Posted on 03/06/2020 1:48:26 PM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
The Democratic National Committee has ratcheted up the threshold to qualify for its next presidential debate, requiring candidates to have picked up at least 20% of convention delegates allocated in state primary contests.
The new rules announced Friday for the March 15 debate in Arizona will allow former Vice President Joe Biden and Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders to participate but will likely exclude Hawaii Rep. Tulsi Gabbard.
Gabbard has struggled to attract support in the contest and has picked up only two delegates — from the U.S. territory of American Samoa, where she was born. By comparison, Biden has more than 650 delegates, while Sanders has over 570.
The DNC’s new rules require a candidate to meet the delegate threshold by March 15 and pick up more delegates in elections to be held Tuesday in a handful of states, including delegate-rich Michigan.
The party said it will calculate the delegates awarded by adding together those allocated in counts by The Associated Press or CNN to all candidates, including those who were awarded delegates in earlier states but have since dropped out of the race.
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For the record; I do NOT rule out Gabbard.
who wouldn’t want to see Tulsi kick some old geezer ass
[Warren] Sexist dastards!!!! [/Warren]
Boy if Rs did this WOW we HATE women!!!
dem women voters are freaking morons!
The DNC war on women continues.
They should rule her out—Its between Biden and Bernie Now. The people need to see the two old men fight it out. She would be a distraction.
They should rule her out—Its between Biden and Bernie Now. The people need to see the two old men fight it out. She would be a distraction.
Is she still in the race? Asking for Mike Bloomberg
Yesh, for the record she’s a big lib. But she sure is easy on these old eyes.
In retrospect, I bet Bloomberg now wishes they had not changed the rules for qualifying for the debates to let him in.
I bet the powers that be are afraid of what Tulsi might say in a debate, since she’s in a position now where she has nothing to lose.
The feminist types should rally around Tulsi since all the other women candidates are gone. But I doubt they will.
Gabbard is way more transparent than even the Beatnik, Soviet Burn.
https://mobile.twitter.com/hashtag/LetTulsiDebate?src=hashtag_click
Let Tulsi debate
20%. So democratic.
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Tulsi = Great eye candy + rotten ideas
If Gabbard were black or Hispanic woman with 2 delegates u can bet she
would be included in the debates. If we’re her I’d run as an Independent.
She is far left liberal.
So the Democrats don’t want a female president?
Wow, I didn’t know they were so sexist.
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