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Have seen to a top tier field. while the dnc acted in good faith, they have unfortunately the rules just really dont benefit candidates of color. cory booker is not a billionaire. he cannot go on air and spend tense of millions of dollars to raise our name i.d. we are running a grassroots campaign. unintendly they have narrowed the stage so you have to meet a certain polling threshold. at this time when john kerry was running he was at 4%. we are at 4% in some of the nonqualification polls. we a...

White. half in their 70s. one a billionaire. former hud secretary julian castro met the benchmark for the next debate but not the polling threshold. the deadline for which he has to do that is thursday of next week. these complaints are essentially unmerited. >> well, there is no question that the dnc will have to go back and look at the thresholds they have put in place for the next democratic primary. but my issue with how we do presidential elections is actually much deeper than any threshold...

He has not received any qualifying polls required to make the debate stage the good to see you. thank you for being with me again. >> good to be with you. >> talk to me about the wall youve hit. what has happened that has stopped you from getting the polling you need, getting on the debate stage as you need and raising the money you need? >> you know, i started this campaign off in january and i was building it from scratch, in not run for president before, obviously. and even though i have very...

Threshold. but in order to do that, what you see ahead is that we need the resources to marshal -- to get that polling to hit that polling threshold and basically to keep on going as a campaign. obviously these campaigns cost a lot of money and i made a decision early on not to take any kind of pac money, not to take federal lobbyist money, not to take money from big oil and gas executives. but to rely on the people. and so the call that i put out yesterday was for the support of the people to c...

Everybody from the last one plus the three. they have said theyll have 12 people up there for once for one crowded night. after this debate, the dnc says the next debate in november, they are raising the criteria to get in. what you see here is the average of all the national polls. what the dnc is saying. they are raising the polling threshold. you got to be hitting the polls or do 5% early. what that means is biden looks like hes good. warren, sanders, buttigieg,

Right, bernie sanders and elizabeth warren who are really on a different ideological side of the democratic party. >> and the pressure is really on some of these other candidates who made the debate stage tonight. but they may only be at 2%, 3% right now. theyve got to come up with something in order to continue their campaign. >> thats right. its important to remember for these candidates, wolf, its really a fight for survival tonight. obviously, the october debate has the same polling threshol...

For this debate on september 12th in texas. this is a look at who will participate. front-runners, biden, sanders, warr warren, harris, buttigieg. then booker, klobuchar, yeng and castro have all qualified. the higher price of entry for this particular debate. tom steyer, the billionaire, late entry into the race, he put millions of dollars in digital and television ads, trying to get his poll numbers up. poll from quinnipiac where he did not meet the threshold. as it stands right now, steyer on...

Happening there. you weathered hurricane maria, theyre not on a major debate and the devastation it left two stage? >> whats important to remember, years ago. too, obviously being on the dorian is approaching. you heard how unpredictable it debate stage gives candidates visibility. weve seen these very dramatic is. how are you, your friends and images in the first two debates family preparing right now? >> thank you, dana, for having changed the trajectory, thinking us here and for letting us ki...

Threshold. these three candidates had hit. donor threshold and these three candidates had hit some of the polling threshold. they had to be 2% in some polls plus the donor threshold. mary williamson needed three polls so she was out of it. gabbard steyer had to hit two polls. he hit one. the first one to come out today, biden in the lead, warren, sanders. what you dont see 2% or above, the names gabbard or steyer. by not hitting 2% in that poll, that basically eliminates tulsi gabbard from being...

Who dropped out. the ones in dark shade are candidates who had not coming into today qualified for the next debate in september. coming into today, only ten candidates had qualified. what that meant, they hit a doan why are threshold, raised donations from at least 130,000 people and critically they had hit the polling threshold. these candidates have done it. the suspense coming in to today, it was around these two candidates, tulsi gabbert and tom steyer, both hit the donor threshold. tom stey...