Eight Republicans have qualified for Wednesday night’s first 2024 presidential primary debate in Milwaukee, the Republican National Committee announced Monday.

The list of debate participants includes Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, Former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, former Vice President Mike Pence, former United Nations Ambassador Nikki Haley, former Arkansas Gov. Asa Hutchinson, Sen. Tim Scott (R-S.C.), entrepreneur Vivek Ramaswamy and North Dakota Gov. Doug Burgum.

While former President Donald Trump met the requirements for the debate stage, he declined the invite and has refused to sign the RNC’s pledge to support the eventual nominee.

Candidates faced a steep climb to the debate stage. Candidates needed to garner donations from at least 40,000 national contributors and poll consistently above 1 percent in three national polls or two national polls and a state poll. Miami Mayor Francis Suarez, former Texas Rep. Will Hurd, businessperson Perry Johnson and conservative radio host Larry Elder all failed to hit the RNC’s debate qualification thresholds.

Johnson, who claimed on Friday that he had qualified for the debate, called the process to meet the criteria for the debate “corrupted.”

“The debate process has been corrupted, plain and simple,” Johnson said Monday night on X, the social media platform formerly known as Twitter. “Our campaign hit every metric put forward by the RNC and we have qualified for the debate. We’ll be in Milwaukee Wednesday and will have more to say tomorrow.”