All three Democratic presidential candidates, former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, Sen.
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The details – where and when – remain unresolved, and the Democratic National Committee has not yet agreed to the arrangement, the Clinton and Sanders sources said. After Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders started negotiating their own schedule of extra debates, the DNC had no choice but to sanction more debates.
Over the weekend, the Democratic Party and its three presidential candidates agreed to add four additional debates, a dramatic increase to a schedule that had included a total of six.
“However, absent agreement on the details, we will give our campaigns the space to focus on the important work of engaging caucus goers in Iowa”.
The first of the newly-scheduled debates will take place February 4 in New Hampshire, just days ahead of that state’s primary on February 9. The GOP held a debate this past Thursday.
He said they will agree to a debate in Flint, Michigan, recently rocked by water contamination, if the Clinton campaign will agree to a debate in New York City. But last week, cable news network MSNBC and the Manchester Union-Leader newspaper announced that they would team up to stage a “rogue” unsanctioned debate before the New Hampshire primary. “Those principles will continue to guide these negotiations”, she said. The previous debate schedule, which was modeled after the RNC’s plan to frontload their schedule to help the Republican frontrunner, was a complete disaster.
Sanders responded by proposing the additional debates, which now seem likely to occur if the DNC signs on.
With the New Hampshire primary set for next Tuesday, will the Democratic candidates hold another debate before voters hit the polls?
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It is an all around win-win for Democratic voters.
