CNBC Agrees to Debate Format, Trump and Carson Not Dropping Out

“Fantastic news for all…..millions of people who will be watching”.

While the increasing poll numbers are a good sign for Donald Trump in the short term, in a larger way they seem to lend credence to his status as the frontrunner.

CNBC agreed to limit its October 28 debate to two hours, including commercials.

But Trump took to Twitter on Thursday to express his anger.

CNBC agreed on Friday to Donald Trump and Ben Carson’s demands that its upcoming GOP presidential debate be two hours and include opening and closing statements.

“The @GOP should not agree to the ridiculous debate terms that @CNBC is asking unless there is a major benefit to the party”, he said.

“For heaven sakes, we have ten candidates on stage”.

“I frankly think that it is helpful to have someone who has more extensive experience in government and in leadership roles, serving as the leader of our country”. He accused CNN and other debate hosts of wanting to lengthen the events in order to sell more commercials.

Trump added that increasing the debate to three hours is “unfair to the viewers because it’s too much….”

“This is one of the things you can do right now to show your support”, she said.

Mike Huckabee’s people were anxious about candidates not getting equal time to talk during the debate. “Bernie Sanders (I-VT) gave [Hillary Clinton] a big pass by saying, ‘the American people are exhausted of hearing about your emails and your server”, she said of the Vermont senator’s handling of Clinton, the Democratic presidential front-runner.

Paul may have the decision about whether her participates made for him. He may not even qualify for the main stage based on his current polling numbers.

Meanwhile, Fox News also conducted a national poll.

Trump leads second-place Ben Carson 38 percent to 22 percent in Nevada, and in South Carolina is beating Carson by a margin of 36 percent to 18 percent.

CNBC spokesman Brian Steel said in a statement that the network was aiming to host “the most substantive debate possible”, but was open to changing the format. Several campaign organisations reportedly expressed displeasure, but no candidates went as far as Carson and Trump, in threatening to pull out.

Moreover, we’re using our Commitment and Rejection Indexes as a way of determining voters who are strongly committed to a candidate and those who have little chance of supporting a candidate. The CNN debate that followed was three hours long, and I’m not entirely sure it has yet ended. Trump is therefore spending money at a faster clip than he’s raising it. Moreover, the campaign also has incurred more than $1.8 million of debts and obligations – no doubt, many of them to Trump himself.