FOX Business Network Announces GOP Debate Lineup

The debate stage won’t be nearly as crowded when Republican presidential candidates gather in Milwaukee on Tuesday November 10.

FOX News’ Jared Halpern tells us who is in and who is out:

From America’s Election Headquarters…

To make the prime-time debate next week sponsored by FOX Business Network, candidates had to score an average of at least two-and-half percent in four recent polls… just eight Republicans did.

Donald Trump and Ben Carson., along with Senators Marco Rubio and Ted Cruz, Jeb Bush, Carly Fiorina, Governor John Kasich and Senator Rand Paul.

Left off the main stage… New Jersey Governor Chris Christie and former Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee… a first for both. Both, however, reached the one percent polling minimum needed to debate in the earlier session… so did Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal and former Senator Rick Santorum.

But former Governor George Patkai and Senator Lindsey Graham, who have participated in earlier debates, did not make the cut.

The first debate is next Tuesday at 7pm ET. The prime-time debate follows at 9pm on FOX Business Network and heard on FOX News Radio.

Jared Halpern, Fox News.