Huntsman to Skip New Hampshire Debate

Former Utah Gov. Jon Huntsman said yesterday that he won’t be on stage when the current field of GOP presidential candidates duke it out in a June 13 debate in New Hampshire.

The former U.S. ambassador to China won’t be participating in any presidential debates until he makes a final decision about running, said Paul Collins, a senior New Hampshire strategist for Huntsman.

Huntsman, who recently spent five days in New Hampshire, is still testing the waters and won’t make a decision about entering the race until sometime after the June 13 debate, said Collins.

The debate, originally scheduled for June 7, is being sponsored by CNN, the Manchester Union Leader, and WMUR-TV and will be broadcast live from Saint Anselm College.

Coming nearly six weeks after the May 5 South Carolina Republican presidential debate — a low-key event that drew only a handful of second-tier candidates — the New Hampshire debate is expected to draw some of the party‘s bigger names.

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