Will Mike Pence Fail to Qualify for GOP Primary Debates?

While Tucker Carlson likely threw the death blow that destroyed Mike Pence’s presidential campaign, the former vice president has failed spectacularly on his own accord.

Pence’s campaign has been such a disaster that he may fail to qualify for the GOP primary debates.

According to a New York Times report, Pence has yet to eclipse the 40,000 donor threshold to qualify for the debates.

The first televised GOP primary debate is August 23rd in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.

“An aide said he had not yet received donations from 40,000 donors, the threshold required to make the debate stage,” The New York Times reports.

The report also stated that Pence’s campaign has only raised $1.2 million.

In comparison, Donald Trump’s campaign raised $35 million in the second quarter and Gov. Ron DeSantis raised about $20 million.

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And it seems Mike Pence’s campaign has made little effort to push the former vice president to the debate stage.

The New York Times reports:

Unlike other candidates who have employed online gimmicks to secure 40,000 donors, Mr. Pence has invested little in seeking out contributors on the internet. His campaign has spent just $14,230 in advertising on Facebook and Google, according to data collected by Bully Pulpit Interactive, a marketing and communications agency, a figure that is one-fortieth of what has been spent on those platforms by Vivek Ramaswamy, a political newcomer who joined the race in February.

In an admission of its struggle to raise money online, the Pence campaign plans to spend a large bulk of what it has raised on a robust direct-mail program aimed at helping him accrue enough donors to qualify for the first debate.

The super PAC supporting Mr. Pence, Committed to America, had raised an additional $2.7 million during the fund-raising reporting period that ended June 30, an aide said. For a fund-raising vehicle that can accept unlimited contributions, such a total is quite small.

Other Republican presidential candidates have announced far larger fund-raising sums from the three-month reporting period; some of them, unlike Mr. Pence, were in the race for the entire quarter.

Pence certainly didn’t help himself at the Tucker Carlson-hosted presidential forum on Friday.

Carlson exposed Pence as a warmonger who’s not concerned about Americans and laughed in his face for hesitating to support removing electronic voting machines.

(WATCH) Tucker Carlson Laughs at Mike Pence Over Electronic Voting Machines

(WATCH) Tucker Carlson Laughs at Mike Pence Over Electronic Voting Machines