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| Tonight’s Democratic Debate: What Time It Starts and What to Watch For | |
| (about 1 hour later) | |
| The debate is 8 p.m. to 11 p.m. Eastern in Westerville, Ohio. | The debate is 8 p.m. to 11 p.m. Eastern in Westerville, Ohio. |
| You can watch it on nytimes.com, The New York Times app, CNN, CNN International, CNN en Español and CNN.com. | You can watch it on nytimes.com, The New York Times app, CNN, CNN International, CNN en Español and CNN.com. |
| Twelve Democratic candidates will debate: Former Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr., Senator Elizabeth Warren, Senator Bernie Sanders, Senator Kamala Harris, Mayor Pete Buttigieg, the entrepreneur Andrew Yang, Senator Cory Booker, former Representative Beto O’Rourke, Senator Amy Klobuchar, the former housing secretary Julián Castro, Representative Tulsi Gabbard and the billionaire Tom Steyer. | Twelve Democratic candidates will debate: Former Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr., Senator Elizabeth Warren, Senator Bernie Sanders, Senator Kamala Harris, Mayor Pete Buttigieg, the entrepreneur Andrew Yang, Senator Cory Booker, former Representative Beto O’Rourke, Senator Amy Klobuchar, the former housing secretary Julián Castro, Representative Tulsi Gabbard and the billionaire Tom Steyer. |
| The candidates will have 75 seconds to answer questions and 45 seconds for rebuttals. There will be no opening statements. The moderators are the CNN anchors Anderson Cooper and Erin Burnett and The Times’s National editor, Marc Lacey. | The candidates will have 75 seconds to answer questions and 45 seconds for rebuttals. There will be no opening statements. The moderators are the CNN anchors Anderson Cooper and Erin Burnett and The Times’s National editor, Marc Lacey. |
| The New York Times will have provide live video of the debate, accompanied by live analysis from six reporters: Maggie Haberman, Lisa Lerer, Astead W. Herndon, Sydney Ember, Patricia Cohen and Elizabeth Dias. | The New York Times will have provide live video of the debate, accompanied by live analysis from six reporters: Maggie Haberman, Lisa Lerer, Astead W. Herndon, Sydney Ember, Patricia Cohen and Elizabeth Dias. |
| The Democratic field has lined up squarely behind Joseph R. Biden Jr. over President Trump’s baseless allegations that, as vice president, Mr. Biden acted improperly to benefit his son’s overseas business interests. | The Democratic field has lined up squarely behind Joseph R. Biden Jr. over President Trump’s baseless allegations that, as vice president, Mr. Biden acted improperly to benefit his son’s overseas business interests. |
| But for many of Mr. Biden’s rivals, the tougher question has been whether they think his son, Hunter Biden, should have been working for foreign interests while his father was vice president. On Sunday, the lawyer for the younger Mr. Biden said he was stepping down from the board of a Chinese company and would refrain from working for “foreign-owned companies” if his father was elected president. | But for many of Mr. Biden’s rivals, the tougher question has been whether they think his son, Hunter Biden, should have been working for foreign interests while his father was vice president. On Sunday, the lawyer for the younger Mr. Biden said he was stepping down from the board of a Chinese company and would refrain from working for “foreign-owned companies” if his father was elected president. |
| And just hours before Tuesday’s CNN/New York Times debate, there will be fresh material. Hunter Biden will be sharing more of his side of the story in an interview that ABC News has teased as “emotional,” where “no questions were off limits.” | And just hours before Tuesday’s CNN/New York Times debate, there will be fresh material. Hunter Biden will be sharing more of his side of the story in an interview that ABC News has teased as “emotional,” where “no questions were off limits.” |
| How Mr. Biden handles questions about his son will be closely watched, as will how the rest of the field balances addressing Hunter Biden’s work with denouncing Mr. Trump. | How Mr. Biden handles questions about his son will be closely watched, as will how the rest of the field balances addressing Hunter Biden’s work with denouncing Mr. Trump. |
| Since his heart attack two weeks ago in Las Vegas and the insertion of two stents to clear a blocked artery, Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont has been off the campaign trail recovering, mostly at his home in Burlington, Vt. | Since his heart attack two weeks ago in Las Vegas and the insertion of two stents to clear a blocked artery, Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont has been off the campaign trail recovering, mostly at his home in Burlington, Vt. |
| While Mr. Sanders, 78, has sat for interviews, spoken to press on the street outside his home and recorded videos, the debate will be his biggest event since his heart attack. While most of the candidates have political objectives on Tuesday, Mr. Sanders has a different kind of hurdle to clear, as his former adviser Mark Longabaugh told our colleague Sydney Ember. | While Mr. Sanders, 78, has sat for interviews, spoken to press on the street outside his home and recorded videos, the debate will be his biggest event since his heart attack. While most of the candidates have political objectives on Tuesday, Mr. Sanders has a different kind of hurdle to clear, as his former adviser Mark Longabaugh told our colleague Sydney Ember. |
| “I think he has only one objective in this debate, and that’s just to show that he’s healthy,” Mr. Longabaugh said. | “I think he has only one objective in this debate, and that’s just to show that he’s healthy,” Mr. Longabaugh said. |
