GOP party rules are that a candidate participating in a debate not sanctioned by the GOP will be ineligible to take part in any other sanctioned debate.
Then the LAT/etc. should be publishing the rules and asking why?
I mean, *we* know why they want to corral the herd to pick their chosen ‘best’ (that will continue to parrot the party line...I mean, how many in the field even bring up the Constitution anymore??).
Course, that would have happened back when we had actual gum-shoe writers, instead of repeating the A.P. 99% of the time....