Posted on 06/06/2019 1:20:39 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
A prominent governor running in the Democratic primary is at serious risk of getting shut out of the party’s first presidential debates — while a meditation guru and obscure tech entrepreneur take the stage for the most important event of the race so far.
That’s the state of play less than a week before the deadline to qualify for the debates on June 26-27 under the rules set by the Democratic National Committee.
Presidential hopefuls have until June 12 to cross one of two thresholds to qualify for the primary debates, and 13 of the 20 slots available are set. Montana Gov. Steve Bullock is currently out, one of the foremost candidates in danger of missing the stage. His camp blasted what it called the DNC's eleventh-hour "unmasking" of "arbitrary" polling rules, but the DNC said the Bullock campaign has been aware of the criteria for months.
Bullock’s status isn’t the only question remaining in the final week of qualifying, but the latest update comes after the Democratic National Committee provided POLITICO with additional guidance about its polling criteria — the first time the party committee has publicly addressed questions surrounding the previously announced guidelines.
The DNC declined to comment, as it has done in the past, on the qualifications for any individual candidate. POLITICO’s analysis for who has (and has not) qualified for the debate is based off public polling and public comments from the campaigns about their donor counts.
But if Bullock does manage to qualify before next Wednesday’s deadline, it could throw the status of other second-tier candidates into doubt, unleashing a complicated set of DNC-written tiebreaker rules that could leave another currently officeholder high and dry.
(Excerpt) Read more at politico.com ...
“The 13 candidates who can book their tickets include the race’s top figures:
Joe Biden
Bernie Sanders
Pete Buttigieg
Elizabeth Warren
Kamala Harris
Beto O’Rourke
Cory Booker
Amy Klobuchar
and Julián Castro are the top-polling candidates; following a random drawing, they will be split across the two nights, with five on one night and four on the other”
But also meeting both the polling and fundraising thresholds are:
Tulsi Gabbard
Jay Inslee
Marianne Williamson, best known for authoring spiritual, self-help books, and Andrew Yang
It’s not a proper ‘RAT show unless Vermin Supreme and “Rent Too Damn High!” guy participate.
Where is chickenlooper? What a loser!
They need Stacy Abrams, Al Sharpton, Al Green, Elijah Cummings, Keith Ellison and Tom Perez to enter the race.
No Ben Gleib , once host of Idiotest , and stand up comedian.
No Ami Horowitz , the most conservative announced.
Moe, Larry and Curly are in the second debate but it is rumored that Shemp is not fundraising well enough.
de blasé is missing from the list.
Fox News should take the leftovers and have a debate at the same time or right after the debate with the others. Do it on both nights to give the others exposure. A divided Democrat Party is a good Democrat party.
Can I still sign up?
So is SwalloWell who is blasting through the polls at an astonishing 0.0%
One isn’t even a dimrat. Sanders only becomes one every election cycle.
Man, this is going to be fun to watch.
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