I looked at all the qualifying June national polls, and here’s what I got:
Joe Biden - 32%
Bernie Sanders - 16%
Elizabeth Warren - 12%
Pete Buttigieg & Kamala Harris - 7%
Beto O’Rourke - 3%
Cory Booker - 2%
Amy Klobuchar & Andrew Yang - 1%
Everybody else registered under 1%. Julian Castro just missed the cut with a .8% of the vote.
Under most presidential seasons, we would have seen those 9 candidates on stage, but the Dems want to be more “inclusive”, so they included 11 irrelevant candidates, barely registering in the polls.
Don’t get me wrong, as a political junky, I will watch both debates, but it’s going to be a trainwreck and the Dems will realize why we only put a limited number of candidates.
I dont think Biden will last. Hes got the name recognition now but once the debates and campaigns kick into high gear I think after 2016 dems want something new/fresh