(Source: MIRS.news, Published 08/18/23) Michigan "quality guru" Perry Johnson appears to have cleared all of the thresholds to make the GOP primary presidential debate stage next Wednesday, after securing at least 1% in two recognized polls, which was needed to qualify per national Republican rules.
The 9 p.m. exchange hosted by the Republican National Committee, however, will not feature frontrunner Donald Trump, who The New York Times reports will do an interview with Tucker Carlson instead.
As for Johnson, he claims to have 50,000 unique donors – more than the 40,000 that were needed. He also scored at least 1% in the latest Trafalgar survey, his second finish in a major poll of 1% or more. Entrance onto the debate stage makes him a "major" candidate now under FiveThirtyEight's criteria, according to FiveThirtyEight's Geoffrey Skelley.
Johnson also leads former Vice President Mike Pence in the most recent Emerson poll of New Hampshire primary voters and earned 1% of the vote in Friday’s Victory Insights national poll.
“There has been a flood of polling in the last 72 hours that meet the RNC’s requirements and qualify me for the debate stage," Johnson said. “Therefore I will be at the debate in Milwaukee and look forward to sharing my Two Cents Plan to Save America which will balance the budget and secure the border.
“I am encouraging President Trump to attend the debate so the American people can measure the plans and the records of all major candidates on stage.”
The Johnson campaign said the candidate has attended and hosted more than 100 events in early states and has built a “strong get-out-the-vote operation in early states like Iowa and New Hampshire.”
The Monmouth, McLaughlin, Big Village Caravan, and Emerson College polls also have Johnson at 1% or 2% in early state or national surveys with the Iowa caucus five months away.
