Those who did not meet the threshold for the first debate include: Montana Gov. Steve Bullock; former Alaska Sen. Mike Gravel; Miramar, Florida Mayor Wayne Messam; and Rep. Seth Moulton of Massachusetts.
I'm not going to watch this fiasco. If I do it will be on Youtube so I can skip the falsehoods and prevarications.
20 candidates ... this is going to be a farce of a “debate” show, but it ought to show which candidates the press has been ordered to take out. Make note of which candidates get puff-ball questions, and which ones get hostile questions.
I hope all the clowns who were left out of the car sue NBC and the DNC. Because that’s what they do.
Unbelievably (or maybe believably, if you’ve been following this closely), there is a discrepancy on how to calculate the 2 percent cutoff that the DNC will not address publicly.
The “top-tier” candidates polling at or above 2 percent, using their three best polls:
Joe Biden, Cory Booker, Pete Buttigieg, Julián Castro,
Kamala Harris, Amy Klobuchar, Beto O’Rourke,
Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren (all of whom crossed both the donor and polling threshold). If you use an average of all qualifying polls, as FiveThirtyEight did in their calculation, Casto falls into the lower-tier group.
The rest of the qualifiers, polling below that mark:
Tulsi Gabbard, Kirsten Gillibrand, Jay Inslee, Marianne Williamson and Andrew Yang (who crossed both thresholds).
Additionally: Michael Bennet, Bill de Blasio,
John Delaney, John Hickenlooper, Tim Ryan and Eric Swalwell (who only crossed the polling threshold).
So who is left out? Steve Bullock, Mike Gravel, Wayne Messam and Seth Moulton. There was a chance for an 11th-hour qualification for Bullock on Wednesday, but he didn’t break 1 percent in a Monmouth University poll in Nevada (more on that poll below). However, Bullock is demanding entry into the debate. His campaign sent a letter to DNC chief Tom Perez insisting he has crossed the polling threshold (this all hinges on the ruling surrounding an open-ended ABC News/Washington Post poll), I reported.
But the debate qualification tracking continues on: The July debates have the same qualification rules as the June debates, meaning candidates like Bullock still have a shot at making it to Detroit next month. And don’t forget about the stepped-up rules for the fall debates, either. Bullock’s team alluded to those in the video, and I’ve already seen social media ads for a few candidates explicitly driving to the increased 130,000 donor threshold.
The DNC is racist. They kept the mayor of Miramar, Fl out of the debate. Wayne Messam was a football player at FSU and is now mayor of Miramar.
However the image of Castro really exudes pure evil. There is something wrong with that guy. Having seen his stump speeches, Castro is one hateful SOB walking around with a chip on his shoulder and a stick up his ass. Pure hate and anger and resentment.
Don’t know how long they’re going to schedule that “debate” for, but two hours of political horse manure is more than most sane people can tolerate, and two hours divided by 20 clowns comes out to 6 minutes apiece. And that discounting time spent on introductions, questions, clarifications, quieting applause and the like.
If one of the doofuses left off had enough money, they could by commercial air time to greater effect.
They will all be fighting to be on the far left side of the stage.
Hoping Ami Horowitz manages to qualify for the debates.
Where’s Avenatti? the creepy porn lawyer is a perfect fit here ...
Who didn’t make it
Orange man and the 24 dwarfs...
I understand that the only debate restriction imposed on the socialist hopefuls is that they won’t be allowed to wear their water-squirting daisies on their lapels, but honking tricycle horns instead of speaking will still be permitted.
Commies, criminals, crazies, wannabes, dreamers and losers.
Sort of like the Manson Family on Ecstasy, Meth,, LSD, and Prozac, all at the same time.
