But after renewing that point during an interview with MSNBC on Saturday, she said officials with the Democratic National Committee told her not to show up for first presidential debate Tuesday in Las Vegas.
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“By getting rid of this retribution policy of punishing our candidates for participating in events being hosted by… state parties or local chambers of commerce or whomever, I think it’s not good for our democracy”, Gabbard said. “The focus of the debate in Nevada as well as the other debates and forums in the coming weeks should be on the candidates who will take the stage, and their vision to move America forward”. But in 2008, for example, then-Sens.
Weaver said the Vermont independent senator, running second in the polls to Hillary Clinton, is a supporter of more debates. Former Maryland Gov. Martin O’Malley and Sen. The DNC has capped the number at six. Going on TV and suggesting that the Democratic Party expand its paltry debate schedule, which critics (including a few Democratic candidates) say amounts to an attempt by the party establishment to protect Hillary Clinton’s candidacy from unnecessary damage and exposure.
“It was following that that people reached out and were supportive of me seeking the congressional seat”, he said last month. But Wasserman Schultz offered no indications Sunday that more will be added to that calendar.
Rep. Tusli Gabbard (D-Hawaii) will be watching the first debate of Democratic presidential candidates Tuesday on TV from her home district. The next, on November 14, comes on a Saturday smack in the middle of the college-football season.
“A$3 paper on polarization and inequality released in August by political scientists from Princeton, Georgetown, and the University of Oregon…provides a few empirical evidence that Democratic Party’s leftward drift is more pronounced than the GOP’s rightward drift, at least at the state level”, The American Interest recently observed.
“The governor has been really outspoken about the fact that there is an unprecedented and historically limited number of debates”.
“The DNC team wanted this first debate to have all the focus on the candidates”, this person told the newspaper.
Weaver said more debates would keep media attention on Democrats and would feature the left’s flank of the party’s platform “on the front-burner”.
She said that she would instead watch the debate in Hawaii.
DNC Chair, Debbie Wasserman Shultz struggled to gain control of an auditorium of delegates chanting “we want debates! We want more people gathering together in their communities and their town halls and inviting these presidential candidates to come in and talk story”.
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“A person close to the committee who asked for anonymity to discuss internal discussions insisted, however, that Ms. Gabbard had not been disinvited”.
