Sixteen presidential candidates talking over each other doesn’t sound much like good TV. CNN and Fox News know this, so when they air their Republican debates later this year, they’ll both limit the field to 10 candidates.
Both networks will use polling data to limit the field to only the 10 most popular candidates (CNN will have a second debate featuring the also-rans). It’ll cut down on the chaos, but there’s a big problem with winnowing down the field this way: the lowest-rated people included in the debate might not deserve to be there. CONT.
Danielle Kurtzleben, NPR