It used to be the opposite. If you couldn’t score high!enough you were excluded. Amazing how they’ll twist reason to GET Trump. The idea that the lesser candidates won’t get a shot at Trump also comes in to play. Never mind the sheer grotesqueness of openly silencing the front runner.
I just think about Ronna Romney’s stipulation that all candidates must support the eventual Republican nominee.
But did Jeb Bush support the eventual Republican nominee in 2016?? No.
Did Carly Fiorina support the eventual Republican nominee in 2016?? No.
Did John Kasich support the eventual Republican nominee in 2016?? No.
Will Chris Christie support the eventual Republican nominee (Trump)?? No.
Will Asa Hutchinson support the eventual Republican nominee?? No.
Etc. Etc.
So these debates are are choreographed sham with a bunch of phonies.