NEW: Sources tell jonward11 that the DNC is likely to raise polling threshold for the November debate
The Democratic National Committee is looking to fine-tune the rules for upcoming debates starting in November, including increasing the threshold needed to qualify for the event, according to sources familiar with the issue.
What’s not clear — and seems to be unsettled still — is how high that number will go. Even if it went up only 2 points to 4 percent, it would put major stress on candidates like Beto O’Rourke and Sen. Cory Booker. Neither has received more than 3 percent in any qualifying voter survey yet. Other candidates, like Sen. Amy Klobuchar and former Housing and Urban Development Secretary Julián Castro, have hit 4 percent only once so far.
But many candidates have complained that this metric, which was intended to “give the grassroots a bigger voice than ever before,” according to the DNC, has actually just caused their campaigns to waste money. Steyer has also spent over $7 million on TV ads to raise his name identification, key to climbing in the polls, and he now has a ticket to the debate stage in Houston.
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