Everything you wanted to know about SC debate tickets. Spoiler alert: most tickets were free.

[TwilightZone]

And those that were being "sold" were actually intended for sponsors of the debate and included multiple events.

https://www.truthorfiction.com/were-demdebate-tickets-sold-for-1750-to-3200/

Edited to add link to brooklynite's excellent ticket breakdown here:

https://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1287&pid=587005

[still_one]

1. Damn, I overpaid for that 45,000 dollar ticket I bought through ebay

[brooklynite]

2. See my breakdown here:

https://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1287&pid=587005

[TwilightZone]

5. Perfect, thank you.

[4139]

3. Your link doesn't say free! Where do you see most tickets free??

[TwilightZone]

7. You didn't look very hard.

"The campaigns of participating candidates will have a set number of free tickets to distribute to their supporters."

"Can attest to this — the @DNC has provided @swingleft with tickets to several presidential debates for our volunteer leaders in the area. These are folks who knock doors, make calls, and write letters to voters year round.

Didn’t cost us a dime! 🤷🏻?♀️ https://t.co/QZI3zvQEI6"

"The South Carolina Democratic Party said that their group had 400 tickets to distribute, and that they had sold no individual tickets:

Out of the nearly 400 tickets that we were able to allocate for this evenings debate, we welcomed hundreds of activists, county party leaders, community leaders, State Representatives, State Senators, candidates, & elected officials from every level of government in SC at no cost"

[PatSeg]

4. Thank you!

[Cha]

6. Oh shoots.. that knocks down a big talking point

[BootinUp]

14. 2 more will spring up. Lol. Nt

[TwilightZone]

10. Read the whole thing, not just the conclusion.

The conclusion was that "some" tickets were available for purchase, which is technically true, though they were intended for sponsors and included events other than the debate.

The assertion that all tickets were $1750 and up, which many, many people are repeating as a fact on DU, is false.

Most tickets were free.

[TwilightZone]

16. Different debate.

The 300 figure was the number of tickets that the Florida Democratic Party had available for the Miami debate last summer. For that debate, there were 2,200 seats total.

The linked article: https://www.miamiherald.com/news/politics-government/national-politics/article231676383.html

[ehrnst]

17. Debunked. Care to retract?

[DarthDem]

9. Strange, my 10,000 Biden Supporters and I

. . . who were there paid at least $40K a pop. What a rip! At least we had our booing well-coordinated.

[TwilightZone]

11. The best part of the "booing" conspiracy theory...

was that both Biden *and* Bloomberg packed the audience. That would be some trick.

[DarthDem]

13. I did say well-coordinated

[LanternWaste]

15. Another conspiracy theory crashes and burns.

weep not, for the believers yet have the media, the polls, the money, the electorate, the neo-libs, the education system (plus a host of other imaginary boogey-men) to blame when the holy light doesn't shine shine down from the heavens on His anointed pate.

[ehrnst]

18. +1000.