Castro becomes the 10th candidate to qualify for the fall debates

The former Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, Julián Castro, has qualified for the primary Democratic debates in the fall, the tenth candidate to do so.

Castro received 2 percent in a national CNN / SRSS survey released Tuesday. To participate in the debate, candidates must obtain at least 2% of the votes cast on four votes approved by the National Democratic Committee and donations of 130,000 unique donors. Castro had already obtained 2% in the previous three polls, and his campaign said that he had already reached the threshold of donors.

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Castro is the tenth candidate to qualify for the two fall debates, joining Joe Biden, Cory Booker, Pete Buttigieg, Kamala Harris, Amy Klobuchar, Beto O'Rourke, Bernie Sanders, Elizabeth Warren and Andrew Yang.

in the CNN Survey, Biden leading with 29%, followed by Sanders (15%) and Warren (14%).

Buttigieg and Harris are tied for fourth place with 5% each and O & # 39; Rourke has 3%, the last candidate above this mark.

Additional candidates only have 8 additional days to qualify for the September debate. The debate will take place on 12 September. The DNC said that it would limit the scene to 10 candidates. If another candidate qualifies, a second evening of debate will take place on September 13th.

Billionaire Tom Steyer is the next candidate most likely to qualify for the fall debates, requiring just an additional poll after wiping out the donor mark last week. Steyer was at 1 percent in the new CNN survey.

Representative Tulsi Gabbard (D-Hawaii) also participated in a qualifying poll on Tuesday, scoring 2% in CNN's national poll. This is her second eligible ballot, and she has already reached the threshold of donors.

Biden is up 7 points from another national survey conducted by the network at the end of June, which put it in first place with 22% support.

Tuesday's poll results also show a Harris regression. His support dropped 12 points from the June CNN survey, conducted in the days immediately following the first primary debate, when she focused on Biden.

It is expected that the two fall debates will have fewer participants than the summer debates, where 20 candidates spoke for two nights. But the debate of October could end up bigger than the debate in September. Candidates who qualify for September are automatically entered in the October debate, and those who missed September have more time to qualify for October.

The qualifying period for the October debate will end two weeks before this debate. The details of the October debate, including its date or host, have not yet been announced.

The CNN survey was conducted by telephone from August 15 to 18, with 1,001 adults. The margin of error is plus or minus 3.7 percentage points. For the subset of 402 Democratic registered voters with a democratic tendency, the margin of error is 6.1 percentage points.