NEW: DNC raises qualification threshold for November presidential debate.
WASHINGTON — The Democratic National Committee is raising the qualification threshold for the November presidential debate, but the jump is less steep thanTo qualify, candidates will need to hit 3 percent support in at least four early state or national polls that meet the DNC’s methodological requirements, up from 2 percent for theThe number of unique online donors needed to qualify will climb to 165,000, up from 130,000 for the previous two debates.
That's smaller than the jump from the debates this summer to the early fall, when the polling and donor thresholds doubled.But there will be a new option for candidates to meet the polling threshold: They can now check that box by getting at least 5 percent in two polls of early states — Iowa, New Hampshire, Nevada, and South Carolina — instead of 3 percent in four polls.
using the previous threshold: Former Vice President Joe Biden; Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren; Vermont Independent Sen. Bernie Sanders; California Sen. Kamala Harris; South Bend, Mayor Pete Buttigieg of South Bend, Ind.; New Jersey Sen. Cory Booker; Minnesota Sen. Amy Klobuchar; former Housing Secretary Julián Castro; former Texas Rep. Beto O'Rourke; entrepreneur Andrew Yang; and billionaire Tom Steyer.
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