The Miami mayor failed to make the stage for the first primary debate.
Miami Mayor Francis Suarez ended his longshot presidential bid Tuesday after failing to qualify for the first Republican primary debate in Milwaukee. He is the first GOP candidate to drop out of the race.
Suarez recently suggested to reporters during a visit to the Iowa State Fair that candidates that do not make the debate stage should“If you can’t meet the minimum thresholds, you shouldn’t be trying to take time and volume away from people that do,” he said during a press conference, adding, “I don’t think candidates should just sort of linger around if they don’t have a credible path.”
The Miami mayor also believed he met the RNC’s polling requirement, thinking three polls in which he’d hit the necessary 1% would be counted and that he would be allowed to debate. Suarez prematurely celebrated making the stage, posting a video that’s since been deleted, before learning one of those polls wasn’t counted by the RNC.
“The people who I’m running against right now are national figures for many, many years. I’ve been a national figure for 60 days,” said Suarez on August 11th. “There’s a lot of polls that I haven’t been in.”
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