Increased DNC debate threshold will keep Tulsi Gabbard offstage
by Emily Larsen
March 06, 2020 04:48 PM Long shot candidate Tulsi Gabbard, the last remaining woman in the Democratic presidential race, is all but certain to be excluded from the party's next presidential debate because of a sharp increase in Democratic National Committee qualifying thresholds.
Candidates will need to earn 20% of all delegates awarded in primary contests before March 15, as calculated by CNN or the Associated Press, to qualify for the March 15 Democratic presidential debate in Arizona, the DNC announced Friday.
With roughly 1,870 delegates up for grabs before the deadline, a candidate must amass about 374 delegates to qualify. Delegate allocation is sometimes delayed as states calculate final results— many delegates from Tuesday's California primary, for instance, have yet to be allocated. In the event some had not been calculated, the DNC will use the number assigned at that time as the total.
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