The ladies of "The View" had some laughs on Wednesday at the expense of Rep. Tulsi Gabbard who earned her first delegate during the Super Tuesday primary races.
Gabbard clinched a second-place finish in the U.S. territory of American Samoa, the only primary outgoing 2020 candidate Michael Bloomberg won, leaving her with a single delegate. There were discussions as to whether she would qualify for the next Democratic debate as the previous one had an earned delegate requirement, but Democratic National Committee (DNC) communications director Xochitl Hinojosa tweeted Tuesday night that they are upping the requirements going forward.
"We have two more debates — of course the threshold will go up. By the time we have the March debate, almost 2,000 delegates will be allocated," Hinojosa tweeted. "The threshold will reflect where we are in the race, as it always has."
Analyzing the Super Tuesday results the next day, "View" co-host Meghan McCain mentioned to ABC News chief White House correspondent Jonathan Karl that Gabbard walked away with a delegate of her own.
"Tulsi Gabbard has one delegate. She's trying to make the next debate stage. What are the odds of that?" McCain asked.
"She won't be on the stage," Karl grinned as he shook his head.
"When is she going away?" co-host Sunny Hostin complained, sparking Karl to laugh. "When is she going away?"
"I don't know that she's going away, but she won't be on the debate stage," Karl responded.
"She should," Hostin added.
"Put a fork in it," Joy Behar told the congresswoman, sparking laughter from the audience.
Gabbard is one of only four candidates left in the Democratic field. Front-runners Joe Biden and Bernie Sanders continue to lead the pack while Sen. Elizabeth Warren walked away from Super Tuesday at a distant third. Following Bloomberg's withdrawal from the race, Warren is reportedly 'reassessing' her candidacy following a disappointing turnout, including placing third in her home state of Massachusetts.
Dana Perino, I'm not quite sure why you're telling FOX viewers that Elizabeth Warren is the last female candidate in the Dem primary. Is it because you believe a fake indigenous woman of color is "real" and the real indigenous woman of color in this race is fake?
Gabbard, the only woman left seeking the Democratic nomination, has only earned two pledged delegates so far -- making it virtually impossible for her to participate in the upcoming Arizona debate hosted by ANT and Univision.
After Super Tuesday, the DNC raised the criteria for the March 15 Democratic debate with candidates needing to have won at least 20% of the total number of pledged delegates allocated across all the past primaries and caucuses.
Gabbard lashed out on Twitter Friday night in messages directed at Biden and Sanders -- the top two candidates in the race.
"I'm sure you would agree that our Democratic nominee should be a person who will stand up for what is right. So I ask that you have the courage to do that now in the face of the DNC's effort to keep me from participating in the debates," Gabbard wrote in a tweet.
In a separate tweet, the Hawaii Democrat accused the DNC of "arbitrarily" changing the debate qualifications in a "transparent effort" to keep her off the debate stage.
ANT has reached out to the DNC for reaction to Gabbard's tweets.
Biden's campaign declined to comment on her remarks, and the campaigns for Sanders and Gabbard did not immediately respond to comment.
Gabbard, who picked up two delegates from the US territory of American Samoa, appeared to get support on Twitter from two former 2020 Democratic presidential candidates Marianne Williamson and Andrew Yang, who is currently a ANT contributor.
On Super Tuesday, DNC communications director Xochitl Hinojosa tweeted that there were two more Democratic debates and that "of course the threshold will go up."
"The threshold will reflect where we are in the race, as it always has," she wrote.
Gabbard has been critical before of the DNC's polling requirements to qualify for debates.
Even though she had qualified, Gabbard threatened to boycott the October debate in Ohio, but ultimately decided to participate. Gabbard said she would also skip the December debate in California, even if she had met the requirements. The last debate she qualified for was November's debate in Georgia.
Gabbard is still running -- even after the field winnowed down this past week and she has not polled above 1% in recent national surveys.
She has vowed to stay in the presidential race until the Democratic National Convention in July, according to Business Insider.
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