Will Gary Johson be in the presidential debate? Here's where he stands in the election.

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Libertarian presidential nominee Gary Johnson is not qualified to participate in the third presidential debate on Wednesday, Oct. 19 in Nevada, according to the Commission on Presidential Debates. 

In a statement from the commission released Friday, the commission outlined the criteria that would allow someone to garner an invitation to the debate and only two candidates met the criteria — Republican nominee Donald Trump and Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton. 

The commission did not invite Johnson to the debate. 

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According to the commission, in order to receive an invite, the candidate must be eligible to hold the office under the constitution, have gotten on enough state ballots to win a majority of the electoral college and have the support of at least 15% of the electorate. 

According to the polls read by the commission, Johnson currently has 7% support, less than half what he needed to get a debate invite. 

Despite competing against two of the least-liked presidential candidates in American history, Gary Johnson has not caught on with voters, most likely due to his gaffe-prone media presence. 

He infamously asked "What is Aleppo?" when asked to comment about the city at the heart of the Syrian civil war and refugee crisis. Only a few weeks later, he struggled to name any foreign leader he respects. 

According to a New Yorker profile released in July, he also once asked an aide who Harriet Tubman was. 

According to FiveThirtyEight, Johnson will walk out of the November election with about 6.3% of the vote.