Posted on 05/29/2019 11:25:43 AM PDT by detective
The Democratic National Committee is upping the ante for its second round of presidential primary debates, doubling the polling and grassroots fundraising requirements from its initial summer debates.
The parameters, announced Wednesday, are likely to help cull a crop of 24 candidates and, in the process, intensify scrutiny on Democratic Chairman Tom Perez and his pledge to give all candidates a chance to be heard.
The DNC’s outline for its September debate — the third of at least a dozen promised matchups during the 2020 nominating fight — decrees that candidates can participate only by reaching 2% in four approved polls released between June 28 and Aug. 28 while also collecting contributions from a minimum of 130,000 unique donors before Aug. 28. That donor list must include a minimum of 400 individuals in at least 20 states. The qualifications would remain the same for an October debate, though the party hasn’t set the deadline for measuring fundraising and polling.
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Lots of debates.
Not enough room in the clown car.
The Democrats are truly pathetic.
They are a bunch of mindless, lawless hyenas fighting over a rotten carcass. Obama’s election set a HORRIBLE precedent.
“They are a bunch of mindless, lawless hyenas fighting over a rotten carcass. Obama’s election set a HORRIBLE precedent”.
That’s right. When they chose POS BHO, they chose the lowest snake crap sucking scum they could find.
you must have more support and/or money than Tulsi Gabbard
it’s hilarious to watch them play out the charade to exclude her
It sounds to me, like they don’t want the sight of 20 some candidates stumbling around , whose only sound bite will be some denunciation of Trump. I think they want a more manageable number up on that debate stage.
rigged system to help creepy uncle joe biden
There! Fixed it.
They should shoot the excess clowns from the clown car by firing them out of a cannon.
Lots of cash gonna be thrown about.
I hope the C-suckers all have deep pockets and, I wonder how many people will get stiffed since the scumocRATS are infamous for that.
If that was televised, they might get some ratings!
Okay. Let’s see if Ami Horowitz can up his game and get into this debate.
amiforamerica.com
DNC Perez probably feels like William Shatner as Capt.Kirk in that infamous Tribbles episode.
We’ve learned many times that polls are often wrong. In fact, it’s become a regular feature of post-election coverage to remark how wrong, sometimes laughably, the polls were in the just-concluded election.
Yet the Democratic powers-that-be want to ostracize Democratic presidential hopefuls from appearing at further debates if their poll numbers happen to be one instead of two percent, well within the margin of error.
Think of how many angry Democratic candidates and their followers and donors there will be if such a plan goes into effect. In fact, if one of the ostracized candidates makes enough of an issue of it to appear in the national media, he or she will become the most beloved of Democrats — a victim — and probably go on to amass a huge following and become a major candidate.
*** you must have more support and/or money than Tulsi Gabbard
it’s hilarious to watch them play out the charade to exclude her ***
Tulsi is the elephant, er, donkey in the room. They sure want to invisibilize her.
Will perv Joe get to smell and grope his debate opponents ?
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