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The presidential hopefuls will have 1 minute and 15 seconds for direct responses to questions and 45 seconds for responses and rebuttals. Candidates will have the opportunity to deliver opening statements, but there will be no closing statements.

CNN's Chris Cillizza looks back at past presidential debate performances and explains how to have a breakout moment

Amazingly enough, there are still 20 “major” candidates in the field, which makes the field too big to function. Fitting all of them into a debate takes two nights. Listening to each of them talk for just six minutes back to back would take two hours.

The word on the street is that the third Democratic Presidential debate, the serious-candidates-only-one, will be where things go down.

One debate getting a lot of attention is the 2020 presidential debate possibly coming to Connecticut sometime next year. Connecticut is one of six locations being looked at across the country.

What would the debate stage look like if the list or type of eligible polls were different? Gabbard, in particular, has taken the Democratic National Committee to task for the specific pollsters included in its list of approved polling organizations, arguing that had the list of pollsters been

Democratic Rep. Grace Meng along with ASPIRE PAC, the political arm of Asian American and Pacific Islander (AAPI) members of Congress, sent a letter to the Democratic National Committee (DNC) on Aug. 20, calling for the DNC to ensure that at least one of its sponsored presidential debates features

Solo 10 aspirantes presidenciales demócratas clasificaron al próximo debate en televisión, el cual se realizará el 12 de septiembre. Para estar en la lista necesitaron cumplir con requerimientos mínimos de recaudación de fondos y rendimiento en las encuestas.

Democratic presidential hopefuls are expected to gather for a single-night debate next month among 10 presidential hopefuls, after new debate qualification rules blocked access for half the candidates who appeared in July.

Unfortunately, in the minds of those making the big decisions around who gets to moderate presidential debates these days, the sentiment of staying impartial and largely invisible coming from pros like Wallace and Schieffer no longer exists. That’s clear from the decisions made by NBC, CNN and ABC