With the Democratic candidate pool cut in half, from 20 down to 10, Thursday`s third Democratic Debate will be the first time all of the top contenders in the 2020 Democratic presidential race will be on the same stage. At the center of the stage, the front-runner in national polls, former Vice President Joe Biden, will be sandwiched between his two chief progressive foes in Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren and Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders. Meanwhile, seven other candidates mired in the single digits in polls -- California Sen. Kamala Harris, South Bend, Indiana, Mayor Pete Buttigieg, New Jersey Sen. Cory Booker, former Texas Rep. Beto O`Rourke, entrepreneur Andrew Yang, former Housing and Urban Development Secretary Julin Castro and Minnesota Sen. Amy Klobuchar -- will all look for ways to break out, with the first states set to vote in the 2020 primary in less than five months.

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