republican primary debate number in the books, not all eyes are moving to the second contest slated for september 22nd at the reagan national library. fox business will handle that one, we saw eight contenders wednesday night, but the party can get a little bit more exclusive next month, the rnc has tightened the qualification standards. doug burgum who both made the cut barely at the last minute for asa hutchinson. they could be a risk this time. they re not meeting the polling threshold, and some people say the more the merrier, because we want to hear from all of these candidates, but this was the message that they had for those that might not make the stage. if you continue to go and get to 3%, that is still there, i m not gonna recommend all of them drop out, but i will say all of them will be better than jill biden, even those who did not make the stage. all right, so where do you think that this field types
we gave that to them. we did the credentialing for people coming into the audience and the criteria, right? the 1% polling threshold and 40,000 small dollar donors but fox came up with the format. brian: what s going to be the will format for fox business in september. 3% polling. we are going to continue to go up in the polling i think for every debate and 50,000 small dollar donors. brian: suarez, will hurd and jerry johnson didn t make the first debate do you recommend they drop out. when i called all of them saying they didn t meet the criteria we administered it without bias. we are a rule of law party. you have a chance do make if you go and get 3% that s still there i m not going to recommend any of them drop out. but i will say all of them would be better than joe biden, even those who didn t make the stage. brian: i was shocked how aggressive mike pence was. i thought he did strong. vivek ramaswamy is the guy people are talking about. nikki haleyens performance was e
qualified, we re at seven right now that have officially qualified with the small dollar donations, with the polling threshold and the pledge and then we ve got some on the cusp. so, we re going to be looking at polls the next few days, there are three or four waiting for 1 % in one more national poll to make that debate stage. maria: you ve got great diversity. women, african americans, really across-the-board. we just heard from vivek ramaswamy last week. larry elder perhaps making the debate stage. tell me about the lineup this year and how that s different from what you ve seen in past? you know the republican party represents the diversity of america, despite what the mainstream media says, you look at what we ve done in congress, with the many candidates we ve elected and our debate stage reflects that tim scott, nikki haley, mayor suarez , vivek, larry elder potentially. this is the most diverse debated stage we ve ever had as a party but that s what we re seeing as a party as
trump s plans tell cnn that he has basically made up his mind, and he does not plan to be there. instead, he is expected to sit for an interview with tucker carlson that night, snubbing the network that is hosting the debate and fired tucker carlson. it would not only be a snub to fox news, but also to the republican national committee, which is holding the debate. the chairwoman ronna mcdaniel personally appealed to trump to come. fox executives did too. they went to his golf club at bedminster to lobby him to go. so far we do know who will be there. eight candidates have met the rnc s polling and donor requirements to qualify for that stage. and we should have a good idea by monday night at this hour who is officially in and who is officially out. that is by the time the gop candidates must deliver their signed loyalty pledges to support whoever it is as the eventual nominee. we should note mike pence s campaign says he signed it today. our first guest says he has just met the pollin
have is high flavor ability. kate, i feel like we need to which is ter. as you know, as a veteran of campaign events, that is the hardest of reporting jobs, is to whisper report when people are so closely behind you. she did an amazing job. eva did a great job. please talk louder. another candidate on the trail today, i think, speaking in full voice is former congressman will hurd. he will speak with voters at the iowa state fair. congressman hurd joins you now. nice to see you. i saw you celebrating yesterday that you had reached the 40,000 donor threshold which you need to cross to get in next week s first republican presidential debate. you are not yet, i believe, at the polling threshold, the latest fox news national poll has you, you know, not even at 1%, which is frankly no change since june. so how do you get to 1% in three polls by next week? sure. well, john, thanks for having me on and i won t whisper.