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Youll hear me say often beware of investing too much in the early polls, but for the next month, for the 2020 democrats they do matter. polling is just one of two qualifications to make the first pair of presidential debates. the other is how many donors can you get in the democratic national committee says candidates need to show 65,000 unique contributors to qualify for the debate stage. bernie sanders and joe biden have easily cleared both hurdles but so have other names like andrew young. st...

Helps democrats. >> sandra: who is your best chance at beating donald trump? >> i think we have a great chance with all of these folks. i think youll have a robust debate starting in june with 12 debates that the dnc will be holding. democrats have a large field. thats fantastic for us. that means more people talking about democratic issues. who knows what will happen? it is too early to tell. i dont think any of us thought that donald trump would be president in 2015. and so i think that the am...

Show here because they had this sort of adults table, kids table. the sort of main debate and almost made the debate division between their two different debate stages that they had in 2016 when they had a lot of candidates. how is your idea of successive debate nights different than that difficult process that the republicans went through in 2016? >> well, there is no undercard. that is the biggest difference. if we have -- lets just use a round number, an even number. say there are 16 people w...

Democrats say they will divide the candidates randomly between the two nights. random drawings, that will be fun and this is interesting and substantive in terms of democratic party priorities to qualify for making it onto the debate stage at all, for being one of the 20, right? the threshold for inclusion is interesting. it has two components. first is that you got to hit a polling threshold in three polls that are either national or in iowa, new hampshire, south carolina or nevada. and youve g...

Being one of the 20, right, the threshold for inclusion is interesting. it has two components. first is that youve got to hit a polling threshold in three polls that are either national or in iowa, new hampshire, south carolina or nevada. and youve got to hit a grassroots fund-raising threshold. this is new and interesting. this is what theyre telling us about the grassroots fund-raising method that you have to display basically. you have to show that you can do this in order to make it on to th...

This guy doesnt sound intriguing? >> i think even if the polling threshold for presidential debates were lowered such that a party like gary johnson -- remember last time that was 15%. gary johnson couldnt get there. even if they lowered that threshold, the candidate would have to try to match the kind of spending, the political action committees outside groups are throwing money at these traditional democratic and republican candidates. they still would have to match the kind of organization st...

David duke is running for senate in louisiana with donald tmp as his running mate. >> the only man the media hate morse than donald trump is me. they hate trump and me because they oppose the massive immigration that will destroy america. weve got to protect american jobs and industry. we defend our heritage. trump even says we should say merry christmas instead of the pc garbage. the media says he sounds like me. but you know what? we both simply sound like you. vote for trump for president. da...

Former klu klux klan leader david duke is running for senate in louisiana with donald trump as his running mate. >> the only man the media hate morse than donald trump is me. they hate trump and me because they oppose the massive immigration that will destroy america. weve got to protect american jobs and industry. we defend our heritage. trump even says we should say merry christmas instead of the pc garbage. the media says he sounds like me. but you know what? we both simply sound like you. vo...

Ted cruz and marco rubio locked in third place. all the other competitors including jeb bush are packed at the bottom of the field with 4% or lower. and polling at 2%. governor chris christie, at-risk of missing the main stage at tuesdays republican debate. christie appears to be under the polling threshold of 2.5% in the four most recent national posts yesterday. fox business will announce the final participants tonight. >> i do think the new hampshire poll, theyre going to have to give a lot o...

Base that offers programs for wounded service members. now back to "hardball"." welcome budge to the university of colorado, the spin room, what it is called, the third republican debate, the top of this hour. the candidates who didnt qualify for the late debate is the happy hour debate, included bobby jindal of louisiana, senator santorum, governor george chris christie and senator lindsey graham of south carolina, none of whom meet the required 3% polling threshold. during that debate, senat...