CNN Changes Debate Rules After Fiorina Outcry

 

By Carrie Dann

CNN is amending the rules for its September 16 Republican debate amid outcry that its criteria for participation would unfairly exclude Carly Fiorina despite her recent boost in national polls.

Previously, CNN planned to average national polls dating from mid-July all the way until a cutoff date on September 10. The top 10 candidates, according to that average, would participate in the network's primetime debate, while the remainder of the GOP field would be relegated to a secondary forum earlier the same day.

But that criteria looked likely to exclude Fiorina, who registered very low numbers in the nine national polls taken before the August 6 FOX debate, where her performance earned her a polling bump. 

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Source: NBC News