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| First Democratic debate: Bernie Sanders and Hillary Clinton set to headline – live | First Democratic debate: Bernie Sanders and Hillary Clinton set to headline – live |
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| 12.39am BST00:39 | |
| Ben Jacobs | |
| We know, because he’s told us, what Donald Trump will be doing during the debate. But what about the rest of the Republican field? | |
| The soundtrack at the party we for some reason enjoy imagining that you are at may have slowed a notch from Kool to, say, Atlantic Starr, but Ben Jacobs is still shouting, and this time it’s about what GOP candidates have on tap tonight: “Some candidates have campaign events overlapping,” Ben shouts: | |
| Kentucky senator Rand Paul is holding an event at the University of Iowa which starts at 6:30 Central. However, a Paul spokesman told the Guardian that “we have an event overlap but he’ll watch parts and is expected to react on the livestream.” (Paul is livestreaming his entire day on the campaign trail on Periscope). | |
| Retired neurosurgeon Ben Carson and former senator Rick Santorum also have campaign events tonight but will try to watch what they can. A spokesman for Santorum told the Guardian that he would listen on the radio in the car between events. | |
| But not all Republicans are watching. Florida senator Marco Rubio told Greta van Susteren on Fox News Monday that he likely won’t be watching, although he will likely “see the clips and the highlights.” | |
| 12.33am BST00:33 | |
| Some people in the universe have noted that one significant figure in national Democratic politics to whom intensive speculation has been attached as to his designs or not on the White House, who is the sitting vice president with a ready-made army of potential supporters and donors – uh, he’s not in Las Vegas. | |
| Is Joe Biden running for president? Not so far. But CNN thought there was enough of a chance that he would do so at the last minute that they prepared a “breakout podium” (that’s actually a lectern, to read or speak behind. You stand on podiums (podia?)). | |
| In case of Biden break out podium number 6. Here it is folks. #DemDebate pic.twitter.com/27B7ij3IEO | |
| But the vice president will not be in the debate hall tonight. Instead he is literally hosting a high school reunion. Then he says he’ll watch from home. No word on whether he’ll follow the baseball. But let’s be honest: probably. | |
| The publication of the lectern pic does not sit well with some readers alongside the fact that Lawrence Lessig, the Harvard Professor who says he has reported raising more than $1m in his own Democratic presidential bid to get the dark money out of politics, has not been invited by CNN – because, they say, his poll numbers were too low (and Chafee and Webb and O’Malley on stage, that’s saying something). | |
| .@CNN You obviously have a spare podium. Why not #LetLessigDebate? Biden isn't coming. @Lessig2016 #FixDemocracyFirst #DemDebate | |
| 12.24am BST00:24 | |
| Here’s a strange piece of news to emerge on the verge of Clinton’s first big debate outing of 2016: the New Yorker has published, in full and for the first time, an Obama campaign memo from 2008 describing how to beat her. | |
| The memo describes a plan to attack Clinton’s perceived vulnerability on character issues, after the brushes with indignity and untruth during the Bill Clinton administration and a lingering sense of impropriety and secrecy, if not outright scandal, during her years in the senate. | |
| Here’s a grab of part of them memo. Click through for explication and related news coverage. | |
| Here's how the Obama team viewed the contrast between Obama and Hillary in 2007 http://t.co/CJbosO8gdf pic.twitter.com/Ab5o5W2Zyd | |
| It's almost as if there are Obama loyalists who don't like Hillary . . . . https://t.co/r6919ppyjG | |
| 12.17am BST00:17 | |
| In case you’ve forgotten what Jim Webb, the Emmy-award winning journalist whose Fields of Fire Tom Wolfe called “the finest of the Vietnam novels”, looks like, CNN has a graphic, which handily places the candidates in the order in which they will appear onstage and links to the live stream site: | |
| All the ways to watch tonight's #DemDebate http://t.co/mBEMpquU8R pic.twitter.com/jWj1q1NUc2 | |
| Updated at 12.20am BST | |
| 12.13am BST00:13 | |
| At the request of many, and even though I expect it to be a very boring two hours, I will be covering the Democrat Debate live on twitter! | |
| And yes, we’re aware of what we’re competing against. We know you have a choice of live debate coverage, and we want to thank you for choosing us! | |
