With 4 days to go till the New Hampshire major and no clear victor within the Iowa caucuses, the eighth Democratic primary debate of the
With 4 days to go till the New Hampshire major and no clear victor within the Iowa caucuses, the eighth Democratic primary debate of the 2020 presidential election will happen at Saint Anselm Faculty in Manchester, New Hampshire, this Friday, February 7. Eleven candidates are nonetheless vying for the nomination, however solely seven shall be on stage when the talk begins at eight pm Jap.
The talk shall be moderated by ABC’s George Stephanopoulos, David Muir, and Linsey Davis, in addition to Adam Sexton and Monica Hernandez of WMUR-TV. Alongside ABC and WMUR-TV, Apple Information can be co-hosting the talk, which shall be broadcast by ABC and streamed dwell on the ABC website, YouTube channel, and app.
Former Vice President Joe Biden; Sens. Elizabeth Warren, Bernie Sanders, and Amy Klobuchar; former South Bend, Indiana, Mayor Pete Buttigieg; billionaire Tom Steyer; and entrepreneur Andrew Yang all qualified for the debate. Each candidate besides Yang was additionally onstage in Des Moines final month; Yang missed the January debate but qualified for New Hampshire on the power of his ballot numbers in New Hampshire and nationally.
The Democratic National Committee offered candidates two pathways to qualify for the talk. The primary possibility was to fulfill a delegate threshold: Any candidate to earn no less than one pledged delegate to the Democratic Nationwide Conference from the Iowa caucuses routinely certified for the New Hampshire debate.
The second pathway was an identical to the January debate qualifying customary: Candidates might qualify by attaining 225,000 distinctive donors and incomes both no less than 5 p.c assist in 4 qualifying nationwide or early-state polls, or 7 p.c in two qualifying early-state polls.
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