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Politics: Democratic 2020 Presidential Debates

The 4-1-1 on the first round of debates

Watch Live on NBC / MSNBC / Telemundo Live Stream: NBC News 9 p.m. ET / 6 p.m. PT Round 1: Wednesday, June 26th Round 2: Thursday, June 27th

The first and second rounds of debates are scheduled and will broadcast live from Miami, Florida, at the Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts. The debates will feature back-to-back primetime broadcasts on consecutive nights to ensure each candidate gets access to a primetime audience.

Jose Diaz-Balart, Savannah Guthrie, Lester Holt, Chuck Todd, Rachel Maddow

Moderators: Savannah Guthrie, Lester Holt, Chuck Todd, Rachel Maddow, and José Diaz-Balart

Qualifications: A candidate will need to either have at least one percent (1%) support in three qualifying polls or provide evidence of at least 65,000 individual donations from a minimum of 200 different donors in at least 20 states. Tie-break rules will be used to limit the debate to 20 candidates. Source: Election Central

Night 1 – June 26 Corey Booker: U.S. Senator from New Jersey since 2013 Julian Castro: Former U.S. Secretary of Housing and Urban Development from Texas Bill de Blasio: Mayor of New York City since 2013 John Delaney: U.S. Representative from Maryland since 2013 Tulsi Gabbard: U.S. Representative for the 2nd district of Hawaii since 2013 Jay Inslee: Governor of Washington since 2013 Amy Klobuchar: U.S. Senator from Minnesota since 2007 Beto O’Rourke: U.S. Representative for the 16th district of Texas since 2013 Tim Ryan: U.S. Representative for the 13th district of Ohio since 2003 Elizabeth Warren: U.S. Senator from Massachusetts since 2013

Night 2 – June 27 Michael Bennet: U.S. Senator from Colorado since 2009 Joe Biden: Former U.S. Senator and Former Vice President of the United States Pete Buttigieg: Mayor of South Bend, Indiana since 2012 Kirsten Gillibrand: U.S. Senator from New York since January 2009 Kamala Harris: U.S. Senator from California since 2017 John Hickenlooper: Governor of Colorado since 2011 Bernie Sanders: U.S. Senator from Vermont since 2007 Eric Swalwell: U.S. Representative from California’s 15th district since 2013 Marianne Williamson: Spiritual teacher, author, lecturer, entrepreneur, and activist Andrew Yang: American entrepreneur and founder of Venture for America (VFA)

Watch and learn where they all stand on the most important issues worrying Americans — most candidates have a position on the following

Medicare-for-All, Closing the Wealth Gap, The Climate Crisis, Public Education, Campaign Cash, Foreign Policy, Free College, Guns, Humane Immigration Reform, Legal Weed, Abolishing the Electoral College, Packing the Supreme Court, Criminal Justice Reform, Reproductive Rights, Voting Rights, Reparations, Taking on Big Tech, Affordable Housing, Family Care, Taking on Wall Street, Trade, Closing the Gender Gap, Veterans, Universal Basic Income, LGBTQ Rights, National Service

BOOKER | CASTRO | de BLASIO | DELANEY | GABBARD | INSLEE | KLOBUCHAR | O’ROURKE | RYAN | WARREN | BENNET | BIDEN | BUTTIGIEG | GILLIBRAND | HARRIS | HICKENLOOPER | SANDERS | SWALWELL | WILLIAMSON | YANG


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