| Now pay us $10 for a beer and no we don’t take cash. | |
| Not only are there other live blogs out there competing for your attention tonight – Game 4 of the Dodgers-Mets playoff series starts at 8.07pm, just early enough to be in full swing by the time the Democrats start talking. | |
| It’ll be a night of channel surfing in the White House, the press secretary has announced: | |
| Wouldn't be surprised if the president catches part of the debate tonight, @PressSec says, but he's likely to "channel surf" over to #MLB | |
| (Obama’s Cubs are on the verge of wrapping up their series against the Cardinals. It’s 6-4 in the bottom of the seventh.) | |
| Tonight's liveblog: "Nice attack by O'Malley... HOME RUN!!!!!!!!!... Cuse me, Sanders makes an interesting pt there about income inequality" | |
| Updated at 12.13am BST | |
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| Ben Jacobs | |
| At that party you’re at, the Guardian’s Ben Jacobs is there too, and in case you can’t hear him shouting over Kool & The Gang, here’s a transcription of what he’s saying. | At that party you’re at, the Guardian’s Ben Jacobs is there too, and in case you can’t hear him shouting over Kool & The Gang, here’s a transcription of what he’s saying. |
| “Much of the media attention around tonight’s Democratic debate has focused on the long-awaited showdown between frontrunner Hillary Clinton and insurgent Bernie Sanders,” Ben shouts. | “Much of the media attention around tonight’s Democratic debate has focused on the long-awaited showdown between frontrunner Hillary Clinton and insurgent Bernie Sanders,” Ben shouts. |
| “However, there are three other candidates on the stage who will try to make their mark and take advantage of their first major moment in the sun”: | “However, there are three other candidates on the stage who will try to make their mark and take advantage of their first major moment in the sun”: |
| Martin O’Malley: The former governor of Maryland and mayor of Baltimore has been, in a way, the most disappointing of all the Democratic candidates. O’Malley once appeared to be best positioned of any candidate to challenge Clinton from the left. He has repeatedly visited Iowa and New Hampshire and courted elected officials and activists in those states. However, the unrest in his hometown of Baltimore shortly before his campaign launch altered the political narrative around him, and the rise of Bernie Sanders has made it difficult for a more traditional politician to stand out. | Martin O’Malley: The former governor of Maryland and mayor of Baltimore has been, in a way, the most disappointing of all the Democratic candidates. O’Malley once appeared to be best positioned of any candidate to challenge Clinton from the left. He has repeatedly visited Iowa and New Hampshire and courted elected officials and activists in those states. However, the unrest in his hometown of Baltimore shortly before his campaign launch altered the political narrative around him, and the rise of Bernie Sanders has made it difficult for a more traditional politician to stand out. |
| With Joe Biden’s potential candidacy looming, this may be the former Maryland governor’s one shot to catapult himself out of the tier of also ran candidates. Like Eminem in the movie 8 Mile, “You only get one shot, do not miss your chance to blow / This opportunity comes once in a lifetime, yo.” | |
| Jim Webb: A former one-term senator from Virginia with three tattoos, Webb is perhaps the most idiosyncratic candidate on stage, and running one of the most idiosyncratic campaigns. He has rarely been in Iowa, New Hampshire, on television or really any place else. Mother Jones even launched an investigation to see if he was really running for president. Webb’s last public appearance seems to have been on a radio show in late September. | Jim Webb: A former one-term senator from Virginia with three tattoos, Webb is perhaps the most idiosyncratic candidate on stage, and running one of the most idiosyncratic campaigns. He has rarely been in Iowa, New Hampshire, on television or really any place else. Mother Jones even launched an investigation to see if he was really running for president. Webb’s last public appearance seems to have been on a radio show in late September. |
