Which candidates made the 3rd Democratic Debate?

The candidates and the time of the 3rd Democratic Debate. ABC News. 

Ten candidates will vie for the nomination at the 3rd Democratic Debate on September 12th. The Hill. The center of the stage will be held by the frontrunners. Joe Biden, Elizabeth Warren, Bernie Sanders and Kamala Harris will be at the center. Long shot candidate Andrew Yang and Mayor Pete Buttgeig will attend as well. Four other candidates made it in as well, including Corey Booker, Robert Francis "Beto" O'Rourke, Juan Castro and Amy Klobuchar. The debate will be a one night affair and will be three hours long instead of two. 11 other candidates did not qualify for the debate and will not participate. One of which, Kirsten Gillibrand, has already dropped out. 

My Comment:

As always I plan to live tweet the debate. However, given how amazingly long the debate is going to be, 3 hours, I will probably not be able to live tweet the entire thing. As always, you can follow along on Twitter or Gab. 

I'm fairly disappointed that a couple of the candidates didn't make the debate. It seems clear that Tulsi Gabbard was screwed by the DNC. She qualified by donors but did not qualify in the polls the DNC chose. She did qualify in other polls but was not allowed to debate. Though Gabbard is a far leftist in pretty much every area, she is pretty good in foreign policy and would have been nice to see her push back against the other candidates. 

The other person I wish would be there is Marianne Williamson. Williamson is a kooky English teacher spiritualist type and though I don't agree with any of her policies she is extremely entertaining. She would have the three hour slog a lot easier to get through. 

As for the other candidates it's do or die time for many of them. I would say that only Joe Biden, Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren are in good shape, but all of them are vulnerable to a bad debate performance. Kamala Harris has to have a good debate performance to make up for the last one. Another one bad as the one she had in the last round will completely sink her chances. And the rest desperately need a boost in the polls that only a debate could provide. 

 I do think it is going to be better with fewer candidates. Having a two night debate was pretty grueling and with so many candidates in the field it was pretty impossible to keep everyone straight. It should also cut down on the interruptions and stupidity that we saw in the first two debates. 

Finally, I'm not expecting too much in the way of tough questions. Nobody is going to ask the candidates how much their policies are going to cost or how they will be paid for. Nobody will ask what they will do if the country doesn't go along with their policies. And nobody will call out their obvious racism and prejudice. ABC might be better than CNN and NBC, but not by much...