Time to shine: Most Americans say they’ll tune in to hear GOP ideas during debate Thursday

A majority of likely Republican voters plan to tune in to the first GOP presidential debate Thursday night, even if they don’t believe it is likely to have a major impact on the outcome of the party’s primary.

According to recent polling data from Rasmussen, an impressive 90 percent of likely Republican voters plan to watch at least a portion of the debate airing on 9 p.m. EST on Fox News.

The potential debate audience remains hefty, at 79 percent, among voters from all political backgrounds.

Even though likely voters plan to catch some of the debate, they aren’t convinced that candidate performance weighs heavily on primary outcomes. Forty-three percent of likely Republican voters and just 19 percent of all voters say they believe the upcoming debate will affect how people vote in the GOP primary.

Fox on Tuesday announced that Republican presidential candidates Donald Trump, Jeb Bush, Scott Walker, Mike Huckabee, Ben Carson, Ted Cruz, Marco Rubio, Rand Paul, Chris Christie and John Kasich will take the stage for the event, based on the network’s decision to include only those with the highest rankings in five major national polls. Those polls were conducted by Bloomberg, CBS News, Fox News, Monmouth University and Quinnipiac University.

GOP candidates who failed to meet the threshold for inclusion include: Rick Perry, Rick Santorum, Bobby Jindal, Carly Fiorina, Lindsey Graham, George Pataki and Jim Gilmore.

President Barack Obama urged supporters to tune in to the GOP debate even if they disagree with all of the candidates involved because, “They know how to make policies that will take us in the wrong direction sound like they might actually be pretty good ideas.”

“That’s exactly why I’m calling on you to tune in, listen carefully to what the Republican candidates for president say, and then hold them accountable for trying to undo all of the hard work we’ve done to move this country forward,” Obama said. “I can’t overstate what an important difference you can make by doing this.”

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