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Considered a bust. so the question has been, what will democrats do if they have an equally enormous field in 2020 and now we knew. the first debate will be held this june and eligibility will have something to do with polling. anyone getting 1% in at least three polls between now and the debate will get in. and already i count 11 candidates or potential candidates who meet that criteria. or if the candidates don't have those poll numbers, they can also prove they have grassroots support by getting 65,000 donors. but the real change is this, there will be no kids' table debate. the dnc says if...

That the 2020 democratic field will match incise what we saw from republicans in 2016. 16 candidates. that was more candidates than republicans knew what to do with, especially when it came to debates. there was just no way to get 16 candidates on the same stage that same time and have any kind of a mooningful dialogue between all of them so republicans came up with a sluz. they took all of the polls and figured out who the top ten candidates were and they went to one debate together, the main debate, the one in prime time, the one with the largest audience. they even stood them on stage accor...

Candidates on the main stage, they had four candidates on the kids' table debate, the under card. by the time they got to mid-january, the saddest little under card debate at all, only had three people at it. that was the kids table debate with carly fiorina, mike huckabee and rick santorum. by the eighth debate enough people dropped out of the race they were able to finally do a single event with seven candidates. that was still big enough, though, and enough of a pile-up, that is one they had a severe logistical confusion moment when it came to the task of how to get all seven of those candi...

Table debate, the under card. by the time they got to mid january, the saddest under card debate had three people at it. that was the kids table debate with carly and by the eighth, enough people dropped out to do a single event with seven candidates. that was still big enough, though, and enough of a pileup that that one is the one where they had a severe logistic confusion moment how to get all seven candidates on the stage. >> let's welcome the candidates for the republican conomination for president. lieutenant governor chris christie. [ applause

He's at least going to be on the main debate stage for the next republican debate. that does not appear to be the case for a candidate named rand paul. we've known for a while now that rand paul wasn't going to be a sure bet to make it onto the debate stage for the next republican debate, which is going to be thursday night, hosted by the fox business channel. fox both business and news, both those networks, they're notoriously woolly about their qualifying criteria for their debate. there was a little suspense as to whether rand paul would make their cutoff by placing in the top six in nation...