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Article snippet: Ten Democrats running for president are likely to have qualified for the primary debate next month after the Democratic National Committee’s (DNC) deadline to meet its criteria passed on Wednesday night. That is half of the 20 Democrats who took part in the two previous debates after the DNC doubled the thresholds to make the stage. It will likely mean the debate will take over only one night, on Sept. 12. The previous two debates in June and July were spread over a total of four nights, as the DNC has capped the maximum number of candidates who can debate at once at 10. For the September debate, the DNC required each candidate to reach 130,000 unique donors and at least 2 percent support in four DNC-approved polls to qualify. Ten candidates have met those requirements: Former Vice President MORE; and former Housing and Urban Development Secretary Julián Castro. The 10 remaining candidates in the Democratic field appear likely to have failed to make the stage: billionaire hedge fund executive MORE. The DNC will make a final determination on which candidates make the stage after a certification process. Candidates who fell short for the September event could still qualify for the October debate, which will have the same criteria. The qualifying window for both events opened on June 28, but a DNC memo sent to the campaigns earlier this month said that the deadline to qualify for the October debate will be two weeks before it begins. That would give candidates more... Link to the full article to read more