Bennet does well in his town hall, but how much good will it do him?

[TexasTowelie]

If you missed it, Michael Bennet did well in his CNN town hall with Dana Bash Thursday night. The question now is whether doing well will translate into doing much good for his campaign. And there, as the line goes, is the rub.

He was late to the race — delayed, of course, by his (successful) bout with prostate cancer — and he’s rushing to find a place among the 24 candidates that does not put him on the bottom rung of Nate Silver’s bottom tier, along with John Hickenlooper.

If Bennet doesn’t get a noticeable bump in the polls — meaning going from somewhere under 1 percent to anywhere consistently over 1 percent — he probably won’t make it onto the June debate stage in the first round. Even then, he might still have to meet the goal of 65,000 unique donors to qualify, which would be a monumental reach. For example, it took Cory Booker many months to get to 65,000. Bennet has been out there for weeks.

When Bennet first learned he had cancer, he told me it would be unlikely that he could qualify with so little time. Now, he seems desperate to get on the stage. The strange thing is that with two debates needed to accommodate a huge field, they’ll probably have less impact than you’d think. But not making the cutoff — when so many others will have —could be a problem. And missing the first two debates would make it much tougher to make the third debate.

Read more: https://www.coloradoindependent.com/2019/05/31/littwin-bennet-cnn-town-hall-bernie/

[LuvNewcastle]

1. I hope he makes it, but I would say that anyone who doesn't

make it into these first debates should probably go ahead and drop out. I don't think the media will give them the time of day.