The Democratic National Committee is raising the bar for which candidates can get on the debate stage in November
For the fifth presidential debate, set for November, candidates will have to reach 3% in at least four DNC-approved polls of Democratic voters nationally or in one of the four early-voting states -- Iowa, New Hampshire, Nevada and South Carolina. That's a 1 percentage point increase over the threshold for the September and October debates.The DNC is also giving candidates a new option: Instead, they can reach at least 5% in two polls of the early-voting states.
Because of those higher thresholds, the third Democratic debate -- held earlier this month in Houston -- was the first one conducted in just one night rather than two. The field of candidates who qualified to appear on stage was halved to 10. With millions of viewers, the debates have proven an important opportunity for Democrats to stand out -- and have also served a a cut-off line for voters who are trying to narrow what started as a field with more than 20 candidates.
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