On Sunday, December 13, CNN announced the names of the nine Republican presidential candidates who qualified for the main stage for the December 15 debate. See this story. Essentially the criteria was to be at 3%. The debate is in Las Vegas. There will also be a subsidiary debate with four other Republican presidential candidates.
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Edited By Richard Winger
To be more precise, a candidate needed an average of either 3.5% nationally, 4% in Iowa, or 4% in New Hampshire to make the main debate.
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