Sahil Kapur

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The Democratic National Committee unveiled the list of candidates who will take part in the first presidential primary debates of the 2020 election.<div class="paywall-selector"></div><div class="paywall">
The debates, set to take place over two nights with 10 candidates on each stage, will take place in Miami on June 26 and 27. The group participating each night will be selected at random with a mix of high-polling and low-polling contenders.
Below are the candidates who have qualified based on the DNC rules.
<ul>
<li>Joe Biden, former vice president</li>
<li>Elizabeth Warren, U.S. senator from Massachusetts</li>
<li>Bernie Sanders, U.S. senator from Vermont</li>
<li>Pete Buttigieg, South Bend, Indiana, mayor</li>
<li>Kamala Harris, U.S. senator from California</li>
<li>Beto O’Rourke, former U.S. congressman from Texas</li>
<li>Cory Booker, U.S. senator from New Jersey</li>
<li>Kirsten Gillibrand, U.S. senator from New York</li>
<li>Michael Bennet, U.S. senator from Colorado</li>
<li>Amy Klobuchar, U.S. senator from Minnesota</li>
<li>Tim Ryan, U.S. congressman from Ohio</li>
<li>Eric Swalwell, U.S. congressman from California</li>
<li>Tulsi Gabbard, U.S. congresswoman from Hawaii</li>
<li>Jay Inslee, Washington governor</li>
<li>John Hickenlooper, former Colorado governor</li>
<li>Julian Castro, former secretary of Housing and Urban Development</li>
<li>Bill de Blasio, New York City mayor</li>
<li>John Delaney, former U.S. congressman from Maryland</li>
<li>Andrew Yang, entrepreneur</li>
<li>Marianne Williamson, spiritual healer</li>
</ul>
To qualify, the DNC required a threshold of at least 1% support in major polls, or 65,000 individual donations from at least 20 states. If more than 20 candidates qualified under at least one criteria, the DNC would decide who to cut.
The candidates who won’t make the first debate are Montana Governor Steve Bullock; Miramar, Wayne Messam, mayor of Miramar, Florida; and Congressman Seth Moulton of Massachusetts.
The DNC, which was eager not to be seen as stacking the deck against outsiders, said it was transparent about the standards.
“Each candidate was invited based on the qualification criteria agreed to by the DNC and NBC News, announced publicly in February,” the committee said in a statement.
<h2>Lineup for the First Democratic Debates</h2>
NBC has announced how it will divvy up the 20 Democratic candidates for the first debate of the 2020 election campaign.
The lineup for the first two-hour session on June 26 features Elizabeth Warren, Cory Booker, Beto O&#8217;Rourke, Amy Klobuchar, Julian Castro, Bill de Blasio, John Delaney, Tulsi Gabbard, Tim Ryan and Jay Inslee.
The lineup for the next night features Bernie Sanders, Kamala Harris, Joe Biden, Pete Buttigieg, Michael Bennet, Marianne Williamson, Eric Swalwell, Kirsten Gillibrand, Andrew Yang and John Hickenlooper.
The Democratic National Committee says it divided the candidates at random but ensured that contenders considered front-runners would not be stacked on one night to avoid the impression that one night was more important than the other.
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