Fox News has announced the 10 candidates that will be on stage for the first Republican Presidential debate on August 6, 2015.
Fox News’s decision to cap the prime-time debate at 10 candidates based on five previously-unspecified national polls led to weeks of intense speculation over who would be in and who would be out.
For those who missed the prime-time cut, Fox News is holding a one-hour forum that will air at 5 p.m. on Thursday ahead of the 9 p.m. debate.
The forum was originally scheduled to be 90 minutes and take place at 1 p.m., but Fox has moved it closer to prime-time while cutting it down to one hour.
Former Texas Gov. Rick Perry, former Sen. Rick Santorum, Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal, businesswoman Carly Fiorina, Sen. Lindsey Graham, former New York Gov. George Pataki, and former Sen. Jim Gilmore have been invited to that event.
Tuesday’s announcement comes after weeks of criticism from candidates, pollsters and pundits, who argued that Fox News should not use national polls to determine who makes it on the debate stage.
Earlier this week, the Marist Institute for Public Opinion announced it was suspending its latest survey to ensure that their polling was not one of the five polls Fox will use to determine the contestants.
Marist argued that too many candidates are separated by too small of margins and that national polling is not precise enough to determine the true standing of candidates at this point. The outlet also said it turned independent analysts into participants in the debate process.
Fox said the surveys used to determine the top 10 for Thursday were those conducted for Fox News, Bloomberg, CBS News, Monmouth University, and Quinnipiac University.
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