Radio host and presidential hopeful Larry Elder says he’s suing the Republican National Committee after officials told him he would not be allowed on stage for the first debate among 2024 White House candidates.
Radio host and presidential hopeful Larry Elder says he’s suing the Republican National Committee after officials told him he would not be allowed on stage for the first debate among 2024 White House candidates.
“This is absolutely B.S.,” Elder said in a video he posted Tuesday morning from Los Angeles International Airport on his way to Milwaukee where the debate will take place at 9 p.m. Eastern Wednesday evening.
Elder, who is also a best-selling author and longtime WND columnist, was informed he did not meet the qualifications to be on the stage, despite his assertions he had met them all.
The RNC required all challengers to meet a 40,000 unique donor threshold, meet certain minimum polling criteria, and sign a loyalty pledge to support the eventual nominee.
“Even though I submitted three polls where I was at least 1%, I was informed that one of the polls is not eligible,” Elder said.
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“It’s the Rasmussen Poll. Even though it’s the most accurate poll in predicting that Donald Trump would win in 2016, they say it is affiliated with Donald Trump, and therefore it is not eligible.
“And I said to Ronna McDaniel, the chairwoman of the RNC, ‘It’s not affiliated with me.’ She said, ‘Any poll affiliated with any candidate is not eligible.’ And no one told me that until just now. So we’re filing an emergency injunction to get me up there.”
“I said from the beginning that it appeared the rules of the game were rigged, little did we know just how rigged it is,” Elder said in another release.
