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the first GOP presidential debate is Wednesday at 9 PM ET on Fox News. (I plan on watching baseball.)
President Donald Trump won’t be on the stage. At least for now. Maybe he’ll crash it! We need more drama, right?
Anyway.
The debate has eight candidates:
Larry Elder, Perry Johnson, and Miami Mayor Francis Suarez did not make the stage.
Trump did not sign the pledge to support the Republican presidential nominee.
The candidates had to reach a threshold to perform at the debate:
To make the stage, candidates were required to reach 1% in three national polls, or 1% in two national polls and two state-specific polls from the early voting states of Iowa, New Hampshire, South Carolina and Nevada.Additionally, to reach the debate stage, candidates were required to have 40,000 unique donors to their campaign committee (or exploratory committee), with “at least 200 unique donors per state or territory in 20+ states and/or territories,” according to the RNC criteria.
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