Libertarian Party nominee Gary Johnson and Green Party nominee Jill Stein failed to make the cut to participate in the first presidential debate on september 26.
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Presidential candidates Jill Stein, left, and Gary Johnson are shown during a 2016 Presidential Election Forum on August 12, 2016 in Las Vegas.
The commission also said that the October 4 vice presidential debate at Longwood University in Farmville will only include Sen.
In 2016, this would mean four candidates in the debates, including Hillary Clinton, Donald Trump, Stein and Johnson. According to the Los Angeles Times, the 15 percent mark is problematic because the CPD draws that average from five national polls conducted by traditional media outlets that often restrict themselves to head-to-head match-ups between Trump and Clinton, leaving Johnson and Stein out.
Presidential candidate and former Governor of New Mexico Gary Johnson will host a rally in Seattle on Saturday.
Johnson and his running mate, former Massachusetts Gov. Bill Weld, would need to poll at 15 percent nationally to join Trump and Clinton in the debates. The second debate will be on October 9 and the third on October 19 at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas.
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“We will be at the debate to insist that Americans not only have a right to vote, but we have a right to know who we can vote for”, she said.
The first debate will take place September 26 at Hofstra University in Hempstead, New York. Johnson averaged 8.4 percent, while Stein was trailing at 3.2 percent, according to the Associated Press.
Debate organizers need to take a cue from the nominating processes used by Republicans and Democrats and allow more candidates to take the stage.
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Green Party nominee Jill Stein, who is also excluded from the debates by the decision, reached a polling high of around 4%. They both meet the Commission’s other two criteria: they are constitutionally eligible and are on the ballots in enough states to win a theoretical Electoral College majority.
