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| Live Updates Ahead of Tonight’s Democratic Debate | Live Updates Ahead of Tonight’s Democratic Debate |
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| The Democratic debate will begin at 8 p.m. Eastern in Detroit, featuring 10 candidates including Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont, Senator Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts and Mayor Pete Buttigieg of South Bend, Ind. | |
| The candidates did walk-throughs of the Fox Theater debate site on Tuesday afternoon while some of their campaigns sent email to supporters asking for help meeting pre-debate fund-raising goals. | |
| In the hours before the debate, which will be broadcast on CNN, candidates were honing their opening statements. The June Democratic debates didn’t include opening statements, so these debates offer candidates a chance to pitch themselves before facing tough questions. | |
| The face-off between Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren has been billed as the marquee matchup of Tuesday’s debate. The two progressive standard-bearers share much in common in terms of policy, and at first glance they seem similarly situated in the polls: They each hold around 15 percent in the most recent surveys, placing them in a rough tie for second place behind Joseph R. Biden Jr. But there’s more divergence in their supporters than one might think. | The face-off between Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren has been billed as the marquee matchup of Tuesday’s debate. The two progressive standard-bearers share much in common in terms of policy, and at first glance they seem similarly situated in the polls: They each hold around 15 percent in the most recent surveys, placing them in a rough tie for second place behind Joseph R. Biden Jr. But there’s more divergence in their supporters than one might think. |
| Ms. Warren draws from a whiter, more affluent and better-educated group of Democrats; Mr. Sanders’s supporters, on the other hand, are younger, more diverse, less affluent and less likely to have graduated from college. | Ms. Warren draws from a whiter, more affluent and better-educated group of Democrats; Mr. Sanders’s supporters, on the other hand, are younger, more diverse, less affluent and less likely to have graduated from college. |
| And while Ms. Warren’s gains over the last several months might seem to have come at the expense of Mr. Sanders, it is not so clear whether the two candidates are competing for the same group of voters. Polls show that Senator Kamala Harris, not Mr. Sanders, is the second choice for a plurality of Ms. Warren’s supporters, according to Morning Consult polls. Perhaps surprisingly, Mr. Biden is the second choice for a plurality of Mr. Biden’s supporters. Should either falter, it is not obvious that the other stands to make outsize gains, at least in the polls. | |
| For now, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren trail Mr. Biden in no small part because of Mr. Biden’s support among older, more moderate and black voters. Many of the other candidates onstage Tuesday have similar challenges. | For now, Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren trail Mr. Biden in no small part because of Mr. Biden’s support among older, more moderate and black voters. Many of the other candidates onstage Tuesday have similar challenges. |
| Pete Buttigieg, for instance, draws from a particularly well-educated and white group of Democrats. It is enough to give him around 6 percent of Democrats nationwide, and a chance to compete in Iowa and New Hampshire, where voters are relatively white. But it will be difficult for him, or anyone, to contend for the nomination without broader support among nonwhite Democrats. | Pete Buttigieg, for instance, draws from a particularly well-educated and white group of Democrats. It is enough to give him around 6 percent of Democrats nationwide, and a chance to compete in Iowa and New Hampshire, where voters are relatively white. But it will be difficult for him, or anyone, to contend for the nomination without broader support among nonwhite Democrats. |
| The candidates are set to face off beneath the ornate colored-glass ceiling of the historic Fox Theater, a gilded Deco movie theater turned concert hall. Gold-leafed Corinthian columns frame the stage, and the walls are adorned with carved butterflies, griffins, and smiling Hindu deities. | |
| About 3,500 people are expected to attend in person, with tickets handed out mostly by the Democratic National Committee and state party groups. Each candidate is allotted a limited set of tickets, as well. | |
| For the hundreds of political reporters who have swarmed this Midwestern city, CNN is offering a full cash bar and grill in the so-called “press file,” where journalists gather in front of flat-screen TVs to watch the proceedings. The network rented out a local sports bar, Hockeytown Cafe, for the week, with deep dish pizzas and burgers on the menu. (No sign of Detroit’s famed “Coney dog,” topped with chili.) | |
| The National Confectioners Association — otherwise known as Big Candy — is also partnering with CNN to provide reporters with sweet refreshments, like Hershey Kisses. | |
| But journalists may be less enthused by the “spin room,” the area where candidates emerge post-debate to meet the press. CNN’s spin area is a relatively small patch of carpet, squeezed in on the sides by TV news camera stations. Expect some thrown elbows. | |
| Reported and written by Nate Cohn, Katie Glueck, Shane Goldmacher and Michael Grynbaum. |