Same goes for former New York Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg, who is publicly flirting with a run but hasn’t pulled the trigger yet. Hate to break it to you, but Patrick won’t be making his debate debut. Sweden has escaped a second coronavirus wave so far. Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Amy Klobuchar speaks as Sen. Cory Booker looks on during the Democratic Presidential Debate at Texas Southern University's Health and PE Center on September 12, 2019 in Houston, Texas. After Steyer and then Gabbard qualified for the October debate, some speculated that the debate would return to a two-night affair, but on Sept. 27 the DNC made it clear that the debate would remain one night. She was hammered by more moderate rivals such as Biden and Buttigieg for her unabashedly liberal policy proposals, particularly her support for “Medicare for all.” The moderators and candidates alike pressed her on whether middle-class taxes would go up under her healthcare plan. “Anything that [they] can do to get air time is the goal,” he explains. He’s been steadily climbing in early primary states, especially in Iowa, where a recent poll had him in the lead for the first time. They’ll be joined by two candidates who hadn’t quite made the cut for the previous debate: Hawaii Rep. Tulsi Gabbard and billionaire executive Tom Steyer, who’ll make his Democratic National Committee-sanctioned presidential primary debate debut. Gabbard qualified for and appeared in the first and second Democratic debates, and Steyer has never before appeared in a DNC-sanction debate; he entered the race in July. At this stage of the election, much of what they’re measuring is name recognition. Tuesday will also be a crucial chance for lower-polling candidates to gain attention before they face the higher requirements to appear in the November debate. After September, there will be one debate every month until April 2020. At least 225 members of the House of Representatives have said they support the impeachment inquiry (all Democrats except one), and all 19 Democratic presidential primary candidates have said they support the inquiry. All eyes will be on how Biden and the other candidates navigate Trump pressuring Ukraine to investigate a political rival and his recent attacks on the former Vice President. First-time voter Tyler, the Creator urges fans to ‘pull up’ to the polls. Location is to be determined. Candidates had to hit at least 2% in four DNC-approved polls and receive at least 130,000 unique donations by Oct. 1 to qualify for the debate. Don’t expect this debate to be too different from the last one, however. Will this debate really make or break his candidacy? Many of the familiar rituals of stumping for votes are off the table during the COVID-19 pandemic, drastically changing what it looks like to run for office in L.A. L.A. County sees no post-Labor Day spike in coronavirus numbers. Falwell apologizes, director of diversity resigns. The October Democratic debate will take place on Tuesday, Oct. 15, and air live at 8 p.m. EDT from private liberal arts college Otterbein University in Westerville, Ohio, a suburb of Columbus. He said that while it’s still very early in the campaign, “in terms of the invisible primary, in terms of the donors and organizing of campaigns and resources … it’s really quite late.” He also said some of the lower-polling candidates may start thinking of dropping out. As some push for faster COVID-19 reopenings, Newsom warns of a possible second wave, Here’s what to expect in the first 2020 presidential debate between Trump and Biden. Detroit Democratic debates, Round 2: Winners, losers and who should drop out Live fact check of 2nd debate: Health care, criminal justice, more Detroit Democratic debates, Round 1: … Here is the Democrat heading for a battle with President Trump. Debate moderator Anderson Cooper looks during the CNN Democratic Presidential Primary Debate between Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton and candidate Senator Bernie Sanders at the Whiting Auditorium at the Cultural Center Campus on March 6, 2016 in Flint, Michigan. “Nobody outside the top three has taken off.”, Noel tells TIME that the only real trend he’s seen has been the continued rise of Warren from a more “second-tier” candidate to neck-in-neck with Biden. who’s called for Trump’s impeachment for years, 12 Candidates Will Take the Stage Tonight for October's Democratic Debate. The DNC had said that if more than 10 candidates qualified for the September debate it would be split into two evenings, but only 10 made the cut. The debate will be co-hosted by CNN and The New York Times and air live at 8 p.m. from Otterbein University in Westerville, Ohio. All the candidates from September’s debate will appear onstage, along with new additions Gabbard and Steyer (who had both met the September debate’s donor requirements but not its polling thresholds). Perhaps, but there’s a good chance it will come up again. You can catch the action starting at 6 p.m. Pacific time on MSNBC or streaming online at msnbc.com and washingtonpost.com. Buttigieg has been the mayor of South Bend, Ind. That might affect the dynamics of how other candidates criticize the former Vice President and Senator. Kropf also TIME in an email that she suspects foreign policy to be “huge.”. This Group Wants to Change That, 2020 Could Be Last Election Cycle for Telephone Polling, Experts Say. The first of 12 Democratic presidential primary debates will take place at the end of June. But there’s a fresh dynamic among the moderators: It’s an all-female panel this time, consisting of MSNBC host Rachel Maddow; NBC News’ chief foreign correspondent and MSNBC host Andrea Mitchell; Kristen Welker, White House correspondent for NBC News; and Ashley Parker, who covers the White House for the Washington Post. Polls 2020: As Biden, Trump begin debates, the races in battleground states are tight. Remind me — what happened in the October debate? This will be his first debate as a solidly top-tier candidate. Following the Trump Administration’s recent announcement that it would pull U.S. troops from northeastern Syria — which critics argue effectively abandons Kurdish allies — foreign policy could receive greater air time. She’s right on the edge of it; she’s been slipping out,” Noel says. While every candidate supports the impeachment inquiry, they vary on the degree to which they’ve openly called for the President’s impeachment itself, let alone removing Trump from office.