threshold. but in order to do that, what you see ahead is that we need the resources to marshal to get that polling to hit that polling threshold and basically to keep on going as a campaign. obviously these campaigns cost a lot of money and i made a decision early on not to take any kind of pac money, not to take federal lobbyist money, not to take money from big oil and gas executives. but to rely on the people. and so the call that i put out yesterday was for the support of the people to contribute their $5, $10, $15 are whatever they can give to keep this campaign going. i believe that if people have been tuned into the campaign, what they ve seen is that we ve consistently stood up for the most vulnerable people in our country and have lifted up voices and gone places that a lot of other candidates haven t. and i want to continue to do that.
everybody from the last one plus the three. they have said they ll have 12 people up there for once for one crowded night. after this debate, the dnc says the next debate in november, they are raising the criteria to get in. what you see here is the average of all the national polls. what the dnc is saying. they are raising the polling threshold. you got to be hitting the polls or do 5% early. what that means is biden looks like he s good. warren, sanders, buttigieg,
right, bernie sanders and elizabeth warren who are really on a different ideological side of the democratic party. and the pressure is really on some of these other candidates who made the debate stage tonight. but they may only be at 2%, 3% right now. they ve got to come up with something in order to continue their campaign. that s right. it s important to remember for these candidates, wolf, it s really a fight for survival tonight. obviously, the october debate has the same polling threshold to qualify as this debate tonight does. but when you look ahead to november, it s expected that the dnc is going to raise the polling threshold to 3%, 4%. so these candidates are going to be challenged tonight to start raising their profile, their polling to elevate a moment in november. some of these campaigns are running out of money rather quickly as well. everybody stick around, there s a lot of new news, including israel flattening the story that it s behind the
for this debate on september 12th in texas. this is a look at who will participate. front-runners, biden, sanders, warr warren, harris, buttigieg. then booker, klobuchar, yeng and castro have all qualified. the higher price of entry for this particular debate. tom steyer, the billionaire, late entry into the race, he put millions of dollars in digital and television ads, trying to get his poll numbers up. poll from quinnipiac where he did not meet the threshold. as it stands right now, steyer on the outside, looking in. also not on this list, very important to point out, sitting united states senator kirsten gillibrand, steve bullock. there are big names not breaking through that polling threshold and therefore will not be part of this debate which, as it stands now, will only be one night. polls showing, confirming biden ahead in the pack.
happening there. you weathered hurricane maria, they re not on a major debate and the devastation it left two stage? what s important to remember, years ago. too, obviously being on the dorian is approaching. you heard how unpredictable it debate stage gives candidates visibility. we ve seen these very dramatic is. how are you, your friends and images in the first two debates family preparing right now? thank you, dana, for having changed the trajectory, thinking us here and for letting us kind back to the kamala/biden moment of express and focus on what s in the first debate particularly happening here. right now, i m in san juan, and as a point where senator harris the sun is still out. there s no wind. shined and gained traction for her race, but a key thing to but the city is kind of a ghost town right now, because everyone remember is that there is a is really taking this seriously. debate after the september debate. it comes in october. two years ago, we had a what s importan