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Speaker 1: Hey, get a load of this. All seven of the

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Speaker 1: Democrat presidential candidates a qualified for the next debate on Thursday,

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Speaker 1: have written to the d n C asking for special treatment,

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Speaker 1: not for themselves, but for two candidates who didn't qualify.

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Speaker 1: The letter demands the d n C change its rules

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Speaker 1: on who's eligible in order to avow Corey Booker and

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Speaker 1: Julian Kestro to participate even though they failed to meet

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Speaker 1: the standards. Now here's the dilemma. Democrats spent months bragging

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Speaker 1: about how diverse their field was, but even before the

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Speaker 1: first primary, Democrat voters already eliminated all of the minorities,

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Speaker 1: with the exception of Andrew Yang. So now it's time

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Speaker 1: to beg even though they are unqualified by the very

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Speaker 1: rules the d n C put in place. Corey Booker

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Speaker 1: and Julian Castro want in. They want their quota, they

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Speaker 1: want affirmative action, they want a special preference. But the

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Speaker 1: d n C leadership is pushing back. They're insisting that

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Speaker 1: the standards are the standards. It's about merit, it's not

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Speaker 1: about feel good diversity objectives. The d n C doesn't

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Speaker 1: care if the debate stage has just a bunch of

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Speaker 1: white guys and gals with a lot of money, plus

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Speaker 1: Andrew Yang. They say, screw affirmative action, screw special preferences,

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Speaker 1: and screw quotas and by the way, Corey and Julie

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Speaker 1: unscrew you too. I mean, that's what they're saying now,

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Speaker 1: and the irony is delicious. Love it.