With ten Democrats qualifying for the next Democratic debate in Houston on September 12, the podium positions announced on Thursday will not only put Joe Biden and Elizabeth Warren on stage with each other for the first time, but they will be side by side and center stage in the third Democratic debate for 2020.

The Houston debate, sponsored by ABC News and Univision, is the first to only be a one-night gathering, as the earlier debates in Miami and Detroit involved twenty Democrats debating over two nights.

The ten candidates for this third debate are Biden, Warren, Bernie Sanders, Kamala Harris, Pete Buttigieg, Andrew Yang, Cory Booker, Beto O'Rourke, Amy Klobuchar, and Julian Castro.

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Angie McBrayer, ex-wife of James Aaron McBrayer, leans her head on her son Sam McBrayer as she and her three children and two grandchildren (from left) Jackson McBrayer, 3, Piper Jae McBrayer, 7, Katy Isaza, and Jordan McBrayer, visit the grave of James McBrayer, Thursday, November 20, 2025, in Tifton. He died after being restrained by Tift County sheriff's deputies on April 24, 2019. His ex-wife witnessed the arrest and said she thought the deputies were being rough but did not imagine that McBrayer would die. (Hyosub Shin/AJC)

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