Who's in, who's out: Which candidates qualified for 1st Republican presidential debate of 2024
Hindustan TimesWith two weeks until the first Republican presidential debate of the 2024 campaign, eight candidates say they have met qualifications to be on stage in Milwaukee, with former Vice President Mike Pence announcing this week he had secured enough donors. The only woman in the GOP race, Haley has said transgender students competing in sports is “the women’s issue of our time” and has drawn praise from a leading anti-abortion group, which called her “uniquely gifted at communicating from a pro-life woman’s perspective.” Bringing in $15.6 million, Haley's campaign says she has well over 40,000 unique donors and has satisfied the debate polling requirements. On Tuesday, Pence's campaign noted that he had met the donor mark faster than other candidates and done so without “schemes, giveaways, or gimmicks used by other campaigns.” WHO HASN'T QUALIFIED: ASA HUTCHINSON According to his campaign, the former two-term Arkansas governor has met the polling requirements but is still working on passing the donor threshold. LARRY ELDER The conservative radio host wrote in an op-ed that the Republican National Committee “has rigged the rules of the game by instituting a set of criteria that is so onerous and poorly designed that only establishment-backed and billionaire candidates are guaranteed to be on stage.” His campaign last month declined to detail its number of donors, saying only that there had been "a strong increase the last few weeks.” He has not met the polling requirements.
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