to meet these new requirements. jacqui good evening. evening trace. there were a handful of gop contenders that didn t qualify for last night s debate rnc chair woman ron a mcdaniels says there s still time to land a spot on stage five weeks from now at the reagan library. listen. i said you have a chance to make it if you continue to go and get to 3%, that s still there. so i m not going to recommend any of them drop out but i will say all of them will be better than joe biden, even those who didn t make the stage. . reporter: so there s still a chance. but in order to get an invite, candidates must have 50,000 unique donors up from 40 thousand from the first debate and reach 3% in two national polls or 3% in one national poll and at least 3% from a poll from an early voting state such as iowa, new hampshire or south carolina. that requirement up from 1% from the first debate. currently six of the candidates you saw last night, florida governor ron desantis, biotech
is an interesting dynamic because you have former members of donald trump a s cabinet, the former un ambassador nikki haley, mike pence, his former vice president, and then you have the likes of newjersey governor chris christie, who plans to go directly on the attack against donald trump, so it will be interesting to see how candidates differentiate themselves and how far they go to try to balance that idea of not alienating donald trump might s base, but trying tojoin of not alienating donald trump might s base, but trying to join a more conservative republicans, more independence you can vote for them. it has been tough for anyone to break through. we see the florida governor, ron desantis, his poll numbers are sliding, just as vivek ramaswamy s as numbers arise. he is a biotech entrepreneur. he is someone who has modelled himself on donald trump. thank you for that.
there s nobody that wants us to be looking backwards more than the democrats and the media. they would love to have us have to relit gate all this stuff from 2020, 2021. because what does that do? that lets biden sit in his basement again. reporter: so according to the new york times, the main super pac desantis has advised the florida governor to, quote, take a sledge hammer to vivek ramaswamy on the debate stage wednesday, something the biotech entrepreneur is already using to raise campaign cash. ramaswamy also riding a signify ant poll bump deerflying his support in a recent poll that also shows desantis at a new low. this weekend former new jersey governor chris christie and ramaswamy will get their turn in atlanta. the iowa state fair winds down this weekend and will be visited by businessman perry johnson and former congressman will heard. while the heavy hitters will be in atlanta, preparations are
they also must be pulling at 1% or greater in three national surveys, or to national and one early states poll. and, this is a big and, they must sign a loyalty pledge to the republican party, vowing to support the parties eventual nominee, whomever that may be. that they will not participate in any non-rnc sanctions debates. right now, the candidates qualified for the debates are the former president, donald trump, florida governor, ron desantis, the biotech entrepreneur, effect of a swami, the north carolina governor and former you invested, nikki haley. the south carolina senator, tim scott, former new jersey governor, chris christie, and the north dakota governor, doug burgum. notably still missing is the former vice president, mike pence. it s still not entirely clear, also, whether donald trump, the front runner, it s going to participate in the debate. he said he won t. my next guest says it won t matter. frank luntz tweeted quote, millions will be watching trump or know trump.