Who Might Make The Democratic Debate Stage?

[Sherman A1]

https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/who-might-make-the-democratic-debate-stage/

Presidential primary debates are a major media spectacle in American politics, so candidates, naturally, want to participate lest they become irrelevant. And with a historically large Democratic field in the 2020 cycle, the race is on to qualify for the first two debates, which are taking place this summer.1

Democratic hopefuls have two ways of getting onto the debate stage, according to a February news release from the Democratic National Committee. They can earn at least 1 percent of the vote in three different national or early-state polls conducted by qualifying pollsters, or they can receive donations from at least 65,000 unique donors, with at least 200 individual donors in at least 20 different states. And as you can see in the table below, of the 16 major candidates FiveThirtyEight is tracking — plus former Vice President Joe Biden, who hasn’t yet entered the race but is widely expected to — 15 have already met at least one of those two criteria, according to our research.

According to the chart at the link the candidates below are the only ones who have qualified via both methods (poling and number of donors) as of 4/19/19

Pete Buttigieg
Kamala Harris
Beto O’Rourke
Bernie Sanders
Elizabeth Warren
Andrew Yang

[GemDigger]

1. I was wondering about this earlier, thanks for the link.

[Sherman A1]

2. My pleasure

Just tripped over it on Facebook.

[left-of-center2012]

3. It'll be a crowded stage

As stated ...
“... of the 16 major candidates FiveThirtyEight is tracking ... 15 have already met at least one of those two criteria, according to our research.”

[TwilightZone]

5. Some debates will split them up.

The Miami debate, for example, is scheduled for two nights, 6/26 and 6/27, with up to 10 candidates each night.

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2020-election/nbc-news-first-democratic-debate-set-miami-june-26-27-n988481

[mcar]

4. I donated to Julian Castro for this very reason

He deserves to be on the stage.

[Kahuna7]

6. I saw on twitter that Tulsi qualified. nt

[Indygram]

7. Klobuchar and Booker haven't qualified yet but Yang and Gabbard did?

That seems kinda off.

[Agschmid]

8. It says "via both"