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California’s Largest Voting Bloc Isn’t Republican or Democrat—Should an Independent Be in the Debates?

As Republican and Democratic candidates slug it out in debates to be California’s next governor, candidates who fit into the independent category continue to be shut out.

In Tuesday night’s debate hosted by CBS News, the players on the stage included two Republicans and six Democrats—and zero independents.

Elaine Culotti, an independent candidate who has polled as high as 23% on Polymarket but now is under 1%, claims the media is at fault for her sagging popularity.

If candidates get included in media polling and do well, they get to share the debate stage. If they’re excluded from polls, tough luck.

“Every single poll is the same problem, which is a violation of equal time,” Culotti told The Daily Signal. “Equal time should require that all candidates and all parties get to be on the poll. Otherwise, the poll is the mechanism in which they choose the debate candidates.”

The Pomona College website notes the candidates in Tuesday night’s debate were decided based on having at least 1% support in both the Emerson College and LA Times/UC Berkeley polls. The selection process was run by........

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