{"id":1290,"date":"2016-01-12T09:43:49","date_gmt":"2016-01-12T01:43:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/2016\/01\/12\/rand-paul-carly-fiorina-cut-from-main-gop-debate-lineup\/"},"modified":"2016-01-12T09:43:49","modified_gmt":"2016-01-12T01:43:49","slug":"rand-paul-carly-fiorina-cut-from-main-gop-debate-lineup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/2016\/01\/12\/rand-paul-carly-fiorina-cut-from-main-gop-debate-lineup\/","title":{"rendered":"Rand Paul, Carly Fiorina cut from main GOP debate lineup"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul and former HP chief executive Carly Fiorina did not make the cut to participate in the first primetime GOP presidential debate of 2016.<\/p>\n

Paul and Fiorina were each invited to participate in a smaller, 6 p.m. ET debate, which Paul told CNN he plans to skip.<\/p>\n

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See also: Meet the three YouTube stars who will interview Obama this week<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

“An artificial designation as being in the second tier is something we can’t accept,” Paul told CNN on Monday, before the debate lineup was announced publicly. “I won’t participate in anything that’s not the first tier.”<\/p>\n

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.@RandPaul<\/a> to CNN: “We will not participate in anything that’s not first-tier.\u201d https:\/\/t.co\/ESS97hF0fq<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2014 Juana Summers (@jmsummers) January 11, 2016<\/a> Read more…<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul and former HP chief executive Carly Fiorina did not make the cut to participate in the first primetime GOP presidential debate of 2016. Paul and Fiorina were each invited to participate in a smaller, 6 p.m. … Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":115,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[931,833,749,865,732],"class_list":["post-1290","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-other","tag-carly-fiorina","tag-donald-trump","tag-politics","tag-us","tag-us-world"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1290","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/115"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1290"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1290\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1290"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1290"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1290"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}