Tonight marks the deadline for candidates to qualify for the next Democratic debate, to be hosted by ABC News and Univision on September 12, and so far it looks like 10 will qualify. Political pund…
From left: Castro, Booker, Biden, Harris, Yang, Koobuchar, Buttigieg, Sanders, Warren and O’RourkeRoughly speaking, the qualifications for the debate are that candidates draw at least 2 percent in four qualifying polls released between June 28 and August 28 and that they draw a minimum of 130,000 individual donors.
Tom Steyer, the billionaire philanthropist, was the closest to making it into the next debate, but he failed to register at least 2 percent in the latest polls. Contenders such as Marianne Williamson, Tulsi Gabbard and Kirsten Gillibrand also are struggling to qualify.The Democratic National Committee made the rules more stringent for the third debate, with hopes of narrowing the field.
If more than 10 candidates qualify for Round 3, the debate will be split up into two consecutive nights — September 12 and 13 — with candidates assigned to each night bySteyer and some of the other candidates have been complaining about the DNC’s debate criteria, but failure to make this next event doesn’t necessarily doom their campaigns. The criteria for the fourth debate, to be held some time in October with a media sponsor to be announced, is similar.
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