CNN Confirm RFK Will Not Be Debate Participant

(FeaturedHeadlines.com) Left-leaning media network CNN has confirmed that only Joe Biden and Donald Trump will participate in its June 27 presidential debate, while the independent candidate RFK Jr. failed to meet the qualifying criteria.

According to CNN’s rules, candidates must have ballot access in enough states to accumulate at least 270 electoral college votes and have the support of at least 15% of voters in four different nationwide polls in order to qualify for the debate.

RFK Jr. only managed to get the backing of 15% or more voters in three polls, and he is not yet eligible to appear on state ballots totaling 270 or more electoral college votes.

Although the RFK Jr. campaign claimed that they had gathered the necessary signatures to appear on the ballots of 23 states with a total of 310 electoral college votes, these signatures are yet to be verified by election officials in most states, which rules out the possibility of his participation in the first presidential debate.

Now, Kennedy has more time to prepare for the second debate, which has the same criteria as CNN’s and will be conducted by ABC News on September 10.

RFK Jr. has long accused both mainstream candidates of colluding with each other to keep him off the debate stage. He stated that more than 70% of Americans do not want to see Trump and Biden’s rematch in 2024, adding that keeping a candidate away from a presidential debate is against democracy.

The independent presidential hopeful also accused CNN of agreeing to the “un-American and cowardly” demands of both mainstream political parties by not including him in the debate.

While independent or third-party candidates appear on the presidential ballot every election cycle, it is extremely uncommon for them to qualify for the presidential debates.

Ross Perot was the last independent candidate to appear in the presidential debates in the 1992 election cycle against then-President George H.W. Bush and his Democratic rival Bill Clinton.

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