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Washington state Democrats are making a push for the third presidential primary debate to be held in Seattle. The state party announced Monday that it is asking Washingtonians to sign a public petition to the Democratic National Committee.

Washington state has never been much of a hotspot for presidential politics. The reliably blue state has never hosted a Democratic presidential primary debate; it doesn’t appear Republicans have ever held a debate here, either. Local officials — including Seattle Mayor Jenny Durkan — think it’s time

No city better embodies the challenges of climate change than the setting for the first Democratic debate in June. At least 10 candidates who meet the Democratic National Committee’s set of polling and grassroots fundraising criteria will take the stage in Miami, a city that will face the threat of

Some Democratic candidates for president are adding Fox News to their campaign stops as the primary battle heats up, hoping to reach as many potential voters as possible. Why it matters: The debate among Democrats over whether or how the party should engage with Fox News is sowing division within

How many Democrats are running for president? It’s not a trick question. And it’s not an easy question to answer. Unfortunately, it’s also not a question we can really avoid. We’ll be writing about the Democratic primary for the next [checks notes] 16 months here at FiveThirtyEight, until the

DNC Chair Tom Perez has announced 12 presidential primary debates to be held over the course of the 2020 cycle, with the first two occurring in June and July of this year. Perez said his goals for the Democratic presidential primary debates are to (1) give the grassroots a bigger voice than ever

UtahPolicy.com has learned the Utah Debate Commission will apply to host a presidential debate in 2020. Additionally, the Commission on Presidential Debates, which organizes the major televised debates every four years, sent a representative to Utah late last year for a preliminary site visit.

The New Orleans City Council will ask the city's tourism leaders to apply as a host city for presidential or vice-presidential debates in 2020.

Hosted most recently by Hofstra University, Washington University and the University of Nevada — Las Vegas, the 2016 presidential debates rallied the host institutions’ local communities as American politics descended upon them. Studies of the 2016 debate cycle concluded that host institutions’

It might sound strange, but presidential primary debates are arguably more important than general election debates. Primary voters have weak initial preferences and can vacillate among candidates, so they can be heavily influenced by events like debates. Primary debates do not attract nearly as many

Details as small as the debate schedule matter, as was shown by the 2016 election