{"id":2005957,"date":"2023-08-19T18:12:02","date_gmt":"2023-08-19T22:12:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/francis-suarez-admits-he-has-not-met-debate-requirements-despite-claiming-he-did\/"},"modified":"2023-08-19T18:13:20","modified_gmt":"2023-08-19T22:13:20","slug":"francis-suarez-admits-he-has-not-met-debate-requirements-despite-claiming-he-did","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/francis-suarez-admits-he-has-not-met-debate-requirements-despite-claiming-he-did\/","title":{"rendered":"Suarez confesses to not meeting debate requirements, despite previous claims."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Ffrancis-suarez-admits-he-has-not-met-debate-requirements-despite-claiming-he-did%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2005957&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><h2>Miami Mayor Francis Suarez \u200cFalls Short of Qualifying\u200d for Republican Presidential Debate<\/h2>\n<p>Miami Mayor <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/miami-mayor-francis-suarez-announces-gop-presidential-bid-despite-support-for-left-wing-positions\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Francis Suarez<\/a> admitted\u2063 on Friday night that \u200bhis campaign has not qualified for the first Republican \u200cpresidential debate, despite claiming \u2062hours earlier that he had met \u201call\u201d \u2062the requirements to get on the stage.<\/p>\n<p>Early on Friday, Suarez confidently announced, &#8220;I am excited \u2064to \u200dannounce that I have met all of the\u200c criteria to qualify\u2063 for the @GOP\u2019s first <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/christie-says-trump-is-a-liar-and-coward-as-gop-candidates-prepare-for-presidential-debate\/\" title=\"Christie slams Trump as a 'lying coward' ahead of GOP debate.\">primary \u2062debate<\/a>.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>However, The New York \u200cTimes <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/interactive\/2023\/08\/01\/us\/elections\/republican-debate-qualifications.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">noted<\/a> that Suarez has not yet qualified for the debate because he does not meet the polling requirements. The \u200dRealClearPolitics average, which is not included \u200cin\u200d the RNC\u2019s requirements,\u200d shows Suarez is \u2063only at .3% nationally.<\/p>\n<p>Several \u2063hours after his post on X, formerly known as Twitter, Suarez admitted during a CNN interview that he had not qualified for the\u2062 debate.<\/p>\n<p>Suarez said that the\u2063 RNC has not yet certified the \u2064number \u2062of donors that he \u200bsays he \u2064has and he still has not met the polling requirements. He cited a poll from <span style=\"font-size: 16px\">Kaplan Strategies that shows him \u200dat 2% nationally, although\u2063 he \u2062noted \u2064that the RNC has not yet certified\u200b the poll.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>CNN host Kaitlan Collins noted that \u200bSuarez still needs <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/francis-suarez-admits-he-has-not-met-debate-requirements-despite-claiming-he-did\/\" title=\"Suarez confesses to not meeting debate requirements, despite previous claims.\">multiple <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/happy-tax-day-americans-are-receiving-much-lower-tax-refunds-this-year\/\" title=\"Happy Tax Day: Americans Are Receiving Much Lower Tax Refunds This Year\">additional polls<\/a>\u2062 showing<\/a> him \u2062over\u2064 the 1% threshold to get on the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/bill-barr-should-have-stepped-up-president-trump-goes-off-on-bill-barr-over-his-silence-on-hunter-biden-video\/\" title=\"\u201cBill Barr Should Have Stepped Up!\u201d \u2013 President Trump Goes Off on Bill Barr over His Silence on Hunter Biden (VIDEO)\">debate stage<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 16px\">\u201cSo, but\u200c you haven\u2019t actually gotten that number yet, to where the RNC says, \u2018Yes, you\u2019ve made it?&#8217;\u201d Collins <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/kaitlancollins\/status\/1692729068536340977?s=20\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">asked<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u201cYes, they have not \u2062yet given me sort of that \u2062<a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/electoral-college-finalizes-certification-of-votes\/\" title=\"Electoral College finalizes certification of votes\">final certification<\/a>,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p><b><a href=\"https:\/\/onelink.to\/dwapp\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" aria-describedby=\"sk-tooltip-9096\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/onelink.to\/dwapp&#038;source=gmail&#038;ust=1692551179799000&#038;usg=AOvVaw149wVUFucE7CWxRq9-A4I-\">CLICK HERE TO GET THE DAILYWIRE+ \u200cAPP<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n<p>He said that\u2062 he hopes that \u200badditional polls will come out over the weekend \u2062that will qualify him for the debate.<\/p>\n<p>The Associated Press later <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/sppeoples\/status\/1692568610625958244\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">reported<\/a> that senior \u200cofficials at the RNC said that Suarez has not qualified for the debate.<\/p>\n<p>Suarez later said that\u2063 he agreed with prior remarks that he made that any \u200bcandidate who did not make \u2062the \u2063debate stage should drop out \u2014 including\u2064 himself.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Miami Mayor Francis Suarez admitted on Friday that his campaign failed to qualify for the first Republican debate, despite his earlier claim of meeting all requirements. 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