Democratic debates are coming up, with dark horses poised to share the spotlight by realchriswilson
A new Democratic Party rule meant to help candidates who have grassroots support looks like it will vault two dark horses onto the stage for the primary debates — which begin in just three months.
The candidates who seem primed to benefit are tech entrepreneur Andrew Yang and South Bend, Ind., Mayor Pete Buttigieg. Yang, who has been pushing a universal basic income policy, announced earlier this month that he had already passed the 65,000-donor threshold and set a goal of 200,000 by June. Buttigieg is getting close, riding a series of well-received media appearances to more than 55,000 donors.
Pro-Yang memes began to spread across social media platforms and message boards as interest grew in his UBI plan, which would provide $1,000 checks every month to every American over age 18. While some of that support for his plan has come from darker corners of the internet aligned with the so-called alt-right, Yang has not courted that support.
“I have rarely seen a candidate make better use of televised Town Hall than @PeteButtigieg is on @CNN tonight,” wrote David Axelrod, a former senior adviser to Barack Obama, about the CNN appearance Sunday. “Crisp, thoughtful and relatable. He’ll be a little less of a long shot tomorrow.” If there are more than 20 eligible candidates, the DNC said the positions would go first to candidates who qualify under both the poll and donor standards, and the remaining slots would be allocated on the basis of poll ranking. But Yang and Buttigieg are in strong positions to qualify simply because recent polling shows well below 20 options:
· A poll of likely Democratic caucus goers in Iowa found nine announced candidates, plus Biden, at 1 percent or above.
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