CNN RULES WOULD HAVE BARRED EVERY INDEPENDENT PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE FOR LAST 112 YEARS
On May 15, CNN announced rules for getting into its June 27 presidential debate: (1) the candidate must have been at 15% or above in four national polls; and (2) the candidate must certified for the ballot in states with at least 270 electoral votes, by June 20.
The second rule, if it had been in effect over the last 112 years, would have barred every independent presidential candidate, and every presidential nominee of a new party, no matter how much popular support the candidate had enjoyed.
1912: Theodore Roosevelt, the nominee of the new Progressive Party, was not nominated by his new party until August 5. Furthermore, the Progressive Party did not even exist until after Roosevelt was defeated at the Republican convention on June 18-22.