spoke to beto s campaign and i m told that he is 100% not running for senate, period, because he thinks that he is the best candidate in this 2020 field to win texas and also that frankly if president trump is able to win texas again next year by nine points then a democrat is not going to be able to beat john cornyn in that environment. sew feels that he is really the best candidates to take texas for the democrats and the nomination and then to win in november. the september and october qualifications for the next set of debates require the candidate to not only meet a fund-raising threshold but also a polling threshold, as you know. so some of these candidates may meet the fund-raising threshold, but there s some question about whether or not they re going to meet that polling threshold or not. so i think that that depending on how that goes we definitely are going to see a fitting of that. and we haven t seen that much movement in terms of the polling
afternoon at the famous des moines register soap box. it s where politicians stand on an actual soap box and give their speech. the governor steve bullock from montana will be speaking here. so even though the polls give a sense of where the race is right now, iowa front-runners are often fleeting. howard dean was leading this back in the 2004 campaign. hillary clinton was leading it in the 2008 campaign. so it certainly there s at least six more months. kate, another headline out of this poll, andrew yang and tom steyer. andrew yang has qualified for the september debate stage because he did reach the polling threshold. tom steyer is one poll away from meeting that on the threshold. he still needs to get some donors. so the debate stage in september could still be a little more crowded than some democrats had hoped. and let s be honest. a rainy day at the iowa state fair is still better than no day at the iowa state fair. great to see you. they still have pork chops
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i think detroit is actually a much stronger showing for the former vice president, particularly that one exchange he had with senator gillibrand. i think other folks that have the potential to continue to have that breakout moment are including gillibrand minus the exchange she had with senator biden. i think you also saw the likes of mario williamson make her points very well. but it s all about senator elizabeth warren and senator bernie sanders. i put this question, this is the second point i ll make quickly, i put this question in detroit to democratic national committee chairman tom perez. i asked him, you know, when is this going to dwindlehe? said the threshold is a bit more difficult for the candidates. that s because the polling threshold increases. i think you could see the lower tier candidates drop out. what happens next in terms of who is going to make the cut here? is there someone who really wants to make the cut that could potentially take away from
forward to the next debate in houston. we know at least one more person will be there because the threshold has gotten a lot harder for some of these candidates. what have you learned about who else is joining that stage, ali? well you mentioned the threshold. when you put it up to at least 2% polling and 130,000 donors you re effectively doubling the things these candidates need in order to make the debate stage. it threatens to have the number of people who make the stage and can make their pitch to a national audience. we reported first this morning amy klobuchar has met the 130,000 donor threshold. she had already met the polling threshold. she is now the eighth candidate who is going to be on that stage. the really interesting thing about amy klobuchar is the way in which she was on the debate stage this past week in detroit she didn t attack many of her other candidates. that is something that kind of made it hard for her to have one of those pop out moments because we see the