Today’s installment of campaign-related news items from across the country.
* Six Republican presidential candidates have qualified for this week’s primary debate: former Gov. Chris Christie, Gov. Ron DeSantis, former Ambassador Nikki Haley, businessman Vivek Ramaswamy, Sen. Tim Scott, and Donald Trump, though the former president is refusing to participate. North Dakota Gov. Doug Burgum, who made the cut for the first two debates, fell short.
* On a related note, the Republican National Committee released the thresholds for the fourth primary debate, which will be predictably more difficult than the third. As The New York Times reported, candidates will need at least 80,000 unique donors and 6% support “in two national polls, or in one national poll and in one poll in one of the four early states.”
* The Associated Press reportedly obtained a campaign memo sent to the DeSantis campaign’s national donor network. Though the Florida governor initially said he intended to try to win the Iowa caucuses, the new document says the goal is to deny Trump “a big win” in the Hawkeye State.
* Speaking of DeSantis and Trump, the governor’s campaign this week released a video pointing to 21 “fumbles, accidents, and confused moments” from the former president. Each of the documented instances came from this year.









