Gabbard and Klobuchar hit debate polling thresholds

[question everything]

Hawaii Rep. Tulsi Gabbard has qualified for the November Democratic presidential debate and Minnesota Sen. Amy Klobuchar has made the December debate after the release of a new Iowa poll, which also featured Elizabeth Warren, Pete Buttigieg, Bernie Sanders and Joe Biden bunched within 5 points of each other at the top of the field.

Klobuchar got 5 percent support in the Iowa survey from Quinnipiac University released on Wednesday. She previously hit at least 4 percent support in three other polls approved by the Democratic National Committee, according to POLITICO’s tracking, and she has accrued over 200,000 individual donors, the other threshold to make the December debate stage. She had previously qualified for the November debate.

Gabbard made the November stage by getting 3 percent in the new Quinnipiac poll, having previously hit that mark in three other DNC-approved polls, according to POLITICO’s tracking. Gabbard has also accrued the 165,000 donors necessary to qualify for the November debate.

Gabbard will join nine other candidates on the November stage: Joe Biden, Cory Booker, Buttigieg, Kamala Harris, Klobuchar, Sanders, Tom Steyer, Warren and Andrew Yang.

So far, six candidates — Biden, Buttigieg, Harris, Klobuchar, Sanders and Warren — have qualified for the December debate, which will be co-hosted by POLITICO and PBS.

https://www.politico.com/news/2019/11/06/gabbard-klobuchar-qualify-debate-066900

[doc03]

1. I like Klobuchar but Gabbard not so much. nt

[Blue Owl]

2. Amy YAY; Tulsi NAY

n/t

[applegrove]

3. I wonder if Gabbard will flip back to being for impeachment again. N/T

[Eric J in MN]

6. Tulsi Gabbard voted for the impeachment inquiry. NT

NT

[applegrove]

8. So she's already flipped back?

[Eric J in MN]

11. She never flipped away from impeachment.

Tulsi Gabbard said she thinks the impeachment process isn’t transparent enough, and her critics spun that into opposition to impeachment.

[Katalino]

12. She lied about it not being transparent

Don't spread the fake GOP meme that they're not being allowed to participate in the process.

[Eric J in MN]

14. I disagree with Tulsi Gabbard.

I wrote her position, not mine.

[applegrove]

18. Okay. It's pretty damned transparent though so she's nuts on that too.

[Devil Child]

4. Fantastic news!

[trueblue2007]

5. not in my opinion

[Raine]

7. Great news

congrats to both of them!!

[Cha]

9. Will gabbard be running against Hillary

at the debate like she does on tucker's fox show?

Link to tweet

[question everything]

16. I am sure that a moderator will ask her about the "disagreement" with Hillary

[Katalino]

10. I don't know why this is news

My gramma could hit those thresholds.
At one point someone will get 3% in a poll due to margin of error.

[Funtatlaguy]

13. They are way too low. Should be at least 5%.

[evertonfc]

15. 3 candidates on stage

Th ese debates are awful. Get real. Biden, Bernie and Warren are our choices. Like it or not.

[nini]

17. oh ok.. let's not let the process play out months before a vote is cast

If you say so.