Night Two: June 27Michael Bennet, senator from ColoradoJoseph R. Biden Jr., former vice presidentPete Buttigieg, mayor of South Bend, Ind. A mixture of senior advisers, campaign managers and press representatives were in the room for the drawing. The names were drawn from two boxes wrapped in white gift wrap with gold polka dots. The names of the candidates who had received an average of 2 percent support in polls or higher were in one box, and the other candidates were in the other. Word about how exactly the group would be divided came one day after the Democratic National Committee made clear which members of the 23-person field had qualified for the debates — and which had not.

Source: New York Times June 14, 2019 16:28 UTC