Tulsi Gabbard qualifies for the democratic debate of October

2020 elections

The Hawaii congressman is the 12th presidential candidate to cross the threshold of the next debate.

Representative Tulsi Gabbard qualified for the first democratic presidential debate in October, making her the twelfth candidate to reach the thresholds of the Democratic National Committee.

Gabbard got 2% support in a survey conducted in New Hampshire by the University of Monmouth and released Tuesday. The Hawaii representative had already won 2% of the vote in three other DNC-approved surveys, and her campaign said she had already accumulated more than the 130,000 donors she needed to participate in the debate. .

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Gabbard will join Joe Biden, Cory Booker, Pete Buttigieg, Julian Castro, Kamala Harris, Amy Klobuchar, Beto O'Rourke, Tom Steyer, Bernie Sanders, Elizabeth Warren and Andrew Yang. on stage in October.

Neither Steyer nor Gabbard participated in the September debate, as both needed more time to reach the polls. It is not yet clear whether their inclusion will force two nights of debate in October. Previously, the DNC and its media partners wanted to avoid putting more than 10 people on stage at a time.

The spokespersons of the DNC and its media partners for the October debate, the New York Times and CNN, have not immediately responded to POLITICO 's questions on the issue of whether or not they should be involved. there would be two nights of debate. The next debate is scheduled for October 15 – with a second evening on October 16. if necessary.

No other candidate seems likely to join the 12 qualified people for the October debate. Marianne Williamson is the only other Democratic presidential candidate who has announced that the donor threshold has been exceeded, but she only achieved 2% of the vote in a vote approved by the DNC. The qualification for the October debate ends on October 1st.

The new polls that took place on Tuesday also allowed a number of high-achieving candidates to get a top spot for the November primary debate. slightly stricter criteria to do it on stage. To qualify for the month of November, candidates must meet a modified voting threshold: 3% on four polls approved by the DNC, or 5% on two approved polls of voters who voted early in the year. Iowa, New Hampshire, Nevada or South Carolina. The campaigns must also mobilize 165,000 donors, including 600 in 20 states, territories or Washington DC.

A University of Suffolk / USA Today poll in Nevada Earlier Tuesday, Biden, Buttigieg, Harris, Sanders and Warren called the November debate a day after the official announcement of the qualification rules. All five respondents received at least 3% of the survey results in Nevada, and each campaign previously indicated that it was well over 165,000 donors.

In the Nevada survey, Biden leads with 23%, followed by Warren, 19%. Sanders is at 14%, the last two-digit candidate.

Yang and Steyer also scored 3% in the poll in Nevada. This is Yang's second poll to qualify the November debate and Steyer's first.

The qualification for the November debate ends seven days before the debate. The date, time and place of the November debate have not yet been announced.

A survey conducted by the University of Suffolk / USA Today in Nevada was conducted among 500 members of the Democratic caucus from September 19 to 23. His margin of error is 4.4 points. The poll conducted by the University of Monmouth in New Hampshire polled 401 voters of the Democratic primary from September 17 to 21, with a margin of error of 4.9 percentage points.

Michael Calderone contributed to this report.