Gary Johnson, Jill Stein will not be on debate stage

The Daily Beast ^ | September 16, 2016 | Staff

[Trump20162020]

Libertarian presidential nominee Gary Johnson and the Green Party’s Jill Stein will not be on the presidential debate stage for the first contest sponsored by the Commission on President Debates. Johnson and Stein both fell short of the 15 percent polling threshold required to participate, the commission said in a statement, adding that Trump and Clinton will face off on September 26 and their running mates, Tim Kaine and Mike Pence, will debate on October 4. Johnson in particular was pushing hard for inclusion in the debates, as he’d polled in the double digits across several national surveys, and previously said he would only have a chance to win if he can debate Trump and Clinton.

In a statement, Gov. Johnson lamented his exclusion from the debate stages, writing: “I would say I am surprised that the CPD has chosen to exclude me from the first debate, but I’m not. After all, the Commission is a private organization created 30 years ago by the Republican and Democratic parties for the clear purpose of taking control of the only nationally-televised presidential debates voters will see. At the time of its creation, the leaders of those two parties made no effort to hide the fact that they didn’t want any third party intrusions into their shows.”

[faithhopecharity]

The longer HilLIARy has to speak, the more people vote against her

[Obadiah]

Ahem, might I suggest some LED strobes for good measure?

[ObozoMustGo2012]

[plain talk]

The Commission on Presidential Debates sets forth the following requirements: 1. Be eligible to be President 2. Be on the ballot in enough states to be able to obtain the needed 270 electoral votes to win 3. Be polling 15% of higher in an average of five national network polls Johnson and Stein both met the first two, failed at the last one. It's not a new requirement added this year, it's been 15% for a while. Johnson and Stein knew what was required of them to get in.

Yep. That's the right answer. It's not whether it helps or hurts a candidate in this specific election. The rules should be consistently applied and let the chips fall where they may.

[wastedyears]

I actually don’t like this, because if they were on the stage, it would show the world just how crazy they are.

[PLMerite]

[deport]

Will they check Cankles’ ear canals for her “earpiece?”

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Is that against the rules? I rather let her have one and then prepare
a noise sound that can be injected into the receiver as needed.

[SamAdams76]

Speaking of fringe candidates, whatever happened to that one guy that neverTrumper Billy Kristol was pushing on us as a "serious" alternative candidate to Donald Trump?

Evan McMuffin was his name or something along those lines. I think he was polling at 0.000002 per cent last time I checked.

Isn't somebody going to join his campaign? C'mon! Let's at least get somebody to share that lonely stoop with him.

[deport]

When?

[Reno89519]

Mixed feelings on this. Not sure if it helps Trump or not.

[al_c]

Proof that both are taking votes from Hillary much more than Trump; if they were a threat to Trump, the rules would be bent to bring them in.

[Trump20162020]

Kristol pimped two losers.

One was David French, whose candidacy died the day after it was first floated.

The second was the aforementioned Evan McMullin, who I've honestly forgot existed until your post. Guy won't get 0.2% of the vote nationally, I bet. Nobody wants Bill Kristol candidates.

[E. Pluribus Unum]

Where?

[Pravious]

“Yes, good. They would only be a side show and distract from the main event.”

Ditto. These people have 0% chance of winning. They’re irrelevant.

[Bobalu]

prepare a noise sound that can be injected into the receiver as needed

The sound of people coughing.

[aces]

may as well go with spark plugs..smile

[oblomov]

I guess Johnson will just spend the evening listening to Buck Owens.

[Little Ray]

That is sad.
They could do a lot of good up there.
Folks could see how loopy the Libertarians have become and Stein could push Hillary! further Left.

[lesko]

Good to know - they are both quite irritating anyway.

[snarkpup]

Will they check Cankles’ ear canals for her “earpiece?”

Remember when James Bond got the radio that was transmitting to Goldfinger's earpiece? What mode of seizure would Hillary experience if something like this happened?