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Include Johnson in debates
Yes, Jill Stein vows to debate both of the candidates, which would be the first time a third-party candidate shares the stage for what is normally a two-party system debate, given that she gets 15 percent of the public’s support at minimum to get on that stage.
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The two major party nominees, Republican Donald Trump and Democrat Hillary Clinton, will have the stage to themselves at the first presidential debate, scheduled for September 26 in Hempstead, N.Y. Libertarian vice-presidential candidate Bill Weld and Green Party vice-presidential candidate Ajamu Baraka are also ineligible to participate in the October 4 vice presidential debate.
“The Commission is a private organization created 30 years ago by the Republican and Democratic parties for the clear objective of taking control of the only nationally-televised presidential debates voters will see”, he said, adding that his 8.4 per cent support “represents 13 million voters, more than the total population of OH and most other states”.
Johnson, who was in Detroit last week to speak to the Detroit Economic Club, reached 13 percent in the most recent Quinnipiac University poll, though the Real Clear Politics average of polls has him at just 8.3 percent. The non-partisan, non-profit commission said it “applied its Nonpartisan Candidate Selection Criteria” – polling requirements that left out Johnson.
In a statement Friday, Johnson said: “I would say I am surprised that the CPD has chosen to exclude me from the first debate, but I’m not”.
A New York Times/CBS News national poll released Thursday also showed Clinton’s lead shrinking when third party candidates were included.
“We’ve found in our surveys that [Johnson’s] presence hurts Clinton more than it hurts Trump, and the fact that he did not backslide after Aleppo means that he is possibly here to stay”, said Tim Malloy, assistant director at the Quinnipiac University poll, referring to a September 8 television interview in which Johnson seemed not to know about the besieged Syrian city. Johnson has spent the day campaigning in Salt Lake City, the home town of former republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney.
The campaign enlisted surrogates to warn that a vote for the Libertarian or Green parties would help elect Trump.
According to Mark Dankof, a former third-party US Senate candidate, third-party presidential candidates in the US face “insurmountable obstacles” from the two major political parties, as well as from wealthy corporations and the mainstream media.
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The campaign said it is “organising nonviolent civil resistance training for this”.