2020 DEMOCRATIC PRESIDENTIAL PRIMARY DEBATE
NBC, MSNBC, Telemundo, 9:00 p.m. ET
The numbers for this year’s field of Democratic hopefuls competing for the party’s 2020 nomination for the presidency is so swollen, the Democratic National Committee and the NBC family of networks established an unprecedented series of stipulations and guidelines for these first debates of the 2020 election process. The 20 hopefuls who met the guidelines, regarding either percentages in certain polls or political donations in a certain number of states, get to take place in a televised either tonight or tomorrow night – with the participants for each night selected randomly. That’s why, of the top five politicians in the current polls, only one of them, Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren, is on stage tonight. Luck of the draw. She and nine other hopefuls, including former Texas Rep. Beto O’Rourke, Minnesota Sen. Amy Klobuchar, and New Jersey Sen. Cory Booker, will be fielding questions from the moderators. And there are five of those, including Chuck Todd, Lester Holt, and Rachel Maddow.