Candidates could also qualify via the delegate threshold by winning at least one pledged delegate in All candidates still in the race at the time (Biden, Bloomberg, Buttigieg, Klobuchar, Sanders, Steyer and Warren), except for Gabbard, qualified for the debate.Following his landslide victory in Nevada the prior week, Sanders was targeted by several other candidates who attempted to dampen his momentum going into the upcoming Foreign policy was extensively discussed by the candidates, which took up about 25 minutes of the debate.The debate moderators received staunch criticism for focusing too much on narrowly-focused policy issues, failure to keep control of the candidates' speaking times, allowing candidates to interrupt other candidates during their allotted speaking times, applying the debate rules regarding giving candidates time to respond to personal attacks in a non-equitable way, and for permitting the audience to boo and jeer certain candidates without consequence. Of these, 23 candidates participated in at least one debate. Gabbard reached 1% among all adults and 2% among registered voters. The DNC rejected this idea saying that conducting its own polls would call into question its impartiality.The sixth debate was initially set to be held at the Days before the December 2019 debate, for which Booker did not qualify, he sent a petition to the other candidates' campaigns in which he urged the DNC to change the qualification requirements for the upcoming debates in 2020 so that more non-white candidates could participate. Bill de Blasio, Tim Ryan, Julian Castro, Cory Booker, Elizabeth Warren, Beto O’Rourke, Amy Klobuchar, Tulsi Gabbard, Jay Inslee, John Delaney Marianne Williamson, John Hickenlooper, Andrew Yang, Pete Buttigieg, Joe Biden, Bernie Sanders, Kamala Harris, Kirsten Gillibrand, Michael Bennet, Eric Swalwell Savannah Guthrie, Lester Holt, Chuck Todd, Rachel Maddow and José Diaz-Balart One debate … It was later revealed that Warren commented to Sanders, "I think you called me a liar on national TV." Alternatively, reaching five percent or more in two DNC-approved polls conducted in Iowa, New Hampshire, Nevada or South Carolina was also accepted as meeting the polling threshold. Democratic Debate Schedule And Key Questions: A Guide To Night 1, Round 2 The potentially consequential second round of Democratic debates kicks off Tuesday in Detroit at 8 p.m. In early June 2020, Biden passed the threshold of 1,991 delegates to gain the nomination at the On June 12, the Bullock campaign wrote a certification letter to the DNC claiming that Bullock qualified for participation in the first debate through the polling criteria (as they believed the open-ended poll from ABC News/On the second night of the second debate, protesters motivated by the death of During the closing statements for the third debate, in which candidates were asked to recall moments of resilience after a professional setback, protesters interrupted Immigrant rights protestors interrupted Biden's closing statement.On August 23, Gabbard's campaign protested the failure of the DNC to release "their criteria for selecting the 16 polling organizations they deem 'certified'" for qualifying candidates for the third debate.The confusion stemmed from the fact that the poll data was presented with two sets of results: one of all adults, and one of registered voters. Romanoff. Previous Debates (EST) Jun 16 2020. Denver, CO . Schedule of Democratic Party presidential primary debates in 2019 and 2020. To qualify in terms of polling, candidates needed to reach three percent or more in four polls approved by the DNC. To qualify in terms of polling, candidates had to reach four percent or more in four polls approved by the DNC. Gravel, the one candidate to qualify by the donor criterion only, was not invited because of the 20-candidate limit and the polling criterion's precedence over the donor criterion as mandated by the DNC. 11th Democratic Debate. John Hickenlooper and Andrew Romanoff Third Senate Debate. An approved poll conducted on July 1 was conducted similarly, but it is unclear which category was used for the qualification for the debates, as no candidate had 2% in one category and 1% in the other.On October 10, Gabbard threatened to boycott the fourth debate, saying that she believed the DNC and the media were rigging the election.After Yang had received what he considered to be his fourth qualifying poll, the DNC revealed that qualifying polls conducted by different organizations would not be counted separately if they were sponsored by the same DNC-approved sponsor.

"There were accusations online and in the media that Bloomberg had stacked the audience in his favor, though nothing was ever proven. The debate also streamed live on the following Facebook Pages: CNN, CNN International, CNN Politics, CNN Replay, AC360 and Erin Burnett OutFront. The set of participants for the second debate was identical to the first debates with one exception: Bullock replaced Swalwell, who suspended his campaign between the first and second debates.The debate on July 30 featured Bullock, Buttigieg, Delaney, Hickenlooper, Klobuchar, O'Rourke, Ryan, Sanders, Warren and Williamson, while the debate on July 31 featured Bennet, Biden, Booker, Castro, de Blasio, Gabbard, Gillibrand, Harris, Inslee and Yang.The overarching theme on the first night was a clash between moderates and progressives on a variety of issues, ranging from Each of the first two debates took place during two consecutive nights, with a maximum of 10 candidates per night. To qualify in terms of donors, candidates had to receive donations from 200,000 unique donors with 800 unique donors in 20 different states, territories or the District of Columbia.Gabbard, a few days before failing to qualify for the debate,The candidates who qualified were Biden, Buttigieg, Klobuchar, Sanders, Steyer, Warren and Yang.The Chinese government censored a live feed of the debate after moderator A memo released by the DNC on December 20 indicated that the qualification period for the January debate started on November 14, 2019, and ended on January 10, 2020. Sanders replied, "Let's not do it right now.