Didn’t qualify?! What, do you have to be a scratch golfer?
He has too be on enough state ballots to get 270 EVs. He’s not close.
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 ...