Thanks to months of non-stop, $1 fundraising appeals, the campaign has, in some ways, come to resemble a pledge drive on PBS as Democratic presidential candidates have struggled to qualify for the debates
He added, “The only thing the debates are doing now is either disqualifying you or giving you more points to stay in the next debate.”
Daniel Squadron, a former New York state senator who directs the Future Now Fund, a national group working to elect Democrats in state races, said the debate fundraising rules at the presidential level “encourages candidates to soak up all of the resources and the attention — and does nothing to encourage candidates to help build something beyond themselves.”
This election cycle, one of the strategists said, “I don’t think down-ballot candidates have been a huge priority.” Presidential elections have long been marred by controversy surrounding debate criteria, and the DNC was unlikely to escape criticism no matter what it did. “If you can’t connect with the grassroots and engage the grassroots in multi-faceted, meaningful ways, you can’t win the presidency,” Perez said.
And then there's Andrew Yang, the once-little known entrepreneur whose rise in the primary took the field by surprise. He told POLITICO of the qualification thresholds recently that “I’m Asian, so I love tests.”He said knowing how many donors and polls he needs has been “incredibly helpful, because then you just know what to aim for."
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