Photo Illustration by Lyne Lucien/The Daily Beast/GettyThere will be no great winnowing. At least not yet. After four nights of debates featuring more than 20 Democratic presidential candidates, the televised fall contests were supposed to be the moment where the party’s presidential field would be cut
After four nights of debates featuring more than 20 Democratic presidential candidates, the televised fall contests were supposed to be the moment where the party’s presidential field would be cut down to size.
The DNC seemed to be eager for that too. Following the first two debates, the committee raised the threshold for candidates to qualify, requiring any candidate to hit 2 percent in four polls, and have at least 130,000 unique donors, a measure intended to weed out the less serious contenders. But that criteria has had a perverse side-effect, insiders fear, by creating incentive structures for candidates that are largely unhelpful.
“The DNC has a very hard job,” Brian Fallon, former Clinton national press secretary, said. “When they announced the enhanced criteria, the howls were loud that they were winnowing the field too soon. Now it appears the criteria was not strict enough. It has a distorting effect to put candidates barely touching 2 percent on the same footing as those who are consistently polling in the top four.
All told, the Democrats plan on holding 12 debates before the primary is over, with half taking place before the Iowa caucuses. While major networks like CNN and NBC expect they may get another debate before the year is out, others like PBS are also jockeying for a slot. Sources familiar told The Daily Beast that the DNC is even thinking about holding a second debate in Texas, the site of September’s debate on ABC.
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