Presidential races are jokes. 

“Lessig suspended his presidential campaign on Nov. 2, 2015.... He cited his inability to get one per cent support in the polls and being unrepresented in the debates.... In an essay in the New York Times he further discussed the DNC's change of the one per cent rule from "within six weeks" to "earlier than six weeks" to a "five-week period (that) just happened to be crafted to exclude the third poll finding me at one per cent".”

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lawrence_Lessig_presidential_campaign,_2016#Out