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Fund-raising quarter closed it just wasn't there. and if we didn't see a path to winning, there was no other reason to stay in. so i want to narrow this field and let others have their shot so we can get a nominee who can beat donald trump. >> as you talk about the fund-raising but also the people on that debate stage. i just went through some of those numbers. together democrats raised twice what trump individually raised in this quarter. but he brought in, you know, more than twice what any individual democrat has. so it's broken up among a lot of different people. do more democrats need to ...

>> so then there are tie-breaker scenarios for candidates that might -- if 22 meet the threshold, then what's the tiebreaker? >> then we will look at -- first of all, if you -- there are two thresholds for the viewers. there is a polling threshold of 1%, or you have gotten 65,000 grassroots donor, including at least 200 from 20 states. that's the 1971 campaign finance laws about public financing and we modernized them. we didn't just pull that out of thin air. >> right. >> and so those are the two criteria. if somebody has reached both, they will make the debate stage. and 14 out of the 20 tha...

Scenarios for candidates that might -- if 22 meet the threshold, then what's the tiebreaker? >> then we will look at -- first of all, if you -- there are two thresholds for the viewers. there is a polling threshold of 1%, or you have gotten 65,000 grassroots donor, including at least 200 from 20 states. that's the 1971 campaign finance laws about public financing and we modernized them. we didn't just pull that out of thin air. >> right. >> and so those are the two criteria. if somebody has reached both, they will make the debate stage. and 14 out of the 20 that you saw the last two nights did...

In lordstown, a job that his father and grandfather held and barack obama saved the auto industry and donald trump promised that there would be no plant closures and there are, and we say we're on your side. voters want to know who's got their back on the issues that matter most, and that's the democratic party. >> i want to talk a little bit about the sort of logistics here because they're fascinating and obviously the dnc was very transparent, months ago said look, this is a threshold, and there's going to be 20 slots and the people that made that threshold they were on the stage. there's an...

Industry and donald trump promised that there would be no plant closures and there are, and we say we're on your side. voters want to know whose got their back on the issues that matter most, and that's the democratic party. >> i want that talk about the logistics here, because they're fascinating. >> yeah. >> and the dnc was very transparent. months ago said look this is a threshold. there are going to be 20 slots. the people who made the threshold are on the stage. there is another debate in july and it's the exact same threshold. is that also capped at 20? >> that's correct. >> so there are...