Does the DNC's debate rule change benefit billionaire candidates?

Does the DNC's debate rule change benefit billionaire candidates? The Hill/HarrisX daily poll takes a look. This survey was conducted online within the United States from February 7-10, 2020 among 2,000 registered voters by HarrisX. The sampling margin of error of this poll is plus or minus 2.19 percentage points. The results reflect a nationally representative sample of registered voters. Results were weighted for age within gender, region, race/ethnicity, income, political party, and education where necessary to align them with their actual proportions in the population.

[bigneon_glitter]

Dems on Bernie: "bUt He'S nOt A dEmOcRaT!"
Dems on Bloomberg: "Only a racist REPUBLICAN billionaire can save us now"

[JM-eryl]

Yes and Tom Perez should be removed as DNC chair, by any means necessary!

[natedunn]

He bought his way on stage just like he has bought everything else, take money out of politics now !!!#Bernie2020

[VladieShark]

Yang never had trouble hitting the donor threshold. The time he didn't make the debate was because there weren't enough polls being run during the holidays.

[zentai]

DNC: lets let republican perspectives in our primary

us:buh bye

[Pnkfloid]

Hopefully he'll get destroyed in the debate. That's all we can hope for

[dissonance]

Fun Fact: the DNC upholds its rules based on the amount of a donation✌🏼

[Yul-Uhlu]

Billionaire "Republican" NY Mayor now runnning for Democratic Presidential nomination. Did ya catch that...? Why isn't this more reported by cable media? This guy is literally one of the one percent.

[inotmark]

Wrong question. "Does anyone who is not a billionaaire benefit the DNC?" is the proper question. Everything else flows like water downhill from that answer.

[sleepingself]

Obviously, it's intended to benefit Bloomberg. Grease the skids for the man with the grease.

[anuzis]

Yang didn't miss any debates due to donor threshold. The only debate he missed was when the DNC raised the polling threshold before the holidays which saw 40+ days without a single poll in early states. (Also same period as impeachment hearings which took polling resources)

[ForAnAngel]

Andrew never had any problem reaching the donor threshold, he had about twice as many donors as Amy, almost half a million. Stop grouping him together with billionaires like Bloomberg.

[tommyknocker]

Well DUH!!!


Edit: also this section of the Hill REEKS of MSDNC. I wish i could subscribe to Rising and skip this section completely!

[mickeywood]

This represents the arrogance of the DNC, and it's a slap in the face of this American patriot. Minorities are American too.! Even the playing field, bring back Kamila, and Castro, let Tulsi in, as well as Yang. Legitimize your slight.

[mrjljjl]

The reason it was changed was to benefit a wealthy person. The fact its changed now and not when it affected non rich people highlights that fact pretty well in my opinion.

[williambaldwin]

he benefits more by not debating, he needs to face Bernie IN THE CAGE!!!!

[Frahamen]

That's definitely what they were going for, but having Mr. Stop and Frisk on the stage can only harm his chances. Voters mostly know his commercials, now they will hear some backlash from his opponents.

[grsshppr]

Ppl think the banker in Monopoly is the strongest slot from which to cheat at the game.

It's not.

The strongest player is the one holding the list of rules.

[naturalearthfarm]

As usual you leave Tulsi out of the conversation.

[frankbauerful]

Regardless of the abstract concerns with the rule change, in this particular case it is definitely good, because Bloomberg is a viable candidate and we need to see him challenged face to face by Bernie.