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So far just five candidates (Biden, Buttigieg, Klobuchar, Sanders, and Warren) have met the Democratic National Committee’s more stringent polling and fundraising criteria for participation.

“[The candidates] deserve a lot of credit because the debate is a really valuable tool for them to reach out to the nation, and yet they were willing to stand by 150 workers who were trying to win livable wages and affordable healthcare,” says Susan Minato, executive vice president of Unite Here

Only 5 candidates, so far, have qualified for the next debate, which will be held on Jan. 14 in Des Moines.

Trump also essentially confirmed a New York Times piece that he is weighing whether to skip the 2020 debates based on concern about the fairness of the moderators.

President Donald Trump made clear Monday that he intends to participate in at least three general election debates, but he is threatening to sidestep the nonprofit group charged with running them.

President Trump threatened to pull out of a system of presidential campaign debates that has been in place for more than three decades and accused the nonpartisan commission that oversees them of bias.

The letter, sent to the DNC Saturday afternoon, is signed by Booker, Castro and all seven presidential candidates who have already qualified for the December debate. It urges the committee to alter its debate qualifications for the January and February debates in a way that would allow Booker and

The 11-person Presidential Debate Academic Advisory Committee is charged with identifying key themes for academic engagement, and may establish subgroups and other working groups to involve additional faculty in the planning process.

Donald Trump is considering skipping the 2020 presidential debates, according to a New York Times report Thursday, throwing into question Belmont University's starring role as host of the final debate.

Trump will often take an extreme position as an opening salvo in negotiations. In this case, a give-me-the-moderators-I-want-or-I-won't show-up approach doesn't seem far-fetched on the surface. During the 2016 Republican primaries, the reality TV star-turned-party front-runner boycotted a Fox News

All of the presidential candidates who qualified for next week’s Democratic debate are threatening to skip the event in response to a labor dispute taking place at the debate venue, Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles.

Information about students’ possible access to debate tickets simply does not exist.