Posted on 01/11/2016 6:45:19 PM PST by conservative98
Washington (CNN)Rand Paul will boycott Thursday night's Republican primary debate in South Carolina after being relegated from the main stage, he said on Monday.
"I won't participate in anything that's not first tier because we have a first tier campaign," the Kentucky senator told CNN's Wolf Blitzer.
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"It's a mistake because the thing is we actually have been in the top five or six in most of the recent polls. In fact, last week in a national poll we were just one point out of fourth place. So I think it's a mistake to try to exclude me from the national debate," he told Blitzer.
Following the interview, Paul's campaign released a statement in which it protested Paul's treatment by the media.
"By any reasonable criteria Sen. Paul has a top tier campaign," the statement read. "He will not let the media decide the tiers of this race and will instead take his message directly to the voters of New Hampshire and Iowa."
"Multiple national polls including CNN, CBS, Fox, Marist and others have him in 5th or 6th place, one had him just a single point out of 4th," the statement continued. "In multiple polls he scores ahead of Jeb Bush, Chris Christie, John Kasich and Carly Fiorina. In yesterday's Marist Iowa poll he was alone in 5th place. In fact his numbers are on the rise in recent weeks."
Fox Business did not make public which polls were under consideration prior to Monday night's announcement, and Fox Business spokespeople did not respond to requests for comment on Monday night.
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Well... bye.
Paul is a nut case.
Anyone bringing up the birther bullsqueeze is.
Too bad Rand tried too hard to be liked by the Establishment and he didnt foresee that this would be an anti-Establishment election.
They didn’t treat him “fairly”,.. to borrow a phrase
Not if you're at the Kiddy Table, Rand.
Even though he has a case, and Kasich and Christie shouldn’t be in it either, somebody has to be the first to go.
The campaign spokesman then added “Four-twenty, dude” and sauntered off in a cloud of smoke.
Good.
Is he crazy enough to sue CRUZ over the NBC issue. He would have standing
Gotta make room for more trump-attackers. It’s getting perilously close to voting time and they have to take him down somehow!
Paul Rand is running a pretty good campaign, and he is now my second choice as I have decided that I personally am not going to risk this citizenship issue with Cruz, and also with Rubio, blowing up. I’m old enough to have learned that when you to to court (as this will) you just don’t know what the judge is going to decide. I’m not going to vote for Cruz, it just is not worth the risk.
LOL!
He was good in the last debate and came in 3rd in the Drudge poll. I heard some freepers want Rand added to the VP list for Trump.
Paul is a RINO, but I don’t like the media deciding who the “real” candidates are before anyone has cast a vote. WE are supposed to decide that, not them. Polls are jokes. They certainly aren’t votes.
Spoken like a true trumpbot.
ROFL!!!
He would be correct. Best comparison read : Yesterday someone pointed out that queen Noor ‘s children would qualify to be president under the Cruz scenario
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