Martin O’Malley, who was obviously frustrated in his struggles to be heard during Sunday night’s Democratic presidential candidates debate, found a brief moment to shine as an advocate for privacy rights.
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The two-hour debate will be hosted by the Congressional Black Caucus Institute and will broadcast live on your local NBC TV channel starting at 9 p.m. ET. Both Hillary Clinton and Bernie sanders had called on NBC News to include him. It’s tonight. And if you’re now thinking “Hey, isn’t kind of weird that the Democratic National Committee would schedule the last primary debate before Iowa on the Saturday of a three day weekend?” Bernie Sanders, who are locked in a narrow race in Iowa and New Hampshire.
During the debate, the three remaining Democratic candidates traded jabs on issues like healthcare, with Clinton claiming that Sanders would essentially dismantle President Obama’s Affordable Care Act. The two-hour event is set to begin on Sunday at 9 p.m. ET.
This alone would mean that the next Democratic debate could be the most important yet in the contest. Users also searched for “What did Hillary Clinton do that is illegal?” and “Is Hillary Clinton a Democrat?”
Moderators are NBC Nightly News anchor Lester Holt and the network’s chief foreign affairs correspondent, Andrea Mitchell. It showed Clinton with a 7-point lead.
“Only four debates before voters in our earliest states make their decision”, he said at the DNC’s summer meeting in Minneapolis.
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The next Republican presidential candidate debate is scheduled for Manchester, N.H., on February 6.
