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Fund-raising threshold. so that is not a high threshold. >> and when you talk about empowering the grassroots, having the candidates be this united front, especially for the party, are the democrats, though, being forced into spending money that really could have been used more effectively elsewhere? >> no. in order to spend money on the ground, in order to hire organizers, in order to talk to the american public, you need money to pay the organizers. you need money to go and criss-cross iowa, n...

To american farmers or is the new pictures showing north korea, maybe building a submarine capable of launching nuclear missiles could be the top story. what is the top story? all of the above. and the democrats race to replace donald trump as president. and on that front, joe biden maintains an 18-point lead among the crowded democratic primary field. according to a brand new usa today suffolk university poll just out this morning. 32% of democratic primary voters say they support bidens run, u...

Presidential debate. that debates going to be in mid-september. the deadline to make it on the stage tomorrow night. now here is where we stand because there is a lot of suspense in these final 24 hours and change. first of all youve got these ten candidates you see right here. these ten candidates have qualified for the debate. what does that mean? there were two criteria for this. you needed to raise $130,000 individual donations. all of these candidates cleared that threshold. the other thing...

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...

Win back places we lost. its the only governor remaining where you cant just give speeches, you actually have to do things. somebody off the coast. i do think this early on its missing something by not having my voice. but, you know, again, it is what it is and im less concerned about sort of complaining debate rules now than making sure im talking to voters. because we got a long way to go in this. >> there is a long way to go, but its interesting that you talk about being this voice. given thi...

Democratic national committee. thanks for joining us this morning. >> thanks for having me. >> what do you say to the candidates who think they are being unfairly kept off the debate stage? >> well, thats not true. we have been very clear about where we stand with the rules. 2%, let me remind you, is not a high threshold. we are asking for 2% in four or more polls. there have been 21 opportunities to make the debate stage. and let me remind you, no candidate polled under 2% in 40 years in the fa...

And also you gave ample time. but also a few candidates called attention to how much money they have had to spend on getting 130,000 individual donations. so in hindsight do you think the criteria was misguided? >> absolutely not. when it comes to grassroots fund-raising threshold, people need to remember that donald trump does fund raise and he does bring in large grassroots donations. whoever our democratic nominee is, they will need to compete with donald trump. we must empower the grassroots...

>> okay. a.b. stoddard, robert costa, all of these candidates cleared that threshold. karen deyoung, thank you. the other thing you need to do, the government tries to you have to hit 2% in four shore up its defenses against different polls that are election databases russians recognized by the dnc. 2% in four different polls. compromised in 2016. will it make a difference in 2020? all ten of these candidates have managed to do that. later, congress moves remember what weve seen in this forw...

Presidential candidate, some have dropped out. these are the only candidates who have met that qualifying threshold. there are ten of them. remember by the way, the maximum is ten. they would just need one night and one stage of one debate. the suspense that came in today and it still lingers to the degree. there is a change that could be another fold. there are two candidates that are on the bubble. this is gabbard and steyer. steyer di d it in two polls. there would be two more polls coming ou...

Warren and sanders. you dont see steyer and gabbard. just by not making 2% this one, thats probably it for tulsi gabbard. biden and warren and sanders at the top. you are looking at 2% above, you dont see tom steyer. he did not hit the 2% threshold, barring some unforeseen polls coming out. it looks like tom steyer will not be on stage. looks like it will be one night debate with all ten candidates together. >> how do the polls figure into the following debate? >> yes, thats interesting. i go ba...