all the republican campaigns outlining its debate plans which is set to last more than two hours, plus another 16 minutes in commercials and it does not include opening and closing statements. trump and ben carson, the gop front runners aren t happy with the format and sends a letter to cnbc that reads in part neither mr. trump or dr. carson will participate in your debate if it s longer than 120 minutes including commercials and does not include opening and closing statements. last night, trump told greta van sustron cnbc s format is all about the money. they want to make this an extra hour. and i think it s unfair to the viewers because it s too much. it s too much to watch and they re doing it because they want to make more money. carly fiorina, who is the other leading political outsider in the gop race says prepared statements are for politicians. i think apparently they re worried about answering questions for three hours. for heaven sakes, we have ten candidates on the sta
through the debate process, specifically, and they would just decree that there were really only ten serious candidates for the republican nomination and everybody else was something lesser. why did they pick ten specifically? no idea. it is a nice, round number. so fox was given the first debate by the republican party. after 17 major candidates declared that they were running for the nomination, fox announced their first change to their debate plans. instead of just having a regular presidential debate where the candidates would all be allowed to compete, fox instead announced that they would have a real debate, and then a kids table. a separate forum. some kind of other event to which they would exile the candidates who fox deemed not worthy of being in the real debate. ultimately, that was not the only change that fox news ended up announcing. they also announced the candidates would have to file financial disclosure statements that they didn t know they had to file before, and th
through the debate process, specifically, and they would just decree that there were really only ten serious candidates for the republican nomination and everybody else was something lesser. why did they pick ten specifically? no idea. it is a nice, round number. so fox was given the first debate by the republican party. after 17 major candidates declared that they were running for the nomination, fox announced their first change to their debate plans. instead of just having a regular presidential debate where the candidates would all be allowed to compete, fox instead announced that they would have a real debate, and then a kids table. a separate forum. some kind of other event to which they would exile the candidates who fox deemed not worthy of being in the real debate. ultimately, that was not the only change that fox news ended up announcing. they also announced the candidates would have to file financial disclosure statements that they didn t know they had to file before, and th
declared that they were running for the nomination, fox announced their first change to their debate plans. instead of just having a regular presidential debate where the candidates would all be allowed to compete, fox instead announced that they would have a real debate, and then a kids table. a separate forum. some kind of other event to which they would exile the candidates who fox deemed not worthy of being in the real debate. ultimately, that was not the only change that fox news ended up announcing. they also announced the candidates would have to file financial disclosure statements that they didn t know they had to file before, and that may or may not have been a way to try to keep donald trump out of the first debate. fox also announced at the very last minute a change in which polls they would be using to decide who would be allowed into the boat. at the very last minute, they decided to exclude one poll that would have showed one percentage point difference between those wh