{"id":1004536,"date":"2019-06-13T16:22:43","date_gmt":"2019-06-13T20:22:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/democrats.org\/?p=1004348"},"modified":"2024-05-23T20:04:01","modified_gmt":"2024-05-23T20:04:01","slug":"dnc-announces-candidates-participating-in-first-democratic-presidential-primary-debate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/democrats.org\/news\/dnc-announces-candidates-participating-in-first-democratic-presidential-primary-debate\/","title":{"rendered":"DNC Announces Candidates Participating in First Democratic Presidential Primary Debate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p dir=\"ltr\">DNC Announces Candidates Participating in First Democratic Presidential Primary <span class=\"il\">Debate<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Today, the DNC announced that twenty candidates have been invited to participate in the first Democratic presidential primary <span class=\"il\">debate<\/span>.\u00a0 Each candidate was invited based on the qualification criteria agreed to by the DNC and NBC News, announced publicly in February.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">The first <span class=\"il\">debate<\/span> will take place over two back-to-back nights at 9 p.m. ET on June 26 and 27, 2019, in Miami, Florida. The <span class=\"il\">debate<\/span> will be broadcast in prime time on NBC, MSNBC, and Telemundo, and will be streamed online for free on a variety of digital and social platforms.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">The following candidates have been invited to participate in the first primary <span class=\"il\">debate<\/span>:<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Sen. Michael Bennet<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Vice President Joe Biden*<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Sen. Cory Booker*<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Mayor Pete Buttigieg*<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Sec. Julian Castro*<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Mayor Bill de Blasio<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Rep. John Delaney<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Rep. Tulsi Gabbard*<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand*<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Sen. Kamala Harris*<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Gov. John Hickenlooper<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Gov. Jay Inslee*<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Sen. Amy Klobuchar*<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Rep. Beto O\u2019Rourke*<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Rep. Tim Ryan<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Sen. Bernie Sanders*<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Rep. Eric Swalwell<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Sen. Elizabeth Warren*<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Ms. Marianne Williamson*<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Mr. Andrew Yang*<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">* Candidates marked by an asterisk qualified through both polling and grassroots fundraising thresholds.\u00a0 The remaining candidates qualified through polling only.<\/p>\n<div class=\"yj6qo\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DNC Announces Candidates Participating in First Democratic Presidential Primary Debate &nbsp; Today, the DNC announced that twenty candidates have been invited to participate in the first Democratic presidential primary debate.\u00a0 Each candidate was invited based on the qualification criteria agreed to by the DNC and NBC News, announced publicly in February. &nbsp; The first debate [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":263,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1004536","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-press-release"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.0 - 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