The candidates who will appear on the two stages over the two nights of the second Democratic presidential primary debate on July 30th and 31st are now set after a prime-time drawing event on CNN last night. As in the first debate last month, the 20 candidates who qualified are being spread over two nights, selected for each stage by a random drawing.
The first night will feature top tier candidates Senator Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, the two leading progressive figures in the field. The second night will feature a rematch of former Vice President Joe Biden and Senator Kamala Harris, after Harris aggressively went after him in the first debate over his opposition to bussing in the 1970s. There will be one new candidate among the 20, Montana Governor Steve Bullock, who didn't qualify for the first debate. He's taking the slot of Rep. Eric Swalwell, who recently dropped out of the race.
The full lineups for the two nights are:
July 30th: Sanders, Warren, Bullock, South Bend, Indiana, Mayor Pete Buttigieg, former Rep. John Delaney, former Colorado Governor John Hickenlooper; Senator Amy Klobuchar, former Rep. Beto O'Rourke, Rep. Tim Ryan and author Marianne Williamson.
July 31: Biden, Harris, Senator Cory Booker, New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio, Senator Michael Bennett, former San Antonio Mayor and Obama Cabinet member Julian Castro, Senator Kirsten Gillibrand, Rep. Tulsi Gabbard, Washington Governor Jay Inslee, and entrepreneur Andrew Yang.
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