Posted on 06/20/2024 11:43:50 AM PDT by Macho MAGA Man
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. did not meet the criteria to make the debate stage next week, according to the outlet, denying him the opportunity to confront President Biden and Donald J. Trump.
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Robert F. Kennedy Jr. failed to qualify for the CNN presidential debate on June 27 by the network’s Thursday deadline, according to the outlet, a significant blow to his independent presidential bid that will deny him a coveted national stage alongside President Biden and former President Donald J. Trump.
Mr. Kennedy in a statement on Thursday called his exclusion from the debate “undemocratic, un-American and cowardly.”
Qualifying for the CNN debate, one of two presidential debates scheduled before Election Day, would have been a plum prize for the Kennedy campaign. More than 73 million people watched the first debate between Mr. Biden and Mr. Trump in 2020, and Mr. Kennedy would have had the opportunity to confront his opponents in front of an extensive national audience.
No third-party or independent presidential candidate has been on the national debate stage since 1992, when the Texas billionaire Ross Perot’s self-funded campaign gained enough momentum to earn him a spot alongside President George Bush and Gov. Bill Clinton of Arkansas in three debates in the final weeks before the election.
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Nope.
They’ll dope the potato up and softball him and when he muddles through without fully sundownign on camera claim he won
Those thinking Biden will blow up will be disapointed.
That is not the strategy. The strategy is to force the election into the house of representatives.
Ron Paul. Rand is his son the great Senator from Kentucky (even though im in Tennessee) 😉
All candidates have to be on the ballot in enough states to get 270 electoral college votes, and have 15% in four polls. He doesn’t meet the criteria.
When have third party candidates been in a nationally televised debate with the candidates from the GOP and Democratic parties? It’s not like he’s being singled out
That is debatable.
Kennedy is on the ballot in only six states.
This is actually good—biden will have to spend more time talking.
Let him debate. I would love to see it. He’s right. It is un-Democratic.
criteria to participate in the debate is in the NYT article:
RFKJ has zero chance of winning 270 electoral college votes because he’s made the ballot in only 6 states, so totally pointless to include someone with zero chance of winning the Presidency ... there’s also another handful of no-chance candidates who’ve also announced ... to include any of them turns the whole thing into a ridiculous circus and would take away most of the debate time from the only two candidates who matter ...
Or crapping.
(When have third party candidates been in a nationally televised debate with the candidates from the GOP and Democratic parties?)
October of 1992 : Bill Clinton, George H.W. Bush, Ross Perot.
Anyone know what the criteria were?
I don’t think they’re allowing an audience.
You’re right, they’re not. I just read it.
Yes, I remember that, and the great sucking sound. But the fact that it was 32 years ago tells how rare a circumstance it is.
Me either.
Here's what the rule should be: if a candidate is on the ballot in enough states so that that candidate could win 270 or more Electoral College votes, then he/she should be invited to debate. Let's hear what the man has to say!
“Here’s what the rule should be: if a candidate is on the ballot in enough states so that that candidate could win 270 or more Electoral College votes, then he/she should be invited to debate. “
uh, that IS in fact CNN’s debate criteria ... and JFKJ is ballot-qualified in only six states ...
Agree
what happened to the womens league? They should never have accepted the commission on debates.
Reagan had a famous moment when he said “I PAID FOR THIS MICROPHONE!” meaning he invested his time and donations into running a campaign and therefore had the right to speak and debate.
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