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Correct. There shld be some clear threshold. But it’s way too low with this many candidates. There are really five candidates at this point: Biden, Sanders, Warren, Harris, Buttigieg.
2/ And I say this w no disrespect to the excluded. Beto or Booker or Gillibrand et al. But for now they clearly lack substantial support. Also, maybe the metric shld be a bit looser and bring in 8 or 10. But more than that is not fair to voters.
3/ If you’re a elected official with access to nontrivial amounts of money, the status of elected official and you’ve been campaigning for months and you’re literally polling zero you just don’t have any standing to demand to be in a debate.
4/ Perhaps you have the five real candidates debate and the rest get to compete in that walk on night at the Apollo format and just see how it goes. Tracey can play the clown who hussles them off if they flop.
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