The prime-time lineup: businessman Donald Trump, retired neurosurgeon Ben Carson, former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush, Florida Sen.
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Missing the debate could add to the pressure for Graham to drop out of the GOP race, freeing a few of his S.C. backers, who supported his presidential run out of loyalty, to switch to a presidential candidate with better poll numbers. There’s no precedent to help us predict how Christie’s campaign will survive this blow, or if it will even turn out to matter much at all.
The debates, scheduled for Tuesday night in Milwaukee, will allow the 12 candidates participating to express their views on topics ranging from regulation to tax reform and everything in between.
“There are a lot of people out there who disagree with what FOX did”, Christie told FOX News host Chris Wallace on Sunday. A few GOP candidates have reportedly pushed for different criteria – a few have suggested holding two debates with candidates chosen at random. “We are months away from actual votes being cast and neither the pundits nor the press will decide this election, the people will”. Lindsey Graham, a standout in previous undercard debates, has been shut out of Tuesday’s forum entirely, along with former governors of New York and Virginia George Pataki and Jim Gilmore.
Gov. Chris Christie has been knocked from the main stage for next week’s Republican presidential primary debate, and a few political observers say the move should spell the end of his long-shot campaign.
Pataki called organizers’ reliance on the national polls a big disservice to voters across the country and a clear boost to worship of celebrity over ideas and accomplishments.
Christie has seen recent gains in his favor ability sting in New Hampshire. “This national focus diminishes the significance of the Primary process”.
Other Republican candidates expressed dissatisfaction about being excluded. It’s New Hampshire or bust. He suggested that Democrat Bill Clinton or Republican John McCain could have struggled to emerge under the current system.
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Distributors that charge extra for Fox Business – including DIRECTV, Suddenlink, Mediacom, Frontier, Wide Open West, Cable One, as well as several smaller carriers in the National Cable Television Cooperative – have agreed to “unbundle” the channel, making it available to their entire subscriber bases for the debates. Barack Obama by about 20 points.
