Who Will Be Onstage For The October Debate?

Candidates had to meet both a polling and a fundraising requirement: reaching at least 2% in four DNC-approved separate national or early state polls, in addition to getting donations from a minimum of 130,000 unique donors.

Photos: Air National Guard (Bullock); Amr Alfiky/NPR (Sanders); Department of Housing and Urban Development (Castro); Getty Images (Messam and Steyer); Olivia Sun for NPR (Buttigieg); U.S. Military (Sestak); U.S. House (Delaney, Gabbard, O'Rourke and Ryan); U.S. Senate (Bennet, Booker, Harris, Klobuchar and Warren); White House (Biden); Courtesy of Andrew Yang; Courtesy of Marianne Williamson

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