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CNN CANCELS NEW HAMPSHIRE DEBATE AFTER TRUMP, HALEY DECLINE INVITATION


ABC CANCELED ITS DEBATE IN THE STATE A DAY AGO, CITING THE SAME REASON

By Mariana Alfaro
and 
Maegan Vazquez
January 17, 2024 at 10:59 a.m. EST

Just two candidates were onstage at the last Republican debate, Florida Gov. Ron
DeSantis and former U.N. ambassador Nikki Haley. (Tom Brenner/For the Washington
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CNN will no longer host a Republican primary debate in New Hampshire because
just one qualified candidate, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, accepted the network’s
invitation to appear onstage.

“We will continue to pursue other opportunities as the campaign season
progresses through 2024,” a CNN spokesperson said Wednesday in an email to The
Washington Post about the debate’s cancellation.



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The debate was scheduled to be held at New England College on Sunday, two days
before the Jan. 23 New Hampshire primary. While former president Donald Trump —
the primary’s front-runner since the race kicked off — has declined to
participate in any of the GOP debates, former U.N. ambassador Nikki Haley had
participated in all previous debates. After the Iowa caucuses, in which she
finished third behind Trump and DeSantis, Haley declined not only CNN’s
invitation to debate but one from ABC News, which was scheduled to host a debate
on Thursday from the Granite State.

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Of her decision to not participate in ABC News’s debate, Haley said she won’t
join any further debates unless they include Trump or President Biden. A debate
with Biden onstage would not take place until the general election season.



“We’ve had five great debates in this campaign,” Haley said in a statement
Tuesday morning. “Unfortunately, Donald Trump has ducked all of them. He has
nowhere left to hide.”

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Instead, Haley will participate in a CNN town hall Thursday at 9 p.m. Eastern
time. DeSantis, the only Republican who committed to both New Hampshire debates
before their cancellation, participated in one on Tuesday.

Last week, Haley expressed frustration about having debates without Trump
onstage and said she would wait until the Iowa caucuses to decide about
participating in New Hampshire debates.

On Tuesday, DeSantis tweeted that Haley was too “afraid to participate in the
remaining debates.”

“I won’t snub New Hampshire voters like both Nikki Haley and Donald Trump, and
plan to honor my commitments. I look forward to debating two empty podiums in
the Granite State this week,” he added.


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president Donald Trump, former Trump U.N. ambassador Nikki Haley and Florida
Gov. Ron DeSantis. For the Democrats, President Biden is running for reelection
in 2024. Here is The Post’s ranking of the top 10 Republican presidential
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