Out of the 24 Democratic campaigns currently underway, 20 candidates managed to surpass at least one of the thresholds.
The Democratic National Committee announced on Thursday the much-anticipated list of 2020 candidates who qualified for the party's first presidential debates, scheduled for later this month.
Out of the 24 Democratic campaigns currently underway, 20 candidates managed to meet at least one of these criteria.Friday."It's hard to get a lower bar than 1 percent. We gave folks a fair shake." Montana Governor Steve Bullock takes a break while campaigning for democrat Dan Vermillion who is running for the Montana Legislature District 30 Senate seat in the 2018 elections, on February 28, 2018 in Livingston, Montana.Despite broad approval of President Trump in the state, Montana has, in addition to a Democratic governor, a well-liked Democratic senator, Jon Tester, who comfortably fended off a Republican challenger in 2018.
"Governor Bullock has met the threshold for qualification for the first debate," his campaign manager wrote in a June 12 letter to the DNC obtained byConnecticut's Moulton, who served in the Marine Corps for seven years and fought in Iraq, has invoked his service as a boon to his foreign policy credentials, setting up a sharp contrast with President Trump who avoided service during the Vietnam War.
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