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According to POLITICO’s tracking of public polling and delegate projections, five candidates have immediately qualified for the South Carolina debate: Joe Biden, Pete Buttigieg, Amy Klobuchar, Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren. Those same five are the only candidates who’ve qualified so far for the debate in Nevada on Feb. 19.

The South Carolina debate is hosted by CBS News and the Congressional Black Caucus Institute, in partnership with Twitter. It is set to air on CBS from 8 p.m. to 10 p.m.

The two billionaires in the race — Steyer and Bloomberg — have not met the qualification criteria for either the Nevada or South Carolina debates. The deadline to qualify for Nevada is Feb. 18.

Bloomberg is, however, on the precipice of making the stage in Nevada next week. The former New York City mayor, who has not yet taken part in a DNC-sanctioned debate, needs one more poll to qualify for next week’s debate in Nevada, and two more polls for the South Carolina debate.

The DNC scrapped a donor threshold in place for previous debates, which kept Bloomberg off the stage because he does not accept contributions.

Steyer has also not qualified for either debate. So far, nine polls have been released in the Nevada qualifying window, and eight of which have been national polls. The only poll that Steyer broke 10 percent in is a Las Vegas Review-Journal/AARP Nevada poll conducted by the Republican firm WPA Intelligence, in which he hit 11 percent. The DNC also announced Saturday that it would include the LVRJ/AARP toward qualifying for the Nevada debate. (The DNC reserved the right to retroactively add a poll from South Carolina or Nevada in its initial announcement for the Nevada debate, and did the same for the South Carolina-specific poll ahead of the Palmetto State debate.)

Steyer’s campaign maintains that he is better positioned in the next two states — Nevada and South Carolina. But there has been a polling drought in those two states, with the LVRJ/AARP poll as the only qualifying poll out of either state state released thus far in the Nevada qualifying window. Steyer called on the DNC to back-date the qualifying window to include polls from those states conducted earlier (which would likely qualify him for the debate), a plea his campaign said went unanswered by the DNC. The DNC has been hesitant to change qualification rules for a debate after they’re already been announced, rebuffing numerous other calls earlier in the cycle.

On Friday, the DNC also announced that the next debate after South Carolina will be on March 15 in Phoenix. The eleventh debate in Arizona will almost assuredly have a smaller stage than either the Nevada or South Carolina debate because it will take place at roughly the halfway point of the primary, when the field is expected to winnow.