It is now clear that the party won't let me be a candidate -- and I can't ask people to support a campaign that I know can't even get before the members of the Democratic Party; or to ask my team or my family to make a sacrifice even greater than what they've already made.

Larry Lessig

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I’m confident there are about 20 ... seriously considering it, there are some who will do it as a matter of principle; one has already said he will. But most will be in the situation where they won’t make that sacrifice unless there a reason to sacrifice.

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From the start, it was clear that getting into the Democratic debates was the essential step in this campaign. I may be known in tiny corners of the tubes of the Internets, but I am not well-known to the American public generally, our only chance to make this issue central to the 2016 presidential election was to be in those debates.