Democratic Debate October Qualifications

If more than 10 candidates qualify for the debate there will be a second night on october 16.

Democratic debate october qualifications. Seven candidates have qualified. Candidates need to reach 2 in at least four dnc approved polls and receive campaign contributions from at least 130 00 unique donors with at least 400 individual donors from 20 states by august. There are so many democratic presidential candidates and debates that it can be hard to keep track of who s in and who s out. Billionaire activist tom steyer on sunday appeared to be the 11th candidate to qualify for the october democratic presidential debate his campaign announced.

Steyer received 2 percent support the democratic national committee s threshold for poll qualification in a new cbs news yougov poll surveying nevada giving him the required four polls at 2 percent or higher he needed to qualify. Steyer s qualification means that there will be two nights of debate in october instead of one. Even as democrats plan for another two night debate ordeal in october the national party s qualifications for the november debate are a bit tougher which means a few of the lower polling. Unless there s a groundswell of support for the underdogs democratic presidential frontrunner joe biden will face challengers elizabeth warren and bernie sanders along with nine other candidates.

Tulsi gabbard is also close to securing a spot. Because only 10 of the candidates qualified in september there will only be a single night of. So we re keeping track for you. This gave candidates who did not qualify for the september debate more time to qualify for the october debate.

Biden booker buttigieg castro harris klobuchar o rourke sanders warren and yang qualified before august 22 while steyer and gabbard qualified on september 8 and september 24 respectively.