They effectively cull themselves in the minds of anyone who has sense.
Via Daily Wire:
It’s going to be a lot tougher to compete for the 2020 Democratic presidential nomination come September, according to Democratic National Committee guidelines released this week.
The DNC announced earlier this year that the guidelines for entering the first set of debates, set to take place over the course of two days in late June, would remain unchanged from previous cycles. But to qualify for the second series of debates, set to take place in September, the DNC is severely upping the ante.
It seems that while the DNC was willing to tolerate a field of at least two dozen candidates for a short time, they won’t be coddling competitors like Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY), who can barely clear 1% in national polls, forever, even if Gillibrand and others insist their Oval Office dreams aren’t dead.
The Washington Post reports that the DNC plans to double the fundraising requirement for candidates entering the second round, and will mandate a significant base of support in four specific polls, rather than a base of support calculated based on a national average.
“To appear in the party’s third debate, which will be broadcast by ABC News and Univision, candidates will have to earn 2 percent support in four party-sanctioned polls between late June and August. In addition, they will have to show they’ve attracted at least 130,000 donors since the start of the campaign, including at least 400 from 20 different states,” WaPo reports.