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Spectator USA
Spectator USA
2 Jun 2023
Matt McDonald


NextImg:Revealed: first Republican presidential debate requirements

The Republican National Committee today confirmed the criteria for presidential candidates to qualify for their first primary debate, which will take place in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, on Wednesday August 23.

Alongside the standard requirements of being eligible to run and a declared candidate with the appropriate FEC paperwork filed, to make the cut, a candidate must:

Should it be required, a second day of debates will be held on Thursday August 24.

It is not clear at this time how the RNC plans to respond if a candidate chooses to break the pledge to support the eventual GOP nominee.

“The RNC is committed to putting on a fair, neutral and transparent primary process and the qualifying criteria will put our party and eventual nominee in the best position to take back the White House come November 2024,” RNC chairwoman Ronna McDaniel said in a statement.

Ahead of the 2016 election, the RNC’s first debates took place in Cleveland, Ohio, on August 6, 2015. Seven weaker-polling candidates took part in the undercard debate in the early evening: Carly Fiorina, Jim Gilmore, Lindsey Graham, Bobby Jindal, George Pataki, Rick Perry and Rick Santorum. Then in primetime, the ten highest-polling candidates locked horns: Jeb Bush, Ben Carson, Chris Christie, Ted Cruz, John Kasich, Mike Huckabee, Rand Paul, Marco Rubio, Donald Trump and Scott Walker. It’s not yet clear whether the RNC will split the two prospective debates between major and minor candidates — or whether they’ll do what the Democrats did in Miami in 2019 and split a mix of candidates across each night.