Candidates will convene at Otterbein University for the debate hosted by CNN and The New York Times, starting 8 p.m. ET.
The debate will be broadcast on CNN and can be live-streamed at CNN.com and nytimes.com, through the apps for both media outlets and Facebook.
Here are the candidates who qualified, as they will stand on stage from left to right:
Tulsi Gabbard (congresswoman from Hawaii)Tom Steyer (business executive)Cory Booker (senator from New Jersey)Kamala Harris (senator from California)Bernie Sanders (senator from Vermont)Joe Biden (former vice president)Elizabeth Warren (senator from Massachusetts)Pete Buttigieg (mayor of South Bend, Indiana)Andrew Yang (entrepreneur)Beto O’Rourke (former congressman from Texas)Amy Klobuchar (senator from Minnesota)Julián Castro (former housing secretary)
The front runner remains Biden, but he will be sharing center stage with Warren, who has made tremendous gains in polls since the last debate. Warren is surging as another top-tier progressive candidate, Sanders, seeks to keep the momentum of his campaign going after suffering a heart attack earlier this month.
Biden in particular will certainly be in the spotlight for how he responds to Trump’s request for Ukraine to investigate him for corruption, the matter which led House Democrats to open the impeachment inquiry.
Entering the 2020 debate stage for the first time is former hedge fund manager and billionaire Democratic donor Tom Steyer, who founded the Need to Impeach movement two years ago, long before Congress was willing to start in impeachment inquiry on Trump. Steyer will have plenty to say in favor of removing Trump, but has been accused of trying to buy his way to debates through measures including buying TV ads.
“If the worst thing anyone says about me is that I put my time and my heart and soul and my money where my values are, then I’ll accept that.,” Steyer said in an MSNBC interview on Sunday.
Gabbard, who did not qualify for the third Democratic debate, last week accused the Democratic National Committee and “corporate media” of “rigging the election” and complained about polling for qualifying candidates. Gabbard said she was considering boycotting the debate, but on Monday morning tweeted, “I will be attending the debate.”
The debate will be moderated by CNN anchors Erin Burnett and Anderson Cooper, as well as by the Times’ national editor Marc Lacey.
The third debate in September had 10 candidates. To qualify for Tuesday’s debate, candidates had to garner at least 2 percent in four polls approved by the Democratic National Committee and get at least 130,000 individual donations by October 1.
With a dozen candidates, Tuesday’s showdown will be the largest presidential primary debate in U.S. history.
