'It's definitely causing stress': New DNC debate requirements put the pressure on democratic candidates

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🗓️ 10 May 2019

⏱️ 33 minutes

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On the show this week, a packed democratic presidential field makes getting a spot on the debate stage a challenge for candidates, so some of them have completely changed their campaign strategies in hopes of securing a spot. POLITICO national political reporter Elena Schneider joins the show to talk about the requirements for getting onto the stage, and how democratic candidates have reacted. Then, national political reporter Chris Cadelago joins the show to talk about Kamala Harris, who had a new message in the midwest this past weekend. Then, Jesus Rodriguez joins the Nerdcast to talk about a story he wrote for POLITICO magazine, about the takeover of the Venezuelan embassy in DC, and how that ties into the situation in Venezuela proper. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hello listeners. This is Politico's nerdcast. I'm your host Scott Bland.
0:07.0	Coming up on this week's episode with a packed Democratic presidential field
0:17.7	getting a spot on the debate stage can be a challenge for candidates so
0:20.9	some of them are completely changing their campaign strategies
0:24.0	in hopes of securing a spot via new criteria that came out just this year.
0:28.0	Plus Venezuela is a mess and we're going to get into it this week via a weird wild Washington
0:34.6	embassy takeover. New story in political magazine we have the author in
0:37.5	studio. Just a heads up before we get going here we are taping this a little bit
0:41.4	before noon eastern on Thursday
0:42.8	May 9th so everything's up to date as of then. All right let's get started I want to
0:47.4	welcome in two of Politico's national political reporters
0:50.3	Elena Schneider's here in the studio hello Elena
0:52.2	he's got and Chris catalogo hey Chris reporters, Elena Schneider's here in the studio. Hello, Elena. Hey, Scott.
0:53.2	And Chris, Katellago, hey Chris.
0:55.1	Hey, how are you?
0:55.8	Good, good, good, good.
0:56.7	Thank you for both being here.
0:57.6	Here is our first data point.
0:59.3	65,000.
1:01.0	That is the number of individual donors that candidates need to get in order to qualify for the debate stage under new criteria from the Democratic National Committee, which is running the Democratic debate process.
1:14.9	That's a new piece of criteria this year.
1:16.7	We've seen some other ones in the past, about polling, this and that.
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