Posted on 09/30/2015 12:59:09 PM PDT by GIdget2004
The next Republican debate will feature an undercard stage before the main event, the forum's host CNBC said Wednesday, assuaging some of the fears and complaints from lower-tiered presidential campaigns.
Candidates polling at an average of 3 percent in the five weeks before the event will make the primetime debate at 8 p.m. EDT Oct. 28. A 2.5 percent average will be rounded up to 3 percent.  Candidates with a 1 percent average will appear in a forum at 6 p.m. EDT. The polls being used for the averages are from NBC, ABC, CBS, Fox, CNN and Bloomberg released between Sept. 17 and Oct. 21.
The debate will focus on the economy, jobs, and retirements and will be moderated by CNBC anchors John Harwood, Carl Quintanilla and Becky Quick.
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Trump should skip this debate and host his own Q&A press conference on a competing channel. Guaranteed he’d get more viewers than this circus!
Lowering the bar to ensure that Jeb stays in.
Trump has always said that business reporters were the least biased of the bunch.
If he ducks them now, he’ll look foolish.
They better lower the bar to 1% or bush wont qualify.
The business screws are just as liberal.How do you think they get on TV.
Not true - Rick Santelli, Neil Cavuto, Joe Kernan, etc.. None of those guys would be allowed into the non business mainstream media.
Trump is going to own this debate.
3 out of how many? Santelli I like.I don’t trust cavuto and I don’t know of Kernan.
If they set it much higher, only 3 or 4 would be elegible.
3%? Seriously?
Kernan is on the morning, he’s more of a libertarian, than a true conservative.
Becky is on there to attract guys.
Carl is a Hispanic regime affiliate.
I’m just saying, they aren’t all as bad as the MSM liberals. Kernen is a good guy - CNBC host on Squawk Box.
Of course this is based on a specific set of polls including some that haven’t been conducted yet, but using RealClearPolitics averages, 3% would eliminate Paul, Jindal, Santorum, Pataki and Graham. And most of them don’t have 1%, so they may not even get in the early debate.
Got it thank you much
Got it, thank you.
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