It's Monday, July 31st. They're spending their money on ads. His team is

spending it on lawyers. We start here.

As GOP hopeful scrambled to get noticed, the entire race is revolving around one

candidate's legal woes. If the election becomes a referendum on what

document was left by the toilet at Mar-a-Lago, we are not going to win. The

debate many Republicans did not want to be drawn into has arrived. The CDC says

get ready for a COVID surge, but are we already there? We're seeing increases

in cases, but we're flying blind to a certain extent. Numbers continue to rise.

We'll ask an expert what he's watching for, and an American becomes the latest

kidnapping victim in Haiti. Gangs have always been an issue in Haiti, but since

the assassination, their power has exploded. Why more and more Haitians are

choosing between poverty at home and risking their life on the street?

From ABC News, this is Start Here. I'm Brad Milke.

Election Day is about 15 months away, but make no mistake. Candidates are in

crunch time now. The big reason is because we are barely three weeks from the

first Republican debate. That's right, it's already here. Forget rallies or

conferences, debates are where impressions can be made. This is where you can

make a move, but to get on the debate stage, you need a couple things. According

to GOP rules, you need 40,000 individual donors, and you need to be registering

in the polls. You got to hit 1% and at least three of them. According to our

data analyst at 538, only six candidates have qualified for the debate so far.

Donald Trump, Ron DeSantis, Nikki Haley, Tim Scott, Vivek Ramaswami, and Chris

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