Local presidential debate watch party Thursday night

Rick Santorum – are taking in part in what Graham is calling the “Happy Hour Debate”, which will also be televised on Fox News.

Perry reacted positively, focusing on his participation in the
5 p.m. debate among the remaining seven candidates with the lowest rankings in the polls.

Candidates who stray from the pack.

“It’s unfortunate that Gov. Perry won’t be participating in the debate”, Mair said. “The common refrain is going to be anti-Obama”.

U.S. Sens. Ted Cruz, Marco Rubio and Rand Paul and New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie rounded out the Top 10. “Some don’t. And, again, he’s got to be careful with that”.

While Trump was far and away the front-runner in the five most recent national polls that determined the debate lineup, several candidates were grouped together in the single digits, most separated by a number smaller than the margin of error.

“The debates matter but these elections are won in the trenches; they’re won with the folks out here”, he said on Monday after a candidate forum in New Hampshire, for which he took some ribbing because he slouched when he was onstage. “They should not look for theatrics; they should not look for coarse or incendiary language to equate to leadership”. “They should not be picking winners and losers”.

A candidate will get a 30-second rebuttal if he is mentioned by name by another debate participant.

There are plenty of shopping days left, but a lot to sort through with 17 announced candidates. Assuming Kasich gets at least a few minutes to communicate on the national stage, Rath said, “I don’t see how there’s a downside for him“.

Members of the “B” team might elevate their stature. He expects Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., to be dining with the adults after his performance.

Liz Mair, a Republican strategist who worked for Perry’s previous presidential campaign, says that the main event will hurt by the absence of the former Texas governor and Sen.

“Therefore, and for other reasons including the fact that I feel there are too many people onstage to have a proper forum, I will not be attending”, Trump wrote in a letter to the Union Leader. Rick Santorum; former HP chief Carly Fiorina; former New York Gov. George Pataki; and former Virginia Gov. Jim Gilmore. And that means it could be more substantive and give new candidates a chance to rise ahead of the next debate. Defeat, not so much.

Less than four years ago, Rick Perry led in national polls of Republican presidential primary voters. Perry said Trump was “unfit” to be president after he dismissed Arizona Sen.

But the jam-packed Republican field will be narrowed considerably for the first formal debate of the 2016 primary season later in the week. “I think it could have been done better for all concerned”.

The two-hour long rapid-fire interviews at the “Voters First Forum” in at St. Anselm College in Manchester, N.H., had the feel of a speed-dating session as the 14 Republicans in attendance fired off their talking points in what amounted to abbreviated stump speeches, hoping voters would want a second date.

Shine is no fan of the short-answer format.

“Well, it’s one of the reasons I’m a little bit more than just a passable expert on that because the state of Texas created more jobs than anybody in this room over the course of the time that I was the governor”, Perry said.