First GOP Debate Next Month Faces Struggles Of Boycott As Lower-Polling Candidates Scramble To Qualify

Seven weeks before the first GOP debate of the 2024 GOP primary, anxiety is building that the event could prove chaotic and divisive for the party.

First GOP Debate Next Month Faces Struggles Of Boycott As Lower-Polling Candidates Scramble To Qualify (PHOTO: Fermont Tribune)

First GOP Debate Next Month

Other candidates together with former Arkansas Governor Asa Hutchinson, are struggling to meet fundraising and polling requirements to make it on stage.

Hutchinson and others are moving back on a loyalty pledge the Republican Party is insisting candidates sign to participate. And the race’s frontrunner, former President Donald Trump, is contemplating boycotting and holding a competing event instead.

That’s turning what is typically the highly awaited start of the election season into a source of uncertainty for the candidates and larger party. The frustration is particularly acute for candidates who desired to utilize the discussion as a powerful opportunity to face former president Trump and try to blunt his momentum.

Hutchinson said in an interview that if the outcome of all of these machinations is a very limited field and no Trump in the first GOP debate, it’s hard to see how that can be victorious. However, Hutchinson proclaimed that he is positive that he will make it to the first GOP debate on Milwaukee’s stage, even though he claimed that he has only obtained fewer contributions from over 5,000 donors.

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The First GOP Debate In Milwaukee Regulations

According to the Republican National Committee reported by ABC News said that in order to participate in the August 3 debate in Milwaukee, candidates must have received contributions from at least 40,000 contributors, with at least 200 unique contributors in 20 or more states. Candidates should also earn at least 1 percent in three high-quality national polls, or a mix of national and early-state polls, between July 1 and August 21.

Moreover, candidates will also have to sign a pledge “agreeing to support the eventual party nominee,” according to an RNC press release, and one agreeing not to participate in any non-RNC approved GOP debate for the rest of the election cycle.

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