Carly Fiorina Declares ‘The Game is Rigged’

By Published on February 5, 2016

“The game is rigged,” Carly Fiorina declared Friday. A day after being denied a place at Saturday night’s GOP debate on ABC, Fiorina is ripping both the “network of George Stephanopoulos” and the Republican National Committee, accusing both of “caving to pressure from the same establishment candidates we beat who are afraid to debate me.”

“They don’t want your votes to count. They don’t want your voice to be heard. The network of George Stephanopoulos wants to tell you to sit down and shut up and elect Hillary Clinton.” Carly Fiorina

Fiorina did not meet ABC’s criteria to qualify for the debate. She was not among the top six in an average of national polls, nor in the top six in an average of New Hampshire polls. Nor did she finish in the top three in Iowa. But that misses the point, Fiorina told MSNBC’s Morning Joe: “You see the voters of Iowa voted, and in that vote I beat Christie, I beat Kasich, I tied Bush for delegates, and yet I’m not on the stage and they are.”

“What this debate debacle shows is that votes and delegates don’t matter that much anymore,” she said, and the voters of New Hampshire ought to be angry. “Apparently ABC and the RNC are saying, ‘No, you can’t make up your minds three days before the primary. We have to take somebody off the stage who’s clearly a viable candidate.'”

Fiorina elaborated in a statement posted to Medium.Com: “They don’t want your votes to count. They don’t want your voice to be heard. The network of George Stephanopoulos wants to tell you to sit down and shut up and elect Hillary Clinton.”

Good Morning America host Stephanopoulos was a senior adviser to Bill Clinton and admits donating $75,000 to the Clinton Foundation between 2012-14. Also, it was during ABC’s 2012 GOP debate in New Hampshire that Stephanopoulos sprung on Mitt Romney a question out of left field about birth control. That question gave rise to the Democrats’ fictional “Republican War on Women” motif.

Romney, incidentally, has argued for Fiorina to be included in Saturday’s debate, as has Newt Gingrich. The Weekly Standard’s Bill Kristol also weighed in this morning, with some advice for RNC boss Reince Priebus:

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