Mayor joins low-pollers in debate

Mayor de Blasio has a seat at the kids’ table.

Hizzoner will be slugging it out with nine other lowpolling White House wannabes in the first Democratic presidential debate of the 2020 campaign, party officials announced Friday.

With the largest field of primary candidates in party history, the Democratic National Committee was forced to split up the debate into two nights — and de Blasio is making the first one on June 26 along with Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren, New Jersey Sen. Cory Booker, Minnesota Sen. Amy Klobuchar, ex-Texas Rep. Beto O’Rourke, Ohio Rep. Tim Ryan, Hawaii Rep. Tulsi Gabbard, ex-Maryland Rep. John Delaney, Washington Gov. Jay Inslee and former Housing and Urban Development Secretary Julian Castro.

With the exception of Warren, all first night candidates are polling below 5% in most recent surveys. De Blasio, meanwhile, has struggled to court more than 1% in most polls.

Warren, whose “I have a plan for that” mantra has increasingly begun to strike a chord with voters, placed third at 15% in the latest Quinnipiac University poll released earlier this week.

The first debate will be hosted at the Adrienne Arsht Center in Miami and moderated by NBC and MSNBC anchors Lester Holt, Savannah Guthrie, Chuck Todd, Rachel Maddow and José DíazBalart.

The second debate, on June 27, will be hosted in the same location and feature former Vice President Joe Biden and Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders — the two highest-polling candidates so far.

Sanders and Biden will be joined by New York Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand, California Sen. Kamala Harris, South Bend, Ind., Mayor Pete Buttigieg, California Rep. Eric Swalwell, former Colorado Gov. John Hickenlooper, Colorado Sen. Michael Bennet, author Marianne Williamson and businessman Andrew Yang.