“Our campaign claims that equity in coping with polling variability, which formerly allowed for amended rules for Carly Fiorina for CNN’s August Republican Presidential argument, would suggest Rand Paul should be on the main stage during Tuesday’s discussion”, his campaign said. “Rand Paul in the prime-time debate”, a CNN spokeswoman said. The six remaining participants in the prime-time contest will be Florida Sen.
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Republican organizations will conduct viewing parties at five sites in Los Angeles County for today’s debate involving the party’s top nine presidential candidates.
Mr. Paul’s poll numbers had meant he might not earn a spot on the main stage, but he was “saved at the 11th hour by showing viability in Iowa” in a Fox News poll released Sunday morning, CNN said in a story posted online.
Paul kept his spot thanks to a Fox News Iowa poll released on Sunday that showed him strong enough in that state, according to CNN.
To Carson’s right will be Florida Sen. Ted Cruz followed by Sen.
CNN was supposed to use the average of the polls before October 29 but changed the criteria to help a candidate again, after previously helping Fiorina onto the main stage debate in September. Rick Santorum, South Carolina Sen.
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Those in an earlier debate on Tuesday will be Mike Huckabee, a former Arkansas governor; former Pennsylvania Sen. Coverage will begin at 3 p.m. on CNN.
