The Republican Party holds their first debates of the 2016 Presidential Candidates this evening, airing live on Fox New channel at 9pm Eastern, from Cleveland, Ohio. And, guess what, fight-fans! There’s even an undercard featuring the long-shot candidates starting at 5pm.
In the Main Event, 10 candidates will square off in what will be more like a parallel news conference(to use Ralph Nader’s term) in which they will field questions from the moderators, Brett Bair and Megyn Kelly, and occassionally from each other.
The participants in today’s GOP debates are as follows (in no particular order)
Main Event
entrepreneur Donald Trump
former Governor of Arkansas Mike Huckabee
Senator Ted Cruz (Texas)
Senator Marco Rubio (Florida)
former Governor of Florida, Jeb Bush
Senator Rand Paul (Kentucky)
Governor of New Jersey Chris Christie
Governor of Wisconsin Scott Walker
Governor of Ohio John Kasich
Dr. Ben Carson
The Undercard
former Governor of New York George Pataki
entrepreneur Carly Fiorina
Governor Bobby Jindal (Louisiana)
Senator Lindsey Graham
former Senator Rick Santorum
Governor of Texas Rick Perry
Jim Gilmore
Fist Things First 