with Donald Trump and Carly Fiorina at next week’s Republican presidential debate will be Jeb Bush, Scott Walker, Ted Cruz, Rand Paul, Marco Rubio, Ben Carson, Mike Huckabee, Chris Christie and John Kasich.
WASHINGTON — Eleven Republican presidential candidates have qualified for next week’s prime-time debate, a slate that features the full diversity of the GOP’s 2016 class and is believed to be the largest group to share a presidential-debate stage in modern political history.
The candidates scheduled to meet for Wednesday’s prime-time affair, announced Thursday night by debate host CNN, will include former technology executive Carly Fiorina, whose weak polling numbers kept her off the main stage of the first debate. But a bump in the polls and an aggressive lobbying effort persuaded CNN to broaden its participation criteria, a coup for Fiorina and GOP officials eager to feature the party’s only 2016 female candidate in the nationally televised clash.
But don’t expect Fiorina to get as much airtime as Donald Trump, who will be positioned front and center when the candidates meet at the Reagan Presidential Library in Simi Valley, Calif. The undisputed leader in national polls, Trump is generally considered the biggest reason why Fox News Channel reached 24 million people for the first GOP presidential debate last month — the most-watched program in Fox News history.
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Carly, why the long face?
I really wish he’d just skip this farce. It isn’t going to be a debate - it’s going to be an all out Trump assault. I suppose though if he passes on it - then the media will call him a coward. I don’t think these stupid debates are helpful - I really don’t and I have never liked them. it just gives the media soundbites to play over and over against or for a particular candidate. We’ll see what happens.
“...sharing the stage with Donald Trump...”
Tell Fiorina to watch for open microphones!!!!
She doesn’t’ want to do that again like she did here!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8XtPMq9xxOY
Watch Fiorian’s face in the video. Classic!
That said, Fiorina's support for amnesty makes her a non-starter for me.
Sure. She’s a reminder that the GOPe is willing to make an affirmative action move to get the “war on women” candidate in a position to lob bombs at Trump.
It’s funny if you think about it. Trump treats her like he treats every other rival...GOPe and CNN diminish her worth by moving the goalposts for her.
And from this, I’m supposed to draw the conclusion that Trump is sexist?
Got it.
Lol, they took her picture down for some reason.
SMH
She just needs to remember never look at the camera straight on. At a bit of an angle she is an attractive woman. Straight on that nose just takes over. I don’t care for the scent of RINO I detect there but I enjoy an attractive woman. I don’t care much for horses.
How many of the male candidates are better looking? ANd why does it matter?
She's worse than a RINO but is an out-and-out commie.
These aren’t debates. They’re inquisitions.
I haven’t followed her that close, because there’s simply no need for her. Cruz is the guy. There’s no need to introduce Fiorina in the mix unless we want to dilute the vote so Bush or another Leftist can get in. And I agree, Fiorina is a luke arm bucket of horse sweat.
No thanks...
SO CATTY LOL!!!!!
Reow, Carly, reow!
It matters, because it matters.
Tell Rand Paul looks don’t matter in a presidential campaign.
Tell that to Chris Christie.
Tell it to Linda Graham.
Tell it to Donald Trump’s comb over, which I have personally made fun of myself in the past.
Tell it to Jeb Bush’s big, stupid looking jug head.
If a person does not like another person, then physical characteristics might get isolated and pointed out.
It’s human nature.
Looks matter, sorry.
CNN Staffers Complain to Jeff Zucker About Obsessive Trump Coverage, Bumping Anderson Cooper’s Katrina Special (Exclusive)
[what are their FR nicks?]
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/chat/3335530/posts
Exactly right! Even with just two on stage, TV debates are the epitome of style over substance.
Why don’t they organize the primaries like pro sports playoffs — with divisions, brackets, etc.? By the semi-finals, there’d be a somewhat reasonable number on stage.
True dat!
Trump has a point about personas
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