Fergus Cullen, chairman of the New Hampshire Republican Party, is battling a Fox News plan to invite only a few candidates to a televised Republican forum set for Jan. 6. That’s not fair, Cullen says.
“Limiting the number of candidates who are invited to participate in debates is not consistent with the tradition of the first in the nation primary,” Cullen wrote in a press release. “The level playing field requires that all serious candidates be given an equal opportunity to participate – not just a select few determined by the media prior to any votes being cast.”
Cullen said he is in talks with Fox News about the forum. He did not mention ABC News, which is a sponsor of Saturday night’s debates at Saint Anselm College. ABC and WMUR have also set a qualifier for that event, but the candidates who miss the cut will not be known until Jan. 4.
