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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.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
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Fox News, which is conducting the first Republican presidential primary debate, has crunched the poll numbers to arrive at the top 10 candidates.\u00a0 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.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1281,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[3457,3968,3969],"class_list":["post-21959","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","tag-2016-presidential-election","tag-presidential-debates","tag-republican-presidential-candidates"],"yoast_head":"\n
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