• March 28, 2024

M-S-Media Trying To Stack The GOP Primary Deck! Who’s Out Of The Next Debate And Who Are They Propping Up To Advance?

If this isn’t the reason to abandon main stream media and look only to “new” media for your news, I don’t know what is. On February 6th, ABC will host the next debate, just before the New Hampshire primary. And with only 8 candidates left in the GOP primary, ABC felt it necessary to cut one from the debate state. Here’s the criteria they used to determine who gets the ax.

What’s even more infuriating is that less qualified candidates are on the main stage, candidates who can’t pull support, delegates and poll numbers to justify their place in the race. So, I don’t know if it’s as much about who they left out as it is about who they are propping up in order to advance them along.

ABC News:Here are the three different ways candidates can gain an invitation for the debate stage:

1) Place among the top three candidates ranked according to the popular vote in the Iowa Republican caucuses on Feb. 1, 2016. (OR)

2) Place among the top six candidates in an average of New Hampshire Republican presidential polls recognized by ABC News. To be included, polls must be conducted no earlier than Jan. 1, 2016, and must be released to the public before 5 p.m. ET on Feb. 4, 2016. Poll averages will not be rounded. (OR)

3) Place among the top six candidates in an average of national Republican presidential polls recognized by ABC News. To be included, polls must be conducted no earlier than Jan. 1, 2016, and must be released to the public before 5 p.m. ET on Feb. 4, 2016. Poll averages will not be rounded.

Here’s the problem with that, other than the obvious, …

NBC News:“There are only 8 candidates left. It’s time for the RNC to demand that media executives step aside and let voters hear from all of us,” Fiorina wrote. “I trust you will act appropriately.”

Fiorina outperformed several candidates who will be on the stage in the Iowa caucuses. She won one delegate in Iowa, meaning she is tied in the delegate race with former Florida Governor Jeb Bush and beating New Jersey Governor Chris Christie and Ohio Governor John Kasich.

“It just seems odd to me that someone who is polling above people on that stage, someone who has more cash on hand than people on that stage, someone who has a better ground game than people on that stage, someone who’s on more ballots than people on that stage… it seems odd… that I’m the only person being excluded,” Fiorina said on MTP Daily on MSNBC Monday.

And, other candidates, including Ted Cruz, and former candidates, Rick Perry and Mitt Romney, are calling for inclusion in the debate.

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What do you think? Should Carly be on the debate stage? Is MSM trying to stack the deck? Leave your comments below…

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