| Mr. Sanders said last week the medical episode would “change the nature” of his campaign, which has been among the most punishing in the field. “We were doing, you know, in some cases five or six meetings a day, three or four rallies and town meetings and meeting with groups of people,” Mr. Sanders said. “I don’t think I’m going to do that.” | Mr. Sanders said last week the medical episode would “change the nature” of his campaign, which has been among the most punishing in the field. “We were doing, you know, in some cases five or six meetings a day, three or four rallies and town meetings and meeting with groups of people,” Mr. Sanders said. “I don’t think I’m going to do that.” |
| But Mr. Sanders quickly said that he had been misinterpreted and that his candidacy will continue full steam ahead. The first and biggest test will be how he performs at the debate. | But Mr. Sanders quickly said that he had been misinterpreted and that his candidacy will continue full steam ahead. The first and biggest test will be how he performs at the debate. |
| For weeks now, as she’s cemented herself as a fellow front-runner alongside Mr. Biden, the word has been that Senator Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts would see more sustained scrutiny from her fellow candidates. It hasn’t quite happened yet. | For weeks now, as she’s cemented herself as a fellow front-runner alongside Mr. Biden, the word has been that Senator Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts would see more sustained scrutiny from her fellow candidates. It hasn’t quite happened yet. |
| But this may be beginning to change. Without naming Ms. Warren, Mr. Biden last week, called her health care plan “dishonest.” Mr. Sanders contrasted himself with Ms. Warren by saying she is “a capitalist through her bones,” while he is not. | But this may be beginning to change. Without naming Ms. Warren, Mr. Biden last week, called her health care plan “dishonest.” Mr. Sanders contrasted himself with Ms. Warren by saying she is “a capitalist through her bones,” while he is not. |
| So far, Ms. Warren has been extremely lucky as a presidential candidate. At each moment when the heat on her has turned up, something happened to dial it down. | So far, Ms. Warren has been extremely lucky as a presidential candidate. At each moment when the heat on her has turned up, something happened to dial it down. |
| Last month when Mayor Pete Buttigieg of South Bend, Ind., and others, including the late-night host Stephen Colbert, criticized her for refusing to say whether the middle class would pay for her health care proposal, attention quickly shifted to Mr. Trump’s conduct on a call with the Ukrainian president. When Ms. Warren’s campaign made the embarrassing revelation that it fired a senior staffer who faced sexual harassment allegations, the Sanders campaign moments later announced that the Vermont senator had suffered a heart attack. | Last month when Mayor Pete Buttigieg of South Bend, Ind., and others, including the late-night host Stephen Colbert, criticized her for refusing to say whether the middle class would pay for her health care proposal, attention quickly shifted to Mr. Trump’s conduct on a call with the Ukrainian president. When Ms. Warren’s campaign made the embarrassing revelation that it fired a senior staffer who faced sexual harassment allegations, the Sanders campaign moments later announced that the Vermont senator had suffered a heart attack. |
| Polls of early-state voters show that Ms. Warren is the most popular Democratic presidential candidate, but that’s in part because no other candidate has taken a shot at her. If none do on Tuesday, it will be another month before their next best chance to do so. | Polls of early-state voters show that Ms. Warren is the most popular Democratic presidential candidate, but that’s in part because no other candidate has taken a shot at her. If none do on Tuesday, it will be another month before their next best chance to do so. |
| After three debates that each began with in-the-weeds discussions about health care policy, Tuesday’s face-off in Ohio comes in the midst of an impeachment inquiry of Mr. Trump and after a weekend of cataclysmic fallout after Mr. Trump abruptly changed United States policy in Syria. | After three debates that each began with in-the-weeds discussions about health care policy, Tuesday’s face-off in Ohio comes in the midst of an impeachment inquiry of Mr. Trump and after a weekend of cataclysmic fallout after Mr. Trump abruptly changed United States policy in Syria. |
| The debate is the first opportunity for the 12 candidates onstage — who have each endorsed impeaching Mr. Trump — to demonstrate contrasting visions of how they would address the president. | The debate is the first opportunity for the 12 candidates onstage — who have each endorsed impeaching Mr. Trump — to demonstrate contrasting visions of how they would address the president. |
| While each of the Democratic candidates have condemned Mr. Trump’s action and conduct in the White House, they all realize there is danger in placing opposition to him at the center of their campaigns. Democratic primary voters loathe the president, but on the campaign trail few ask the candidates to respond to the latest outrage of the day — let alone the foreign policy legacy of the Iraq war. | While each of the Democratic candidates have condemned Mr. Trump’s action and conduct in the White House, they all realize there is danger in placing opposition to him at the center of their campaigns. Democratic primary voters loathe the president, but on the campaign trail few ask the candidates to respond to the latest outrage of the day — let alone the foreign policy legacy of the Iraq war. |
| Voters, the candidates know by now, want to know the specifics about how their platforms will make their lives better, what policies they will seek to implement as president and, perhaps most of all, how they can win a general election. | Voters, the candidates know by now, want to know the specifics about how their platforms will make their lives better, what policies they will seek to implement as president and, perhaps most of all, how they can win a general election. |