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gop presidential candidates gearing up for the first debate this wednesday on fox as a few candidates are vying for a few spots on the stage. alexandria hoff is live in studio with the latest. the candidates that have not qualified for the debate stage have until 48 hours before it starts to do so, there is still some time at the numbers are still in flux, here is rnc chair ronna mcdaniel on sunday morning futures . we are at seven the officially qualified with the small dollar donations to the pulling threshold in the pledge. fox news has independently confirmed rnc seven includes these five ramaswamy, desantis, burnham and scott.
let s take of the number for second choice gop nominee among primary voters, desantis dropped from 52 - 37. ramaswamy from 0 to 22% in mike pence from 16 - 11%. so what about those numbers. it is all vivek ramaswamy he is only one with any kind of positive momentum besides donald trump. you see to katie s point, all these other candidates are pulling support from ron desantis not from the front runner. whether it s vivek ramaswamy who has skyrocketed, still way way and second-place, he is only one with positive momentum and everyone else is dropping like a rock. mike: does that mean ramaswamy is going to happen, that to be stage. keisha, that would be the expectation but that s his first debate ever. he s good to be the target of a lot of attacks coming from both sides on the stage from all the other candidates and i would like to point out he is pulling
i want to support the nominee of the party and i do not expected to be donald trump. mike: for those candidates lowering the polls, how critical is it for them to be on the stage. this is the only shot that they re going to have of getting momentum and i don t see that it s likely, i think obviously with the former president counter programming this on a different platform, a lot of eyes are going to be over there, they need this moment and i m not sure, even if you catch the moment being back down 40 points and most of the pulling including new pulling today shows this is a one-person base. i think it s too late, too little and donald trump is could be the nominee enter nominee. mike: let s take a look at the fox poe, former president trump with 53% support a slight fluctuation from earlier but a massive lead, desantis at 16%, down from 22%, vivek ramaswamy
up, single digits mike pence, dickie haley, chris christie, how do you assess it at this stage. donald trump space is pretty solid, i believe he s going to be the nominee and i think that the movement in the polls especially with vivek ramaswamy having arises pulling from ron desantis not donald trump s loyal base. i think we seen over the past couple months with indictments, that is not changing his support in the polls it is bolstering, donald trump for years has said he is a victim and a martyr and with these indictments that is validating that narrative that he s been telling his face. if anything his support is more solid and there is very little wiggle room for anybody else. the fact that the desantis campaign to debate memo that they were going to target ramaswamy and not donald trump shows me that they re more worried about holding onto second place than anything else, ron desantis is in real jeopardy of becoming jeb bush 2.0.