[What the Democratic candidates have to do to win Tuesday’s debate]Thanks to another tightening of the rules by the Democratic National Committee, just eight candidates appear to have qualified for the November debate so far. The DNC will officially release the list of qualified candidates around that date, a week in advance of the debate. Each candidate who has met the polling threshold also has enough donors, according to their campaigns. Neither candidate has hit 3 percent in the last 13 qualifying polls. Even billionaire activist Tom Steyer, who qualified for the October debate by blanketing early states with ads, has yet to hit 5 percent in any qualifying early-state poll.

Source: Washington Post October 14, 2019 23:15 UTC