Edited sentence: Battenfeld accused the Democratic party of "meddling" in the 2020 race by deciding which polls are qualifying and by preventing lower polling candidates from speaking at television debates months before the first votes are cast.One day before the end of the qualification period for the December debate, Boston Globe's Joe Battenfeld wrote that Gabbard and several other candidates "never had much of a chance" to qualify or the December debate because of the low number of DNC-certified polls after the November debate