CNN Confirms That Only Joe Biden And Donald Trump Will Be In Debate — Not Robert Kennedy Jr.
deadline.comDonald Trump and Joe Biden will be the only two candidates participating in next week’s CNN presidential debate, the network said, as independent Robert Kennedy Jr.
failed to qualify. The qualification window closed just after midnight today, the network said. To qualify, candidates had to be on enough state ballots to reach 270 electoral votes, or enough to win.
They also had to receive at least 15% in four separate national polls, among those specified by the network. Kennedy had reached that threshold in three polls, but was on the ballot in only 10 states, short of the 270 electoral votes, according to NBC News.
The Kennedy campaign had said that it had enough signatures in 23 states, with 310 electoral votes. But those signatures still need to be verified by state elections officials.
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