‘This Is B.S.’: GOP Candidates Slam RNC After Failing To Make Debate

Four Republican backbencher candidates who failed to qualify for the first 2024 GOP presidential debate this week slammed the Republican National Committee over its rules, with multiple contenders calling them “rigged.”

“This is B.S.,” conservative radio host Larry Elder complained in a video he shared online. “It is designed, in my opinion, to ensure that [Florida Gov.] Ron DeSantis is the nominee — anybody other than Donald Trump.”

Elder, who mounted an unsuccessful bid to oust California Gov. Gavin Newsom, said he intended to file an emergency lawsuit to halt…