Steve Bullock's out,Bill de Blasio's in.Here's who's making the cut for the first Democratic debates

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Steve Bullock is out, Bill de Blasio is in. Here’s who’s making the cut for the first Democratic debates.


Barring a last-minute change, Montana Gov. Steve Bullock will not make the stage.

https://www.politico.com/story/2019/06/06/democratic-debates-2020-election-1356115


A prominent governor running in the Democratic primary is at serious risk of getting shut out of the party’s first presidential debates — while a meditation guru and obscure tech entrepreneur take the stage for the most important event of the race so far.

That’s the state of play less than a week before the deadline to qualify for the debates on June 26-27 under the rules set by the Democratic National Committee.

Presidential hopefuls have until June 12 to cross one of two thresholds to qualify for the primary debates, and 13 of the 20 slots available are set. Montana Gov. Steve Bullock is currently out, one of the foremost candidates in danger of missing the stage. His camp blasted what it called the DNC's eleventh-hour "unmasking" of "arbitrary" polling rules, but the DNC said the Bullock campaign has been aware of the criteria for months.

Bullock’s status isn’t the only question remaining in the final week of qualifying, but the latest update comes after the Democratic National Committee provided POLITICO with additional guidance about its polling criteria — the first time the party committee has publicly addressed questions surrounding the previously announced guidelines.

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[uawchild]

1. which one is the "meditation guru"?

It's hard to keep up. lol

[Celerity]

2. Marianne Williamson

https://www.marianne2020.com/

I cannot believe de Blasio is going to qualify and Bullock likely will not.

Bullock so so needs to go back to Montana and run against the RW Trumper Daines and knock him out of the Senate. Bullock and Stacey Abrams not running for Senate are the two biggest disappointments, both are by far our best shots in MT and GA. We need the Senate!!!

[hlthe2b]

3. I can't believe she qualified and Bullock did not...

I think she has good positions and seems lovely, but damn--enough "personalities"... We need someone who knows what they are doing with a track record of good decision-making. EXPERIENCE matters!

[MarcA]

6. Same here. Hopefully we will have a very widespread and organized

retake the Senate effort.

[Otto Lidenbrock]

4. Disappointed for Bullock

He has experience in governing, passing budgets and working with legislators to pass bills and get things done. In a state Trump won.

I feel having a Governor on the stage is always a good and necesssry thing. We have a great field of ideas and personalities but one which is a little over saturated with candidates trying to occupy the same lane. We do need pragmatism too.

[JI7]

7. agree, actually having heid office should be qualification more

than some other things

[JI7]

5. there is something wrong with this. the ones that never held public office

are the ones that make me most angry.

also, how did deblasio make it but not Bullock ?

[crazytown]

8. Steve Bullock announced too late May 14, 2019

He gave himself no time to build up donors.