The Republican National Committee is ratcheting up its standards, demanding candidates hit a 50,000 unique donor threshold — up from 40,000, and clinch at least 3% in select polling — up from 1%, a…
the pledge was a no-go for him given his aversion to the party’s frontrunner, former President Donald Trump.take the pledge in 2024 just as seriously as Donald Trump“We had these debate pledges eight years ago. And all of us signed them,” he told CNN last month. “Then we got on the debate stage and we were asked to reaffirm them. Donald Trump refused to raise his hand.”
There’s another seven at least mildly prominent GOP hopefuls that do not appear to have qualified for the first debate just yet.With three weeks to go until the first debate, seven candidates are believed to have met the RNC’s polling and donor requirements to participate: Trump, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, former ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley, Sen. Tim Scott , entrepreneur Vivek Ramaswamy, Christie, and North Dakota Gov. Doug Burgum.
Notably, former Vice President Mike Pence and former Arkansas Gov. Asa Hutchinson have not yet confirmed they cleared the donor hurdle, though they have met the polling requirements. Looming over the first debate is hubbub about whether Trump will participate. The former president’s longtime adviser, Jason MillerThe big question ahead of the first debate is whether frontrunner Donald Trump will participate.on Truth Social Tuesday with a graphic showing his enormous polling lead over his peers.
The post came ahead of his third indictment in the last four months, on four counts for his alleged scheming to overturn the 2020 election. Trump is due for arraignment in federal court Thursday.
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