| Despite all of this, Webb, who gave the Democratic response to the State of the Union in 2007 and was once considered a rising star in politics, still brings enough gravitas to be taken at least somewhat seriously. The question is whether he can use the debate to finally start a conventional campaign or if Webb, a combat veteran who served secretary of the navy under Ronald Reagan, just keeps on doing his own thing. | Despite all of this, Webb, who gave the Democratic response to the State of the Union in 2007 and was once considered a rising star in politics, still brings enough gravitas to be taken at least somewhat seriously. The question is whether he can use the debate to finally start a conventional campaign or if Webb, a combat veteran who served secretary of the navy under Ronald Reagan, just keeps on doing his own thing. |
| Lincoln Chafee: For Lincoln Chafee, if he is to walk the long road to the White House, he has to make up more than a few kilometers tonight. The former Rhode Island governor and senator, best known for his advocacy for the metric system and party switch to become a Democrat in 2013, has been the darkest of dark horses in the race. | Lincoln Chafee: For Lincoln Chafee, if he is to walk the long road to the White House, he has to make up more than a few kilometers tonight. The former Rhode Island governor and senator, best known for his advocacy for the metric system and party switch to become a Democrat in 2013, has been the darkest of dark horses in the race. |
| So far, the highlight of Chafee’s campaign has been a music video aired by late night talk show host Conan O’Brien rooting for the former Rhode Island governor to somehow crack one percent in the polls. Chafee has to find a way to change that tonight and maybe even work his way up to 2%. | So far, the highlight of Chafee’s campaign has been a music video aired by late night talk show host Conan O’Brien rooting for the former Rhode Island governor to somehow crack one percent in the polls. Chafee has to find a way to change that tonight and maybe even work his way up to 2%. |
| Updated at 12.17am BST | |
| 11.59pm BST23:59 | 11.59pm BST23:59 |
| We have a lot of informational and entertaining preview content coming your way before the debate begins, in about two hours now. | We have a lot of informational and entertaining preview content coming your way before the debate begins, in about two hours now. |
| But we want to start the night out by giving pride of place to you, our readers, many of whom have replied to our online callout for questions you’d like to see asked: | But we want to start the night out by giving pride of place to you, our readers, many of whom have replied to our online callout for questions you’d like to see asked: |
| What's the one question you would ask the Democratic presidential candidates? Tell us before the #DemDebate http://t.co/ON9U1GZL2o | What's the one question you would ask the Democratic presidential candidates? Tell us before the #DemDebate http://t.co/ON9U1GZL2o |
| On Facebook, Miriam Colman asks: | On Facebook, Miriam Colman asks: |
| What are their proposals for coming to a peaceful resolution to the Syrian conflict? | What are their proposals for coming to a peaceful resolution to the Syrian conflict? |
| What common ground do they see with republicans and how do they plan on building on them? | What common ground do they see with republicans and how do they plan on building on them? |
| On our Guardian Witness tool, user carbird76 asks: | On our Guardian Witness tool, user carbird76 asks: |
| Stagnant wages | Stagnant wages |
| What are you gonna do to raise wages? Many Americans haven't had a raise in many years. Many of us are up to our eyeballs in debt, and mad as hell about it. And honestly, Barack hasn't slowed the exporting if jobs at all. What are you gonna do? | What are you gonna do to raise wages? Many Americans haven't had a raise in many years. Many of us are up to our eyeballs in debt, and mad as hell about it. And honestly, Barack hasn't slowed the exporting if jobs at all. What are you gonna do? |
| Sent via Guardian Witness | Sent via Guardian Witness |
| By carbird76 | By carbird76 |
| 11 October 2015, 21:57 | 11 October 2015, 21:57 |
| We hope some of you are getting together to talk about these questions tonight. And, just in case you’re calling that couch and TV and cocktails outnumbering invitees a debate “party”... | We hope some of you are getting together to talk about these questions tonight. And, just in case you’re calling that couch and TV and cocktails outnumbering invitees a debate “party”... |
| 11.23pm BST23:23 | 11.23pm BST23:23 |
| Welcome to Democratic debate night! | Welcome to Democratic debate night! |
