California Senator Kamala Harris made a splash with her well-received presidential campaign rollout in January but struggled to maintain her momentum.
That methodology is not unlike the lottery run by NBC before the first debate, but it looks like CNN has come up with a better mix of candidates when compared to the June lineups.
Sens. Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren will go head-to-head on July 30. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) once again missing out on the opportunity to face former Vice President Joe Biden.
Debate experts said Biden should be prepared for more criticism from other candidates seeking to knock him down a peg.
Harris owned the evening's most powerful moment, when she boldly confronted frontrunner Joe Biden on race and identity and called out his "hurtful" comments in praise of segregationist senators with whom he worked but disagreed.
It is also notable that with race playing such a big role not just this past week in politics with President Trump, but also in this Democratic campaign, that all of the candidates of color ended up being on stage together on the second night. Both raised more from California donors than anybody else in the Democratic primary field, the Free Beacon found.
The nightly lineups for CNN's two-night Democratic primary debate were set Thursday.
Dana Bash, Don Lemon and Jake Tapper will moderate the debates, according to CNN. Booker, Yang, Castro, Buttigieg, Klobuchar and O'Rourke were in a middle tier. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., Sen.
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A drawing will be held Thursday evening to determine which night Bullock will appear on the stage, along with nine other candidates chosen for that night.
Sanders and Warren will be joined by South Bend, Ind., Mayor Pete Buttigieg, former congressman Beto O'Rourke, Minnesota Sen.
But CNN hyped the potential face-offs to the highest drama, showing reporters shuffling names and then doing each drawing live (including from an overhead camera).
The candidates were drawn in three tiers based on polling to guarantee two of the top four candidates and five of the top 10 candidates will share the same stage.
The next night, with Biden and Harris will be former housing and human services secretary Julian Castro, entrepreneur Andrew Yang, New Jersey Sen.
Of the 1,923 big donors who raised money for former President Barack Obama and 2016 Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton, almost half have contributed to the current field of candidates. The only candidate who met one threshold but will not be on stage is Gravel, who met the grassroots fundraising threshold by achieving more than 65,000 unique donors.
Major candidates left off the stage include Massachusetts Rep. Seth Moulton and Miramar, Fla., Mayor Wayne Messam.
The entry qualifications for the third debate in September will roughly double and candidates will be required to make the cut in both polling and donors, not simply one category.
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