Who's going to qualify for the Democratic debates?

[Warren 4 Secretary of Everything]

The DNC needs to reevaluate this criteria. Candidates like Yang (no matter now nice his platform is) and Williamson have no place on that debate stage. And Gabbard is barely better than them, but at least she’s held some office.

[Warren 4 Secretary of Everything]

The DNC needs to reevaluate this criteria. Candidates like Yang (no matter now nice his platform is) and Williamson have no place on that debate stage. And Gabbard is barely better than them, but at least she’s held some office.

Don’t be such a snob.

Why should holding a previous office be any criteria ?

Anyone meeting the polling and fundraising criteria should be included, no problem.

It may be better to see weed out the best candidate from a crowded field. If they can survive something chaotic as dealing with a multitude of primary challengers, they have enough savvyness to beat their challenger in the Presidential election.

Because we’re not the Republicans. Our entire message is that Trump is and was unqualified to be President. So why would we elevate candidates that have just as little experience or qualifications as him?

[Warren 4 Secretary of Everything]

The DNC needs to reevaluate this criteria. Candidates like Yang (no matter now nice his platform is) and Williamson have no place on that debate stage. And Gabbard is barely better than them, but at least she’s held some office.

Don’t be such a snob.

Why should holding a previous office be any criteria ?

Anyone meeting the polling and fundraising criteria should be included, no problem.

It may be better to see weed out the best candidate from a crowded field. If they can survive something chaotic as dealing with a multitude of primary challengers, they have enough savvyness to beat their challenger in the Presidential election.

Because we’re not the Republicans. Our entire message is that Trump is and was unqualified to be President. So why would we elevate candidates that have just as little experience or qualifications as him?

So you're saying the only reason Democrats think Trump is unqualified to be President is because he never held public office before?

It’s not the only reason, but it’s obviously a big part of it. We have to draw the line somewhere.

[Warren 4 Secretary of Everything]

The DNC really should’ve instituted a “have to have held prior public office” requirement to the September and October debate to keep out Yang and Williamson.

[Warren 4 Secretary of Everything]

The DNC really should’ve instituted a “have to have held prior public office” requirement to the September and October debate to keep out Yang and Williamson.

Please stop your extremely silly hatred of people who have never held public office before.

The DNC really should’ve instituted a “have to have held prior public office” requirement to the September and October debate to keep out Yang and Williamson.

How about we let the voters decide if that's important or not.

Maybe I sound elitist, but the voters are idiots. They decided it wasn’t important 3 years ago, and look where we are now. The DNC needs to cull this field of more than half the candidates, and Yang and Williamson should be at the top of that list. Neither of them are even barely qualified to govern the state of Wyoming, let alone the entire United States.

[Warren 4 Secretary of Everything]

Hopefully they don’t do a random drawing for the October debates and put Bernie, Warren, and Biden on stage together. Everyone else is an afterthought.

[Warren 4 Secretary of Everything]

Gabbard qualified for October.

Dammit we should be shrinking the debate stage, not expanding it. They need to keep Warren and Biden on the same stage. Everyone else is moot at this point.

[Warren 4 Secretary of Everything]

I’m hoping they keep it at 2 hours and just ignore everyone on the fringes of the debate stage.

[Warren 4 Secretary of Everything]

The February debate criteria is probably gonna be that Yang will be the only one allowed on stage, as the rest of the field is completely useless and incompetent, as the Iowa debate so damn clearly showed in every way. The only thing all news outlets were talking about was how awful the debate had been, and several news outlets said plain outright that it had been the worst, most boring, least inspiring and least educative of all time. And most of the news articles lamented the ridiculous omission of Yang which was the only reason why the debate turned into a snoozefest. Yang trended higher on Twitter than almost every single debate contestant during the debate itself, and the same was true for YouTube. If that's not a kill all, end all for your campaign, then I don't know what possibly could be.

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Dude, Yang has been as much a non-factor in the past debates as Steyer was the other night.