Pence Finally Qualifies For 1st Presidential Debate
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The 8th GOP candidate has qualified for the first GOP debate.
After surpassing 40,000 donors Mike Pence has finally qualified.
The Washington Examiner reported:
Former Vice President Mike Pence has attained the qualifications to attend the first primary debate for the 2024 GOP presidential nomination.
Pence’s team announced on Monday that his campaign had surpassed 40,000 individual donors, Politico reported. That number is one of the Republican National Committee’s requirements to attend the debate on Aug 23 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. The former vice president also reached the other needed qualifications, which include polling at least 1% nationally. He is the eighth candidate to qualify, and he’s possibly the last.
Pence’s qualification could see him face off against his former boss for the first time since their falling out if former President Donald Trump agrees to attend.
The previous seven GOP candidates who have reached the necessary conditions to appear on the stage in Milwaukee are Trump, Gov. Ron DeSantis (R-FL), entrepreneur Vivek Ramaswamy, former United Nations Ambassador Nikki Haley, Sen. Tim Scott (R-SC), former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, and Gov. Doug Burgum (R-ND).
Pence could be the last candidate to qualify.
Pence may be the last candidate to qualify for the Aug. 23 showdown. Former Arkansas Gov. Asa Hutchinson has hit the polling threshold but is behind in donors. And Miami Mayor Francis Suarez and businessperson Perry Johnson both said recently they’ve hit the donor threshold, but neither are close to the polling threshold.
Pence seems likely to qualify for the second GOP debate, which will take place on Sept. 27. The Republican National Committee recently announced the new rules to be on stage, which requires candidates having 50,000 unique donors and hitting 3 percent in a few polls.
Besides Pence, all seven of the other candidates who have qualified for the first debate have already hit the new donor threshold, and Pence’s team has expressed confidence he’ll clear that nominally higher bar. Pence regularly hits 3 percent in publicly released polling.
No candidate has officially met the polling threshold for the second debate yet, according to POLITICO’s analysis, because there has not yet been enough polls released that meet the RNC’s methodological requirements for the second debate.
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