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BYE! Democrats Plan To Cull The 2020 Field After The First Debates, Dump 50% Of Candidates

Emily Zanotti

It’s going to be a lot tougher to compete for the 2020 Democratic presidential nomination come September, according to Democratic National Committee guidelines released this week.

The DNC announced earlier this year that the guidelines for entering the first set of debates, set to take place over the course of two days in late June, would remain unchanged from previous cycles. But to qualify for the second series of debates, set to take place in September, the DNC is severely upping the ante.

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