Who made the GOP debate roster

Who made the GOP debate roster August 5, 2015

Fox News, which is conducting the first Republican presidential primary debate, has crunched the poll numbers to arrive at the top 10 candidates.  These will debate each other on Thursday night, 9:00 p.m. ET.

The remaining seven second-tier candidates will debate each other at 5:00 p.m. ET.

See the lists after the jump.

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FOX NEWS ANNOUNCES the line-up for the prime-time debate this Thursday, and here’s who qualified: Real estate magnate Donald Trump; former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush; Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker; former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee; retired neurosurgeon Ben Carson; Texas Sen. Ted Cruz; Florida Sen. Marco Rubio; Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul; New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie; and Ohio Gov. John Kasich.

That list appears to be in order of the rankings.  That would leave for the not-ready-for-prime-time debate the following:

former Texas governor Rick Perry, former Pennsylvania Senator Rick Santorum, Louisiana governor Bobby Jindal, former Hewlett-Packard CEO Carly Fiorina, South Carolina Senator Lindsey Graham, former Virginia governor Jim Gilmore, and former New York governor George Pataki.

 

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