The Democratic debate deadline has officially passed, and the 2020 race has gotten this much slimmer
There are well over 20 candidates in the Democratic primary for 2020 president but you’ll only see 10 take the stage for the third democratic debate on September 12, 2019. That’s because, in order to qualify for the third debate, candidates had to collect contributions from 130,000 individual donors and attract two percent support in four qualifying national or early-state polls released between June 28 and August 28.
Three candidates met the donor threshold but didn’t quite nab the polling threshold: philanthropist Tom Steyer, Representative Tulsi Gabbard, and author Marianne Williamson,. They have until August 28 at midnight for any polling to be released securing their position in the debates. That leaves seven more candidates who were in the second debate but won’t be in the third: Senator Kirsten Gillibrand,
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