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A first-read article from NBC:
First Read Figuring Out How to Fit the GOP Candidates on One Debate Stage - NBC News
Here is their list of prospective candidates:
"Here is our list of the 18 Republican presidential candidates. If you capped a debate at 12, which six would you leave out?
RNC Tries Damage Control Over Debate Cap - NationalJournal.com
Interesting phenomenon to watch. Reminds me a little of the Democrats in 1972.... but back then they didn't have these massive televised debates just for the primaries.
What do you think? Cap at 12, or go the Full-Monty?
First Read Figuring Out How to Fit the GOP Candidates on One Debate Stage - NBC News
Here is their list of prospective candidates:
"Here is our list of the 18 Republican presidential candidates. If you capped a debate at 12, which six would you leave out?
- Former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush
- Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker
- Sen. Marco Rubio
- Sen. Rand Paul
- Sen. Ted Cruz
- Former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee
- Former Sen. Rick Santorum
- Sen. Lindsey Graham
- Former Texas Gov. Rick Perry
- Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal
- New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie
- Ohio Gov. John Kasich
- Donald Trump
- Carly Fiorina
- Ben Carson
- Former Virginia Gov. Jim Gilmore
- Former New York Gov. George Pataki
- Former Maryland Gov. Bob Ehrlich"
RNC Tries Damage Control Over Debate Cap - NationalJournal.com
Republican National Committee officials are scrambling to dig themselves out from suggestions that they plan to "cap" upcoming presidential debates at nine to 12 participants—a move that could freeze out more than a half-dozen would-be candidates.
Party officials, increasingly anxious about the growing field and the GOP's ability to limit the number of participants on the debate stage this fall, arrived at last weekend's RNC spring meeting in Arizona expecting a committee-wide discussion about structural guidelines for the debate season. That discussion, to the surprise of some RNC members, never took place. But New Hampshire committeeman Steve Duprey—who chairs the RNC's panel on 2016 debates—got everyone's attention by saying: "I think there's consensus to cap it between nine and 12."
His words exacerbated a sense of panic already felt by a number of campaigns and their supporters, and by the end of the meeting, the RNC was backpedaling.
Interesting phenomenon to watch. Reminds me a little of the Democrats in 1972.... but back then they didn't have these massive televised debates just for the primaries.
What do you think? Cap at 12, or go the Full-Monty?