Eight candidates for the Republican presidential nomination, all unindicted to date, hit the polling and fundraising requirements needed to qualify for the Fox cable propaganda network debate slated for Wednesday. We’ll have live commentary here at National Zero for the 9 p.m. ET Wednesday, so make sure you know the players:
Doug Burgum: the Eugene Levy lookalike who currently serves as the governor of North Dakota.
Chris Christie: the Jersey giant will not hesitate to attack Trump, a different debater, or the Green Room cheese board.
Ron DeSantis: sitting in the center as the highest polling candidate, he’s about to learn what it feels like to be Scott Walker.
Nikki Haley: the former governor of South Carolina who served Donald Trump as his UN Ambassador. And then stabbed him in the back by challenging his Divine Right to Ascendency.
Asa Hutchinson: Mike Pence with a personality. A non-insane former Republican governor of Arkansas who doesn’t stand a chance.
Mike Pence: why he’s still hanging around with Trump’s Republican Party is anyone’s guess.
Vivek Ramaswamy: 37-year-old political dilettante who’s a combination of Andrew Yang and Kari Lake. A 9/11 truther who is certain to point out how old everyone else is.
Tim Scott: South Carolina Senator who accounts for 20% of the Black Republican Congressional Caucus. Attracting attention from the evangelical Right.