Johnson, Stein Don't Make Debate Cutoff
Updated 3:56 PM
Johnson, Stein Don't Make Debate Cutoff
Updated 3:56 PM ET, Fri September 16, 2016
Only Clinton, Trump have been invited to participate in first debate
Washington (CNN)Libertarian Gary Johnson and Green Party nominee Jill Stein will not participate in the first presidential debate, and their running mates will not be in the vice presidential debate, the Commission on Presidential Debates announced Friday.
The decision means Democrat Hillary Clinton and Republican Donald Trump will be the only two candidates on the stage on September 26, and Tim Kaine and Mike Pence, their respective running mates, will be the only participants on October 4.
The candidates needed to make a 15% polling threshold across several major national polls in order to qualify for the debates. The commission determined that the polling averages for the candidates had Clinton at 43%, Trump at 40.4%, Johnson at 8.4% and Stein at 3.2%.
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Johnson has publicly said that being excluded from the debates would doom his campaign.
Johnson said he wasn't surprised by the decision to "exclude" him from the first debate.
"There are more polls and more debates, and we plan to be on the debate stage in October," Johnson said in a statement.
Stein's campaign did not immediately respond to a CNN request for comment.
The commission said it will review the criteria for the second and third debates in the future, but didn't specify in the release when it would make the announcement.
NBC's Lester Holt will moderate the first debate on September 26. CNN's Anderson Cooper and ABC's Martha Raddatz will lead the second debate, a town hall format, on October 9. Fox's Chris Wallace will moderate the third debate on October 19.
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