United States: A dozen Democrat candidates aspiring to the presidency of the United States (USA) have until today to meet the qualification requirements for the third debate of the party, in which another ten contenders have already secured their presence, Prensa Latina publishes.

Former Vice President Joe Biden; Senators Bernie Sanders, Elizabeth Warren, Kamala Harris, Amy Klobuchar and Cory Booker; the mayor of South Bend, Indiana, Pete Buttigieg; former Secretary of Housing Julián Castro; Former Representative Beto O'Rourke and businessman Andrew Yang are the candidates who guaranteed to be at the event.

If case they are the only participants in the discussion, because no other of the 21 candidates can meet the requirements established for this debate by the National Democrat Committee (DNC), the event to be held in Houston, Texas, will only take place on September 12.

But if some other White House candidate achieves the necessary requirements on Wednesday, the discussion that will be broadcast on ABC News and Univision television networks will be divided into two nights, on September 12 and 13.

In the previous two debates, which took place in June, in Florida, and in July, in Michigan, the classification criteria were less demanding and 20 Democrats took the stage to share their criteria on key issues at the domestic and international levels.

For these events, candidates had to receive one percent support in three surveys or accumulate 65 thousand taxpayers.

However, the DNC now imposed more stringent criteria, aimed at reducing the number of participants in the midst of a field of contestants that is still too broad, despite several resignations in recent weeks.

To be in Houston, candidates for the Democratic nomination ahead of the 2020 elections must obtain two percent support in at least four polls and also have more than 130,000 donors in their campaign, including 400 unique contributors in At least 20 states.

According to press reports, the candidates who still have possibilities to be included in the coming debate are the liberal billionaire Tom Steyer, the last to join the race for the White House, and the representative Tulsi Gabbard, who already met the threshold necessary from donors.

Steyer needs a minimum of two percent support in at least one survey, and Gabbard in two, to be included in the discussion next month, and the expected publication of two new surveys on Wednesday morning could give them that last boost.

But beyond the number of people who come to meet at the event in Texas, the race in the blue party increasingly seems to focus on only three figures: Biden, Warren and Sanders, who march at the head of most surveys

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