The Democratic National Committee has announced that twenty presidential candidates have met the threshold for inclusion in the first Democratic presidential debates, to be held June 26 and 27 in Miami, Florida. A random drawing will be used to split the candidates into two groups, with ten appearing on each of the two nights. (As an additional measure, candidates averaging over 2% in qualifying polls will be split evenly between those nights.)
The 20 qualifying candidates are:
• Michael Bennet
• Joe Biden
• Cory Booker
• Pete Buttigieg
• Julián Castro
• Bill de Blasio
• John Delaney
• Tulsi Gabbard
• Kirsten Gillibrand
• Kamala Harris |
• John Hickenlooper
• Jay Inslee
• Amy Klobuchar
• Beto O'Rourke
• Tim Ryan
• Bernie Sanders
• Eric Swalwell
• Elizabeth Warren
• Marianne Williamson
• Andrew Yang |
To qualify, candidates were required to meet a threshold of at least 1% support in three qualifying polls or receive campaign donations from at least 65,000 individual donors.