{"id":28986,"date":"2011-05-03T13:54:38","date_gmt":"2011-05-03T19:54:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nmpolitics.net\/index\/?p=28986"},"modified":"2011-05-03T13:54:58","modified_gmt":"2011-05-03T19:54:58","slug":"johnson-to-take-part-in-televised-presidential-debate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/2011\/05\/johnson-to-take-part-in-televised-presidential-debate\/","title":{"rendered":"Johnson to take part in televised presidential debate"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_28107\"  class=\"wp-caption module image alignright\" style=\"max-width: 270px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-28107 \" title=\"Johnson, Gary\" src=\"http:\/\/www.nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/Johnson-Gary.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"270\" height=\"242\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Gary Johnson<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The first debate for Republican presidential candidates of the 2012 election cycle will be held Thursday, and former N.M. Gov. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.garyjohnson2012.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Gary Johnson<\/a> will participate.<\/p>\n<p>Johnson\u2019s campaign <a href=\"http:\/\/www.garyjohnson2012.com\/first-in-the-south-republican-presidential-debate\" target=\"_blank\">confirmed today<\/a> that he\u2019s attending. The debate will be televised by Fox News starting at 7 p.m. MST. It\u2019s being held in South Carolina.<\/p>\n<p>Johnson\u2019s campaign had to pay $25,000 to get on the ballot in South Carolina and be eligible to participate in the debate. This will be Johnson\u2019s first real chance to show a wide audience what he\u2019s about as a presidential candidate.<\/p>\n<p>Some of the most high-profile candidates and potential candidates \u2013 including <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Mitt_Romney\" target=\"_blank\">Mitt Romney<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Newt_Gingrich\" target=\"_blank\">Newt Gingrich<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Mike_Huckabee\" target=\"_blank\">Mike Huckabee<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Donald_Trump\" target=\"_blank\">Donald Trump<\/a> \u2013 aren\u2019t expected to participate in Thursday\u2019s debate.<\/p>\n<p>As the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/news\/politics\/la-pn-fox-south-carolina-debate-20110503,0,4969337.story\" target=\"_blank\">L.A. Times<\/a> has reported, <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Tim_Pawlenty\" target=\"_blank\">Tim Pawlenty<\/a> is the only \u201ctop-tier\u201d candidate expected to participate. The others expected to participate along with Pawlenty and Johnson are <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Herman_Cain\" target=\"_blank\">Herman Cain<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ron_Paul\" target=\"_blank\">Ron Paul<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Rick_Santorum\" target=\"_blank\">Rick Santorum<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The first debate for GOP presidential candidates of the 2012 election cycle will be held Thursday, and former N.M. Gov. Gary Johnson will participate.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[156,107,116],"class_list":["post-28986","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-2012-election","tag-roundhouse","tag-washington"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28986","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28986"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28986\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28986"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28986"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28986"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}