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They can manage it or risk being left out of the next round of debates as the threshold to qualify increases significantly. ginning us now is cnns phil mattingly. phil, as were looking forward to tonight, each candidate has a different goal but also probably a different standard for success. what should we expect? >> yeah, no question about it. look, each candidate and campaign is keenly aware of what happened after the last debate when there was a noticeable bump in numbers for specific candida...

Human right and the function of a sane healthcare system is not to make sure insurance companies and drug companies make tens of billions of dollars in profits. >> front and center tonight will be how to respond to donald trump in his feud with elijah cummings on accusations of racism. mayor pete buttigieg is ready. >> im not scared of this president. hes working on season 7 of celebrity apprentice when i was driving armored vehicles in afghanistan. im not afraid to take them on. >> the threshol...

Exceptions, candidates polling under 10% at the field at this point in the race have essentially no chance of winning the nomination. thats a vast majority of the field. are 20 people on that debate stage this week helping your eventual nominee or wasting time and precious resources in taking down donald trump? >> we learned the mistakes from 2016 and we want ab to say inclusive as possible. we are giving candidates two debates to make an impression. we understand polling isnt always reliable, b...

We know the stakes, the requirements for coming back in september have essentially doubled, a 2% showing in the poll. that might not sound like much but its a monumental hurdle for most of them. >> you can still stay in the race, you just wont be in the debate. if somehow you have a lot of cash, you can stay in. >> tom steyer spending a million dollars in social media trying to get people to donate because he runs the risk of never entering the debate stage unless he can reach the threshold. >> ...

Think a 2% threshold is a pretty low threshold, but at the same time we want to make sure youre making progress in your campaign. >> some of the progress begins tonight on the debate stage. thank you so much for being here. >> thanks for having me. >> coming up for us, the tsa is launching an investigation into some of its officers after a disturbing and racist splay is shown at miami international airport. well have that for you next. bo? ill take aleve. aleve. proven better on pain.

Keenly aware they wont meet the threshold for the next debate. they know if they want to have the money to keep their campaigns going, they need a moment tonight. how theyre going to try to get into that moment will certainly be interesting to watch. >> thank you so much. so lets discuss more. here with me now is former democratic mayor of tallahassee, andrew gillum and andrea rosen and angela ray. all three cnn political commentators. lets have some fun. its game day. lets play some games. ange...

At what do they have to accomplish to get us past the next threshold, and so you look at somebody like pete buttigieg, whos sort of number five in this tier. he doesnt have to attack anyone. hes got the money to go on for the next five, six months. what he has to do is make people believe in him, and i think that thats the challenge these guys, and i think at this stage, you know, its too easy for pundits to talk about this as progressives versus pragmatics, i think that what people want is some...

Zero. will they take wild shots at the front-runners tonight? >> i think you are going to have to see some hail marys tonight. >> like swalwell last time? >> like swalwell. hopefully not that awkward, but youll see folks like tim ryan, john delaney, theyre going to have to really get out there tonight and show why theyre in this race, why they deserve to be on that third debate stage, because of course, chris we know that the threshold requirements for the third debate have doubled over the thre...

To try to find the trick. at september at the next debate we wont see some of the one percenters because the threshold to be in is higher. theyre under pressure to have something to happen. bernie has got to get something going tonight. its important on amy klobuchar if heshes going to be the moderate to act like it. finally, i just say being an old detroiter who has done a lot of michigan politics. i ventured north last night and poked around. this lurch to the left with medicare for all, decri...

Trying to devied tivide the cou. youll hear candidates trying to use that to frame their electability argument. they will try to use this as energy to fuel their on campaign. >> thank you both very much appreciate it. in order to even qualify for the next round of debates and that will be in september about six weeks away, candidates must have 130,000 individual donors and reach 2% in at least four qualifying dnc approved polls which means as nbc political unit is writing, quote this debate is a...