Presidential candidate Tulsi Gabbard has been joining in the protests in San Juan against the current governor of that territory, and she is calling for the governor to resign.
She sent out a number of tweets with videos, including an interview on CBSN (I assume that is CBS news online). She also breifly addresses the situation with Iran and the oil tankers.
Donor Count
Now at 102,957 unique donors, the campaign's goal is 105,000 by this Sunday. That will leave them a week-and-a-half to get to around 110,000 unique donors by the time of the next debate. Reaching that level will give them a reasonable chance of reaching the 130,000 unique donor level required for the September and October debates.
Late Breaking: 174 New Donors Away from 100,000!!!
Well, Tulsi was getting 2%-3% in recent polls that don't qualify for the September debates, and she had moved up to 1% in mainstream media polls that do qualify--but, two recent mainstream polls are not good.
Unique Donors
Tulsi now has 97,170 unique donors. Her daily rate of new donors has fluctuated day to day, with more than 800 yesterday, and about 500 in each of the two days before. She needs 657 per day until August 28 to reach the required 130,000 unique donors.
Update: Tulsi Now at 89,051 donors as of 10:46 PM Pacific Time according to the front page of Tulsi2020.com. That's a gain of about 2,000 in the past day--the pace continues.
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One hour before her debate appearance, Tulsi had 81,880 unique donors to her campaign. As of yesterday, she had 87,071, a rise of 5,191 donors in less than 3 days. A definite spike in her rate of gain.
As a backdrop to today's debate, Tulsi for the first time polled at 3% in a national poll. The Economist/YouGov from June 22-25, 1,500 US adults (see question 46):
Tulsi Polls 3% in Texas
The most recent statewide poll in Texas, from University of Texas/Texas Tribune, shows Tulsi polling at 3%. This was a poll of 1,200 people, which indicates that about 36 of those people polled for her. Not too shabby! She was well ahead of Booker, Gillibrand, Klobuchar, and Inslee who polled at 1%, and Yang and Williamson were at 0% in the poll--and she was only a bit behind Harris, who polled at 5%.
As has been noted in another essay, Tulsi will appear in the first night of Democratic debates with a fairly bland array of debate opponents.
The only relative heavyweight in the first debate night will be Elizabeth Warren. Speculation from another essay on this site says that this is an effort to shine a light on a sheepdog candidate--which might very well be true.
Well, the Democratic war on progressives was on full display this past weekend as Tulsi spoke at the California Democratic Convention on Saturday along with other Democratic luminaries and candidates. Tulsi's speech was messed with--of course--unlike every other person's speech.
