Former Vice President Mike Pence’s 2024 Republican presidential campaign is in trouble — and there’s a humiliating prospect that Pence may not even qualify for the first GOP primary debate stage.
Pence doesn’t seem to have enough independent donors to qualify for the Aug. 23 debate in Milwaukee.
His campaign reported just $1.2 million in donations in the second quarter. A candidate must have at least 40,000 donors to be invited to the first Republican debate.
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His campaign is reportedly “scrambling” and asking supporters to chip in just $1 to help him qualify.
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On Wednesday, the former vice president paid for an email advertisement asking 40,000 people to donate just $1 to help him qualify. Pence’s campaign has declined to say how many donors they have.
In addition to the donor threshold, the RNC is also requiring candidates to register at least 1% in a series of polls. Pence is polling at 5.7%, which puts him in third place behind Trump and DeSantis, according to Real Clear Politics average of national polls. Pence is likely to meet the polling qualifications, but could struggle with the donor levels.
In addition to 40,000 donors, candidates must be polling at one percent or higher nationally. Pence has cleared this benchmark, according to RealClearPolitics polling aggregate, which calculates him at 5.4 percent.
But in a clear sign to how badly Pence’s campaign has stumbled early, the former VP was recently booed by a crowd of evangelical Christians — considered his voting base — during an interview with former Fox News star Tucker Carlson.
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Former President Donald Trump, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley, South Carolina Sen. Tim Scott, former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, and entrepreneur Vivek Ramaswamy have presumably all qualified for the debate already.
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