Fast Facts About Democratic Presidential Debate Number 5
While Wednesday should be a very interesting day for impeachment hearing news (Amb. Sondland will have decided between going to jail or pissing off Trump), save time for yet another Democratic debate.
Here’s what you need to know.
When: Coverage starts at 5 pm PST on Wednesday, Nov. 20. The debate will run from 6 to 8 pm PST.
Where: It’s being held in Atlanta, and you can watch it on washingtonpost.com (paywall) or on MSNBC (cable and streaming).
Moderators: Rachel Maddow, host of MSNBC's "The Rachel Maddow Show"; Andrea Mitchell, host of MSNBC's "Andrea Mitchell Reports" and NBC News' chief foreign affairs correspondent; Kristen Welker, NBC News' White House correspondent; and Ashley Parker, a White House reporter for The Washington Post.
Who: Ten candidates have qualified to be onstage, hitting at least 3 percent in four approved polls or at least 5 percent in two early-state polls, plus bringing in donations from at least 165,000 unique donors.
No-Gos: Former congressman Beto O’Rourke has dropped out, and former HUD secretary Julián Castro, failed to hit the required polling levels. Steve Bullock, Michael Bennet, Marianne Williamson, John Delaney, Joe Sestak, and Wayne Messam will be missing once again.
Not Yet: Also not appearing on stage will be late comers Deval Patrick, former Governor of Massachusetts and Michael Bloomberg, the billionaire former Mayor of New York, who hasn’t declared yet, but is submitting his name to be on the ballot in some early deadline states.
On stage (from left to right):
(Links go to campaign websites)
Sen. Cory Booker of New Jersey
Rep. Tulsi Gabbard of Hawaii
Sen. Amy Klobuchar of Minnesota
Mayor Pete Buttigieg of South Bend, Indiana
Sen. Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts
Former Vice President Joe Biden
Sen. Bernie Sanders of Vermont
Sen. Kamala Harris of California
Businessman Andrew Yang
Businessman Tom Steyer
The Rules: Candidates will have 75 seconds to answer questions posed to them and 45 seconds for follow-ups at the moderators' discretion. Candidates should be able to respond if they're referred to by name by another candidate, but that will be at the moderators' discretion.
The MSNBC/Washington Post folks say each candidate will be asked a balanced number of questions.There will be no opening statement, but candidates will have one minute and 15 seconds for a closing statement.
The sixth Democratic presidential primary debate will be hosted by PBS and Politico at Loyola Marymount University on December 19. (It was moved from UCLA due to an ongoing labor dispute) To make the stage, candidates will need to hit 4 percent in four DNC-approved national or early voting state polls, and receive at least 200,000 unique donations.
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