Posted on 07/27/2015 8:41:24 AM PDT by conservativejoy
RINO Jeb Bush, Marco Rubio and Lindsey Graham will participate in the Voter’s First Forum in New Hampshire on August 3rd along with 11 other GOP candidates.
But Donald Trump will not attend the event after the organizers published a brutal hit piece on the GOP front-runner.
Donald Trump won’t attend the New Hampshire Voter’s First Forum. The idiot organizers attacked him last week.
Good luck with your ratings, guys!
The Union Leader reported, via Free Republic:
“ Jeb Bush, Scott Walker and Rand Paul are in. Donald Trump is out.
A total of 14 candidates will participate in the Voters First Republican Presidential Forum on Monday, Aug. 3, at St. Anselm College. The two-hour forum, intended to highlight the importance of the first-in-the-nation primary, along with the Iowa caucuses and South Carolina’s early primary.
“I am in the North Country today,” Bush said Thursday, “meeting with voters about my message of reforming the culture in Washington. I’m looking forward to participating in the August 3rd forum. It’s clear it is a great opportunity to engage with Granite Staters about the important issues confronting the nation.”
Spokesmen for Paul and Walker said they are looking forward to the event.
The forum came into being after Fox News was heavily criticized for limiting the first sanctioned TV debate to 10 candidates based solely on national polling. Republicans in Iowa, New Hampshire, and South Carolina all wrote letters protesting the polling criteria, but Fox hasn’t budged. However, it has moved up to a 5 p.m. start a second forum for lower-polling candidates. It is unclear how many will attend. The Fox events are in Cleveland, but that state’s governor, John Kasich, may not make the top tier for the primetime debate.
The Voters First Forum is being co-sponsored by the New Hampshire Union Leader, the Charleston, S.C., Post and Courier, and the Cedar Rapids, Iowa, Gazette. Broadcast co-sponsors are iHeart radio, KCRG-TV, Cedar Rapids; and WLTX-TV in Columbia, S.C. The forum will be broadcast nationally by C-SPAN. New England viewers will be able to watch on NECN. It will be broadcast locally by NH1/WBIN-TV in New Hampshire, as well as by the South Carolina and Iowa stations. It will also air live on NHPR.
Candidate Trump bowed out because, an aide said, he was upset with a Union Leader editorial this week that mocked him for saying that U.S. Sen. John McCain was not a war hero. McCain, shot down by the North Vietnamese, suffered years of torture after refusing to be released early because his father was an admiral.
Joining Bush, Walker, Paul and Sen. Rubio will be Carly Fiorina, Govs. Bobby Jindal, John Kasich and Chris Christie, former Govs. Rick Perry and George Pataki; U.S. Sens. Lindsey Graham and Ted Cruz, former U.S. Sen. Rick Santorum, and Dr. Ben Carson.
Exactly.
Suck it up, Mr. Trump, and show up.
I think this also allows Cruz to not be overshadowed by Trump.
Cardboard look alikes would have more life than some of the candidates!
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LOL You have a definite point there!
Trump will probably pay for his own microphone and give a speech that same day at the same time.
There should be some truth applied, divide the field in half, bill it as the more liberal GOP and than the conservative GOP. Two separate debates.
I’m reminded of something Lincoln said to reluctant warrior General McClellan,
(paraphased, he was talking about the Army),
“If you aren’t going to use the party, may we have it?”
I was sitting on the divan eating pistachios.
Three days before the first major, official debate, this NH event is a pointless gathering which serves mostly to draw more and more unwarranted attention to NH. There is plenty of time for other NH events without their horning in when most attention will be focused on the Fox News hosted debates.
Conservatives shout sit out their debate.
Then Trump supporters were going to support a Democrat in disguise anyway...
And, this was Trump’s doing...not the establishments (is that correct?). Look, if Trump can’t take the heat, then he doesn’t belong on stage.
He already holds his own debate EVERY time he talks.
Damn! We would think the ‘sit at home’ crowd had learned the hard lesson of enabling nobama a 2nd unfettered term.
Yeah—Especially since the majority Republican House and Senate are really holding the line against Obama’s agenda.
What if Trump had a rally at the same time?
Complete lie.
Agreed. Campaigns can get ugly, and dealing with Congress, terrorists, and other nations as President can as well. You can’t run away every time someone is mean to you. That’s not leadership.
That is mighty puzzling, ain’t it.
A guy on before Rush on KRLD Dallas, pretty much laid it out with the Go-along GOPers. Same pile of poop, different flies.
We’ve got our work cut out for us having to fight both the dems and the GOPe in 16. I’m about ready for Texas to say “screw this, we’re going our own way”.
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