then four hours later at 8:00 a.m., it s quinnipiac university, they re going to release their new poll. both of those polls qualify in terms of candidates making it into the debate. they could make for a totally different debate experience depending on what they find. because tom steyer has enough donors already. he s only one poll shy of qualifying. if he gets 2% in either of those polls tomorrow, tom steyer will be in. congresswoman tulsi gabbard also has enough donors, but hess she is two polls short of qualifying. so if she gets 2% in both of those polls tomorrow morning she too will qualify. if either tom steyer gets in or tulsi gabbard gets in, the debate will then become a two-night affair with five or six candidates on each of the two nights. if neither of them gets in, all the debate is going to happen on one night. so like i said, the big reveal, but we can see it coming. tomorrow morning s going to be very fun. we ll be right back. beep goes off ]
but will any of the other candidates make it by tomorrow s deadline? turns out to be a very good question, one that is going to get settled in dramatic fashion tomorrow morning. because we now know that there are two more polls, each of which does count toward qualifying for that debate, two more polls that are both coming out tomorrow morning basically right at the deadline. as the very last thing that s going to happen before these candidates either have to fish or cut bait. so the first one is 4:00 in the morning tomorrow. 4:00 a.m. eastern time. usa today and suffolk university, they re going to release their new poll. then four hours later at 8:00 a.m., it s quinnipiac university, they re going to release their new poll. both of those polls qualify in terms of candidates making it into the debate. they could make for a totally different debate experience depending on what they find. tom steyer has enough donations already. if he gets 2% in either of those polls tomorrow, stop st
you, staring you down in the face even when joe biden was looking down and not engaging. it would be. i guess the one thing the trump folks know is it s very different when you are opposing trump no matter what other previous debate experience you have had, it s very disorienting when someone is sitting up there telling you left is right and right is left and saying all kind of things that are pretty harsh. so even the best debater might not necessarily fair well in that experience. and how are they viewing the busing from the democratic party? i think any of these discussio discussions they think help them with their support. and then there was the discussion of butsing, the discussion of decriminalizing border crossings.
biden and sanders at center stage have both debated in presidential debates extensively. outside of them the debate experience level falls off significantly. for example, one of the conversations i have been having with some of these campaign and advisers about what they saw last night is the moderators weren t pushing these candidates into conflict. if you want to fight, you ve got to pick that fight yourself. if that still holds true tonight, and i m certainly not privy to any of the questions or how we re setting this up, candidates are adjusting their strategies ever so slightly to be prepared for the fact if they want to mix it up, punch up or afraid somebody will be punching up at you, you know it s less likely to come from lester holt than someone like eric swalwell at the edges trying to make their moment. john heilemann, somebody who knows about punching up, down, sideways, written a few good books about it, what do you have to say? i believe you just called me punchy, nic
justice. plus joe biden set to take the stage with more debate experience than his opponents. we ll have a look at how his past performances may prepare him for tonight.