The Commission on Presidential Debates on Friday made it official.
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No third-party candidate has enough support to merit inclusion in the first USA presidential debate, leaving Democrat Hillary Clinton and Republican Donald Trump a clear field to vie for support, organizers said Friday.
The Commission on Presidential Debates uses an average from five polls to determine what candidates will be allowed on the debate floor.
It would give voters a chance to hear from candidates other than Trump and Clinton who, to be frank, have done little to inspire the electorate. Johnson or Stein could qualify for the next debates if their polling numbers improve enough to hit 15 percent.
Johnson hoped to meet the 15 percent mark to gain broader exposure through the debate, expected to draw one of the year’s largest television audiences. The Johnson-Weld ticket is a third option to the current two bad choices, Johnson said.
Libertarian Party presidential nominee Gary Johnson did not make the cut for the first presidential debate, which is later this month.
It also said that the vice presidential running mates of the two leading candidates were the only two to qualify for the vice presidential debate set for October 4. The second presidential debate takes place on October 9. More than half of us do not support either major party candidate.
In a statement this afternoon, Weld responded: “Gary Johnson and I will campaign with all our strength to make that case to the American people from now until November 8th. Objective?” The researchers go on to introduce the findings as “an abridged compilation of the financial and political commitments of individual CPD members together with evidence of non-objective, unscientific research practices in the polls used for debate inclusion”.
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Libertarian Gary Johnson and the Green Party’ Jill Stein have failed to qualify for the first presidential debate on September 26, the Commission on Presidential Debates announced Friday. As he says, most pollsters first ask voters to choose between Clinton and Trump, and don’t include either his name or Green Party candidate Jill Stein until later in the survey.
