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You'll 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. steve bullock and andrew bennett have the not. 19 candidates have hit the polling threshold, but 6 of...

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 you'll have a robust debate starting in june with 12 debates that the dnc will be holding. democrats have a large field. that's fantastic for us. that means more people talking about democratic issues. who knows what will happen? it is too early to tell. i don't think any of us thought that donald trump would be president in 2015. and so i think that the american people will need to decide and we're excited to showcase these candidates. >> sandra: let ...

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 -- let's just use a round number, an even number. say there are 16 people who meet the threshold, and, by the way, some might meet the polling threshold, some might meet th...

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 you've got to hit a grass roots fundraising threshold. this is new and interesting. this is what they are t...

Being one of the 20, right, the threshold for inclusion is interesting. it has two components. first is that you've got to hit a polling threshold in three polls that are either national or in iowa, new hampshire, south carolina or nevada. and you've got to hit a grassroots fund-raising threshold. this is new and interesting. this is what they're 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 the stage. grassroots fund-raising method. candidates may qualify for the debate by demonstrating t...