Des Moines, IA- Six presidential candidates have met the polling and fundraising requirements for the first televised debate in August, and other candidates are scrambling to get invited.
Radio Iowa reports that Just five of the 13 presidential candidates on stage at the Iowa GOP’s Friday night banquet have gotten donations from 40-thousand different people and had at least one percent support in public opinion polls the Republican National Committee is recognizing.
Miami Mayor Francis Suarez has only met that fundraising mark. Suarez sought to build his name recognition among the 12-hundred or so Iowa Republicans at Friday’s event, with a little dig at frontrunners Ron DeSantis and Donald Trump.
“I don’t have a fancy bus. I don’t have a private plane, but we do have these amazing towels with my name on them for the Miami heat that I brought up here and the humidity,” Suarez said, to laughter.
Suarez entered the presidential race in June and touts Miami as a prosperous, flourishing city and a national model for how to get to a balanced federal budget.
