Details on the Presidential Debate at Reagan Library May 3

MSNBC will televise the first Republican Presidential debate featuring all of the leading Republican candidates for the White House May 3rd from the Reagan Library in Simi Valley. It's a 90 minute event beginning at 5:00 PM Pacific time. Candidates participating will be: Sam Brownback, Jim Gilmore, Rudy Giuliani, Mike Huckabee, Duncan Hunter, John McCain, Ron Paul, Mitt Romney, and Tommy Thompson.

This is a great opportunity for county Republican committees and Republican clubs to host local debate-watching events, inviting donors, volunteers, elected officials, candidates and activists to watch our candidates discuss the issues and their own qualifications for the world's most important elected office. If your committee puts on such an event, be sure to let CRP know so we can feature it on our event calendar.

If you're interested in attending in person, unfortuantely tickets are not available for the general public due to limited space and security concerns. You can read the full statement from the Reagan Library here.

Interestingly, the Reagan Library will also host a second Presidential debate on January 30, 2008 -- the last debate before the February 5th primaries. Read more about that here.