Month: October 2019

The Democratic Presidential debate series continue but with a smaller cast of candidates. Back in July there were twenty-four Democratic presidential candidates. The crowd has slimmed down so perhaps it is appropriate to refresh the list of who is in and who is out. Listed below are the candidates who qualified for the October 15th debate. These debates are conducted using criteria adopted by the Democratic National Committee. The qualification criteria for the upcoming November 20th debate was recently announced.

The current Democratic contenders are (in alphabetical order):
Joe Biden, former Vice President of the United States
Cory Booker, Senator from New Jersey
Pete Buttigieg, Mayor of South Bend, Indiana
Julian Castro, former U.S. Secretary of Housing & Urban Development
Tulsi Gabbard, Congresswoman from Hawaii
Kamala Harris, Senator from California
Amy Klobuchar, Senator from Minnesota
Bernie Sanders, Senator from Vermont
Tom Steyer, former hedge fund executive
Elizabeth Warren, Senator from Massachusetts
Andrew Yang, tech company executive

According to an October 24 story in Nate Silver’s FiveThirtyEight.com three, Beto O’Rourke, Julian Castro and Tulsi Gabbard, have yet to qualify for the November debate. (Beto withdrew November 1.)

The contenders who did not meet the requirements for the October debate were:
Michael Bennet, Senator from Colorado
Steve Bullock, Governor of Montana
John Delaney, former Congressman from Maryland
Wayne Messam, Mayor of Miramar, Florida
Joe Sestak, former Congressman from Pennsylvania
Marianne Williamson, author

The candidates who have withdrawn are:
Beto O’Rourke, former Congressman from Texas, withdrew November 1, 2019
Tim Ryan, Congressman from Ohio; withdrew October 24, 2019
Bill de Blasio, Mayor of New York City; withdrew September 20, 2019
Kirsten Gillibrand, Senator from New York; withdrew August 28, 2019
Seth Moulton, Congressman from Massachusetts; withdrew August 23, 2019
Jay Inslee, Governor of Washington State; withdrew August 21, 2019
John Hickenlooper, former Governor of Colorado; withdrew August 15, 2019
Eric Swalwell, Congressman from California; withdrew July 8, 2019

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