| Hello and welcome to our live coverage of the first Democratic presidential debate of the 2016 race for the White House. The Guardian’s Sabrina Siddiqui (@sabrinasiddiqui) and Paul Lewis (@PaulLewis) are in Las Vegas, where CNN is scheduled to start broadcasting the action at 8.30pm ET (you can watch it for free online right here, though the network’s countdown clock has only begun on TV). | Hello and welcome to our live coverage of the first Democratic presidential debate of the 2016 race for the White House. The Guardian’s Sabrina Siddiqui (@sabrinasiddiqui) and Paul Lewis (@PaulLewis) are in Las Vegas, where CNN is scheduled to start broadcasting the action at 8.30pm ET (you can watch it for free online right here, though the network’s countdown clock has only begun on TV). |
| The last time around, Hillary Clinton was flanked by candidates called Barack Obama and John Edwards and under pressure to defend her Iraq war vote and years on the Walmart board. She took part in 21 televised debates over an entire year from 2007 to 2008 – and lost. | The last time around, Hillary Clinton was flanked by candidates called Barack Obama and John Edwards and under pressure to defend her Iraq war vote and years on the Walmart board. She took part in 21 televised debates over an entire year from 2007 to 2008 – and lost. |
| Tonight, Clinton will be flanked by candidates called Bernie Sanders and Martin O’Malley, and a couple of other guys, and under pressure to prove, after all her years in the public eye, she is finally the answer for Democratic voters – and for the country, including the 70% who tell Gallup they are “dissatisfied with the way things are going in the United States”. | Tonight, Clinton will be flanked by candidates called Bernie Sanders and Martin O’Malley, and a couple of other guys, and under pressure to prove, after all her years in the public eye, she is finally the answer for Democratic voters – and for the country, including the 70% who tell Gallup they are “dissatisfied with the way things are going in the United States”. |
| But it’s not all about Hillary Clinton. For about a quarter of Democrats, Sanders (CV here) has been right everywhere where Clinton (CV) has been sort of wrong – Bernie Sanders, they say, is right on the war on poverty, right on the climate, right on calling out discrimination. | But it’s not all about Hillary Clinton. For about a quarter of Democrats, Sanders (CV here) has been right everywhere where Clinton (CV) has been sort of wrong – Bernie Sanders, they say, is right on the war on poverty, right on the climate, right on calling out discrimination. |
| The contrast between Clinton and Sanders, side-by-side, will be one of the night’s main attractions at the Wynn on the Vegas Strip. But any of the three other candidates onstage – former Maryland governor Martin O’Malley (CV), former Virginia senator Jim Webb (CV) and former Rhode Island governor and senator Lincoln Chafee (CV) – has the potential to seize the conversation and define the evening. | The contrast between Clinton and Sanders, side-by-side, will be one of the night’s main attractions at the Wynn on the Vegas Strip. But any of the three other candidates onstage – former Maryland governor Martin O’Malley (CV), former Virginia senator Jim Webb (CV) and former Rhode Island governor and senator Lincoln Chafee (CV) – has the potential to seize the conversation and define the evening. |
| Is Clinton in trouble? Can Sanders expand his appeal? Will O’Malley or Webb have a breakout moment? Will Chafee repeat his calls to pardon Edward Snowden and encourage the US to adopt the metric system? We’ll be answering all those questions and some even more outlandish ones throughout the evening right here, with a cast of characters from Washington and way, way beyond: | Is Clinton in trouble? Can Sanders expand his appeal? Will O’Malley or Webb have a breakout moment? Will Chafee repeat his calls to pardon Edward Snowden and encourage the US to adopt the metric system? We’ll be answering all those questions and some even more outlandish ones throughout the evening right here, with a cast of characters from Washington and way, way beyond: |
| We promise not to take anything TOO seriously. But we also would not send you into this evening’s two-hour debate without screening this short film of interviews with voters on the streets of Las Vegas, from Sabrina Siddiqui and videographer Laurence Mathieu-Léger over the weekend. | We promise not to take anything TOO seriously. But we also would not send you into this evening’s two-hour debate without screening this short film of interviews with voters on the streets of Las Vegas, from Sabrina Siddiqui and videographer Laurence Mathieu-Léger over the weekend. |
| Updated at 11.37pm BST | Updated at 11.37pm BST |