Tulsi Gabbard tells Fox News host Tucker Carlson that DNC debate criteria isn't transparent

[RandySF]

Hawaii Rep. Tulsi Gabbard is among the many Democratic presidential candidates who did not qualify for September’s debate round by yesterday’s deadline.

Now, she says that the criteria for making the debate stage “lacks transparency.”

Gabbard told Fox News’ Tucker Carlson that “the whole thing gets a little bit confusing and you’ve got to jump way down into the weeds of the numbers and the statistics, but I think the bigger problem is that the whole process really lacks transparency.”

The Democratic National Committee sets rules for candidates in order to qualify for each debate. While the first two rounds saw 20 candidates each, split into two nights of 10, the Sept. 12 debate criteria resulted in a much narrower pool. The guidelines for the third debate were announced in May, and 10 candidates qualified.

Candidates needed to receive donations from at least 130,000 unique donors, coming from at least 20 different states with at least 400 donors per state. And, candidates needed to poll at 2% or higher in at least four qualifying national or early primary state surveys.




https://news.yahoo.com/tulsi-gabbard-tells-fox-news-180039448.html

[pnwmom]

1. Whether or not anyone agrees with the criteria, I don't understand how someone could logically say

they're not being transparent.

I would say that, by going on Tucker's show to complain, she's being a bit transparent herself.

[thesquanderer]

13. What is not transparent about the DNC rules is how they selected which polls would count.

Here are the rules about qualifying polls:

A candidate must receive 2 percent support or more in four national or early state polls—Iowa, New Hampshire, South Carolina, and/or Nevada—publicly released between June 28, 2019, and August 28, 2019. Any candidate’s four qualifying polls must be conducted by different organizations, or if by the same organization, must be in different geographical areas. Qualifying polls are limited to the following organizations and institutions:

Associated Press
ABC News
CBS News
CNN
Des Moines Register
Fox News
Monmouth University
NBC News
New York Times
National Public Radio
Quinnipiac University
University of New Hampshire
Wall Street Journal
USA Today
Washington Post
Winthrop University

So the non-transparent part is how those polls were chosen. That is, why count NPR (B- rated) but not Emerson (B+ rated) or YouGov (B rated)? (Counting Emerson and YouGov would have given Gabbard the other two qualifying polls she needed.) I'm not saying the DNC is wrong to not count them, I'm just pointing out that the selection criteria is not transparent.

[BlueMTexpat]

14. Bingo! eom

[msongs]

2. she has her own transparency issues nt

[benld74]

3. What's the matter with Hawaii?

[Cha]

9. Hey!

[Indykatie]

4. Tulsi's Campaign Lied and Claimed She Met Threshold in 26 Polls But They Weren't DNC Approved

I'm a poll geek and check out all polling regardless of who does it or where it's from. I'd be hard pressed to find 1 poll with Tulsi polling 2% or higher let alone 26. Tulsi has strong GOP support so she had no trouble meeting fund raising thresholds. They couldn't get her over the polling threshold though.

[Cha]

10. Thanks for your post, Indykatie.. I'm

the opposite of a polling geek!

[TwilightZone]

5. The rules are quite clear.

She's just choosing to misrepresent them, it would seem.

https://democrats.org/news/third-debate/

[Cha]

11. Doesn't bode well

for Gabbard.

Come on! Going on racist tucker carlson's to complain about the "transparency" of Democratic Debates".. when it's not true.

Who does that help?

[JI7]

6. did she complain when Seth Moulton was kept out of the first 2 debates ?

[Bradical79]

7. Gabbard's basically saying she's an idiot...

...along with everyone she has working for her. Not a good look as a Democrat to go on Fox News complaining about transparency in regards to easily calculated public criterea.

[djacq]

12. The very last thing a Progressive would do;

Go on Fox News and whine.

[StarfishSaver]

15. Of course it's not. She didn't meet the criteria so it must be rigged

[comradebillyboy]

16. I'm going to guess that not very many Democratic primary voters

are in Tucker's audience. I wonder who Gabbard thinks she's appealing to.

[SidDithers]

17. There's something missing in this thread...

There's usually a full-throated defense of Tulsi anytime she's criticized.



Sid

[Zambero]

18. Hoping that her 2020 primary challenger...

Is a strong and viable candidate. Ironic indeed that Gabbard will not commit to a debate with a primary challenger(s) given that her seat in Congress is at stake.

[NurseJackie]

19. Oh brother!

[TomCADem]

20. Meghan McCain Clashes With 'View' Co-Hosts on Tulsi Gabbard: She's No 'Russian Stooge'

It is odd how Tulsi Gabbard gets support from Russians and Republicans. Perhaps because the main thing she brings to the table is to attack Democrats and other Democratic candidates, except for Bernie, with a boost from foreign Russian outlets.

https://www.thedailybeast.com/meghan-mccain-clashes-with-view-co-hosts-on-tulsi-gabbard-shes-no-russian-stooge

“The Republicans like her, and I think she’s a real Trojan horse here because when you look at her record, in particular, she’s apologized for it but she was very anti-LGBTQ community,” co-host Sunny Hostin said Thursday on The View. “She also has praised Trump for meeting with Kim Jong Un three times.”

“That’s why they like her,” liberal host Joy Behar quipped.

Hostin, meanwhile, went on to highlight that Gabbard voted for a measure that would prevent Syrian refugees from settling in America, adding that the Democratic lawmaker also has refused to call Assad a war criminal.

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This prompted co-host Ana Navarro to note that she may just be “paranoid” but Gabbard has suddenly received a lot of support from people “who used to dislike her tremendously.” “There is a lot of writings in Russia Today and Russian traffic around Tulsi,” Navarro stated, referencing the notorious Russian propaganda media arm. “There is something going on. I suspect it’s not knowingly by her because I think she’s a decent human being who served this country, but I’m paranoid.”