The RNC set a number of benchmarks a campaign needs to hit to make the August 23 debate.
Candidates must poll at 1% or higher in three polls with over 800 likely Republican voters.
Not many polls have over 800 likely Republican voters, so that'll be harder to hit than some expect.
That's a high bar for some campaigns in the increasingly busy bottom of the race, but that's not even the number that's going to screw them.
Chris Christie, Donald Trump, Mike Pence, and Doug Burgum will all in the GOP primary by the end of the week.
Persons:
—, That's, that's, Gallup, Chris Christie, Donald Trump, Mike Pence, Doug Burgum, Wade Vandervort, Andrew Caballero, Getty, Scott Olson, Stephen Yang, Nate Cohn, FiveThirtyEight's Nathaniel Rakich, Geoffrey Skelley, Nikki Haley, South, Tim Scott, Sen, Jim DeMint, Ehrhardt, Trump, DeSantis, Vivek Ramaswamy —
Organizations:
RNC, Republican, Service, Republican National Committee, Republicans, Morning, New York Times, GOP, South Carolina, AP, North Dakota Gov
Locations:
Iowa, New Hampshire , Nevada, South Carolina, FiveThirtyEight, Columbia