Fox News announces prime-time GOP debate participants

The poll comes just two days ahead of the first presidential debate set for Thursday on Fox News.

“We never ever envisioned we’d have 17 major candidates”, said Steve Duprey, New Hampshire’s representative to the Republican National Committee who helped craft the debate plan.

Mr. Trump’s Summer Surge is at the expense of other Republicans, including Messrs Bush, Walker, and Rubio, who have seen their national poll numbers drop since Donald Trump’s official entry into the race 7 weeks ago. & is agreed to be scheduled to run two hours. The billionaire businessman who declined to participate in Monday’s gathering is poised to take center stage later in the next meeting.

“You want to stanch the flow”, he said as his Republican rivals watched from the front row of the crowded St. Anselm College auditorium. Carly Fiorina, considered a long-shot for the top ten, made a point of thanking the organizers of Monday’s for inviting all the candidates, saying that “we don’t have a national primary”.

“Everyone else is dancing around it. I’m going to stand for the American worker”, Santorum declared.

“He’s a mainstream conservative candidate who has broad appeal within the party”. He’ll join an array of Republican officeholders and some newcomers. Of the three, Paul’s grasp on a podium is most tenuous, as Trump has devoured airtime and drawn away some of the Kentucky senator’s more fringe supporters.

“We had to be here to vote to de-fund Planned Parenthood”, Cruz said.

Maybe the fact that he is new to the electoral politics is alluring to Republican voters. Sixty-five percent identified as Republican and 6 percent as Democrats. Most of the candidates discussed it, and the issue of illegal immigration has fueled much of Trump’s rise in the polls.

Others offered a softer tone. Ohio Gov. John Kasich is also on the bubble.

Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker called the move “a buzz saw to the nation’s economy”.

The rest of the field remains in single-digits, with support for each candidate a bit more fluid, but the most recent five polls have been largely consistent in determining who will make the cut for the primetime debate will be. Those on the bubble include South Carolina Sen.

The only woman of the GOP field, former Hewlett-Packard CEO Carly Fiorina, delivered one of the most attention-grabbing lines of the night, clearly targeting Hillary Clinton while making her case.

“These go to the core of her character”, Fiorina said.

After the forum, Kasich was asked about Trump’s absence. CBS News reports that Trump, “appears to have tapped into public anger toward Washington: he holds a large lead among Republican primary voters who say they are raging”. “It’d have been great if he’d have been here”.