Democrats want Bernie Sanders to replace Hillary Clinton if health woes force her out of the race, according to a new poll that comes just more than a week before she and Donald Trump meet in their first one-on-one televised debate.

That showdown won’t feature any third-party candidates, as the Commission on Presidential Debates ruled yesterday that both Libertarian candidate Gary Johnson and the Green Party’s Jill Stein failed to reach the 15 percent benchmark required to earn a spot on the first debate stage on Sept. 26

Former Massachusetts Gov. William F. Weld — Johnson’s running mate — will also be locked out of the only vice presidential debate on Oct. 4.

Johnson, in a statement, railed against the commission as a tool of the two-party political system bent on keeping out independent challengers.

“Even 9 percent represents 13 million voters, more than the total population of Ohio and most other states,” said Johnson. “Yet, the Republicans and Democrats are choosing to silence the candidate preferred by those millions of Americans.”

Stein will press on, campaigning in Massachusetts tomorrow with stops at Wheaton College and Northampton.

Meanwhile, Sanders was the top choice of 48 percent of Democrats to replace Clinton if she were too sick to continue campaigning, in a new Rasmussen poll released yesterday.

Sanders was far and away the number one pick, followed by Vice President Joe Biden at 22 percent. Virginia U.S. Sen. Tim Kaine — the actual replacement for Clinton if she were elected president and unable to perform the duties at some point in her term — received just 14 percent.

Nine percent picked someone else.

But Democrats also think the Clinton health scare has been blown way out of proportion, the poll found.

Sixty-three percent of Democrats said there’s too much media coverage of Clinton’s pneumonia woes.

Sanders is scheduled to campaign for Clinton today in battleground Ohio, hitting rallies at the University of Akron and Kent State University. The Clinton campaign is hoping Sanders’ popularity with millennials with translate into an infusion of young votes for the former secretary of state, who is struggling with the demographic compared to how President Obama dominated the youth vote in 2008 and 2012.

Perhaps further illustrating Democrats’ reluctance to fully embrace Clinton, First Lady Michelle Obama was met with chants of “four more years!” during her first post-convention campaign appearance in Virginia.

Trump has campaign events in Houston and Colorado Springs today. Clinton will speak at the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation Dinner in Washington tonight.