{"id":2006251,"date":"2023-08-20T12:44:41","date_gmt":"2023-08-20T16:44:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/hutchinson-claims-he-has-qualified-for-first-republican-debate-rnc-yet-to-confirm\/"},"modified":"2023-08-20T12:46:08","modified_gmt":"2023-08-20T16:46:08","slug":"hutchinson-claims-he-has-qualified-for-first-republican-debate-rnc-yet-to-confirm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/hutchinson-claims-he-has-qualified-for-first-republican-debate-rnc-yet-to-confirm\/","title":{"rendered":"Hutchinson asserts debate qualification, RNC confirmation pending."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">14<\/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%2Fhutchinson-claims-he-has-qualified-for-first-republican-debate-rnc-yet-to-confirm%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=2006251&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>Former Arkansas Gov. Asa Hutchinson Qualifies for Presidential Debate<\/h2>\n<p>Former Arkansas\u2064 Gov. Asa Hutchinson proudly announced on CNN&#8217;s State of the Union that his campaign has met all the criteria set\u200b by \u200cthe Republican National Committee (RNC) to \u200bparticipate in the upcoming <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/gov-whitmer-media-caught-in-another-lie-anarchist-arrested-for-plot-to-kidnap-and-kill-whitmer-hates-president-trump-trump-is-a-tyrant-video\/\" title=\"Gov. Whitmer, Media Caught in Another Lie - Anarchist Arrested For Plot to Kidnap and Kill Whitmer Hates President Trump, 'Trump is a Tyrant' (VIDEO)\">presidential debate<\/a>. However, there are\u200c still some verification processes pending, according to a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/cruz-moves-to-take-taxpayer-money-from-iran-nuclear-deal-and-give-to-military-dogs\/\" title=\"Cruz Moves to Take Taxpayer Money from Iran Nuclear Deal and Give to Military Dogs\">source familiar<\/a> with the matter.<\/p>\n<h3>Qualification Requirements<\/h3>\n<p>To secure a spot \u2062on 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> in Milwaukee, \u2063Wisconsin, candidates must fulfill certain criteria:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Have a minimum of 40,000 unique donors, with at least 200 \u200cunique donors per state.<\/li>\n<li>Attain \u2064at least 1% \u2063support in three national polls that meet the RNC&#8217;s\u200b requirements, or achieve at least 1% support in two national polls \u200cand two polls from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/hutchinson-claims-he-has-qualified-for-first-republican-debate-rnc-yet-to-confirm\/\" title=\"Hutchinson asserts debate qualification, RNC confirmation pending.\">separate early voting states<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Additionally, each candidate is expected to sign a loyalty pledge, demonstrating their commitment to support and unite behind the eventual Republican nominee. \u2064As of now, Hutchinson has not yet \u200bsigned this pledge, despite being one of the few candidates who has openly criticized former President\u2064 Donald\u200d Trump.<\/p>\n<h3>Progress and Eligibility<\/h3>\n<p>Hutchinson&#8217;s campaign\u200b has submitted a total of 42,000 individual \u200ddonors to the RNC, surpassing the minimum requirement. He has also expressed his willingness to \u200csign the loyalty pledge.<\/p>\n<p>Currently, eight candidates are eligible \u2062for the debate stage. However, the front-runner, Donald Trump, has \u2062indicated that he will not attend. The eligible candidates \u2063include Gov. Ron DeSantis (R-FL), former United\u200b Nations Ambassador Nikki Haley, Sen. \u2063Tim Scott \u2062(R-SC), and \u200cformer New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie. Former Vice \u200dPresident Mike Pence, \u2062entrepreneur Vivek Ramaswamy, and\u200c Gov. Doug Burgum (R-ND) <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/pence-campaign-says-it-reached-donor-threshold-for-second-gop-primary-debate\/\" title=\"Pence campaign meets donor threshold for second GOP primary debate.\">initially faced challenges<\/a> in fundraising and\u2063 poll numbers but eventually met the\u2063 thresholds to qualify.<\/p>\n<p>Recent Controversies<\/p>\n<p>In recent days, Miami Mayor Francis Suarez claimed to have met the debate requirements, but the RNC quickly clarified that he had not \u2064yet qualified. Another candidate, Perry Johnson, also asserted that he\u200d qualified, but the RNC has not confirmed this.<\/p>\n<p>Stay tuned for more updates on the upcoming presidential debate!<\/p>\n<p><em>Click here to read more from The Washington Examiner.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former Arkansas Gov. Asa Hutchinson confidently stated that he met all the requirements set by the RNC to participate in the initial presidential debate. Despite a source informing the Washington Examiner about the verification process, Hutchinson announced on CNN&#8217;s State of the Union that his campaign successfully qualified for the debate.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2006252,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[538],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2006251","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-washington-examiner"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2006251","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2006251"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2006251\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2006252"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2006251"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2006251"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2006251"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}