Lineup announced for Thursday GOP debate

“We think it’s a rotten thing to do to try to designate which candidates have a chance and don’t, so we will not participate in anything that is not first tier”, Paul told CNN host Wolf Blitzer said.

Republican presidential candidates Rand Paul and Carly Fiorina have been cut from the next mainstage debate on Thursday.

The debate announcement is the latest blow to Paul’s hopes of winning the Republican presidential nomination.

Paul has repeatedly criticized the debate formats, saying last month that he would flat out refuse to participate in any of the undercard debates. Paul trailed Bush for the final spot in the debate nationally and in Iowa by 0.8 and 0.6 percentage points, respectively, according to an ABC News analysis. The five most-recent polls of Iowa Republican caucus-goers – conducted by Quinnipiac University, NBC and the Wall Street Journal, Fox News, the Des Moines Register, and Gravis Marketing – put Trump, Cruz, Rubio, Carson, and Bush in the top five. “Paul has a top-tier campaign”.

The cable news channel announced Monday night on the “Lou Dobbs Tonight” show that businessman Donald Trump with take center stage in the 9 p.m. debate Thursday along with Sens. He entered the campaign cycle as “the most interesting man in politics“, but the only possible way he lived up to that hype is if millions of Americans are sitting at home thinking, boy, it sure is interesting than Rand Paul’s campaign never amounted to much.

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To qualify for the primetime debate, a candidate needed to be either among the top six in an average of the five most recent national polls, or among the top five in an average of the five most recent Iowa or New Hampshire polls FBN said.

Following the interview, Paul’s campaign released a statement in which it protested Paul’s treatment by the media.

Chris Christie missed the top-tier debate in November and shined in the earlier debate.