George Pataki: Presidential competition is branch into a ‘reality drum show’

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Three-term former New York administrator George Pataki, 70, was means to lay down with USA TODAY’s Capital Download in New York on Tuesday morning since he didn’t need to locate a moody to Milwaukee. He had been bumped from a fourth GOP discuss there for failing to strech a 1% station in inhabitant polls to attend in a undercard event. Questions and answers have been edited for length and clarity.

Q: Do we consider a discuss manners are fair?

Pataki:

Q: What will we be doing tonight instead?

Pataki:

Q: Do we ever consider it’s time to container it in?

Pataki:

Q: What could occur that would prompt we to withdraw?

Pataki:

I know that whenever Donald Trump goes on stage, they get large ratings. …. It shouldn’t be about a media company’s ratings, it shouldn’t be about a income or name ID we have early in a routine that determines who a American people should select from. It is destroying a New Hampshire primary. It is branch a American presidency into a existence drum show, and that’s not right.

Q: Do we consider it’s probable Trump could be a Republican nominee?

Pataki:

Q: If Trump is nominated, would we opinion for him?

Pataki:

Q: Are we endangered about a instruction of a Republican Party?

Pataki:

Q: We asked readers for questions. Here’s a twitter from Inger: “When will he get out of a race and validate Marco Rubio?”

Pataki:

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