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In response to a sweeping and controversial leadership shakeup at the Kennedy Center, U.S. Senator John Hickenlooper (D-co) turned to the arts as a form of action. What began as a phone call to powerhouse producer Jeffrey Seller (Hamilton) soon evolved into Love is Love, a celebratory Pride concert at the Kennedy Center’s Justice Forum, created in collaboration with Senators Tammy Baldwin, Elizabeth Warren, Jacky Rosen, and Brian Schatz. The evening, a revue chronicling the evolution of LGBTQ+ liberation, featured performances by composer Andrew Lippa, Tony Award-winners Brandon Uranowitz and John Cameron Mitchell, Jelani Remy, Beth Malone, Brandi Massey, Kathryn Gallagher, Javier Muñoz, Alexis Michelle, and Dylan Toms, along with powerful monologues by playwrights...

On June 23rd U.S. Senators John Hickenlooper, Tammy Baldwin, Elizabeth Warren, Jacky Rosen, and Brian Schatz hosted a Pride celebration and musical performance titled Love is Love, which was produced by acclaimed Broadway producer Jeffrey Seller, at the Kennedy Center’s Justice Forum. In the last years of the 20th century, and the early years of this century, gay marriage went from being vilified by some to being widely accepted. “Love is Love” is a celebration of the important role that Broadway, Hollywood, and other creative enterprises played in this dramatic transformation of the America we love. The actors and other creative talent who created this show gave their time and creative energy to recognize and amplify this cultural transformation. The Kennedy Center, long an outpost and a...

Back to the Future alum Jelani Remy is taking over our Instagram tonight to give our followers an inside look at the Pride event at the Kennedy Center. Tune in here to see an inside look at the concert, organized by Democratic senators in response to Trump's takeover of the Washington DC performing arts venue. As reported this morning, Colorado Senator John Hickenlooper has enlisted Jeffrey Seller, producer of Hamilton, to organize the concert. Seller previously canceled a planned 2026 run of Hamilton at the Kennedy Center, citing opposition to Trump’s vision for the venue. Joining Remy at the event will be John Cameron Mitchell (Hedwig and the Angry Inch), Lisa Kron (Fun Home), Andrew Lippa (I Am Harvey Milk), <a...

Updated, with Kennedy Center comment: Five Democratic senators will host an invitation-only Pride concert at the Kennedy Center Monday as a protest against President Donald Trump’s takeover of the Washington D.C. arts institution.

The 90-minute concert, which is expected to feature Broadway performers as well as The Gay Men’s Chorus of Washington D.C., is set for Monday night, The New York Times reports.

Organized by John Hickenlooper, D-Colo., the group of Senators – Hickenlooper, Tammy Baldwin of Wisconsin, Jacky Rosen of Nevada, Brian Schatz of Hawaii and Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts – have rented the Justice Forum, a 144-seat theater located in the Reach expansion of the Kennedy Center, using a privilege available to all members of Congress.

“What’s happening in the world is deeply concerning, but even in our darkest hours, we must continue to seek out the light,” Hickenlooper said in a statement. “The L.G.

The New York Times reports that five Democratic senators are staging a Pride event at The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts today as a symbolic protest against President Trump’s recent takeover of the institution. The senators rented the Justice Forum, a 144-seat theater within the Reach expansion of the Kennedy Center, using a privilege available to members of Congress. The event is scheduled for Monday night and will feature a 90-minute concert of songs and readings by Broadway performers. Senator John Hickenlooper of Colorado is hosting the event alongside Senators Tammy Baldwin of Wisconsin, Jacky Rosen of Nevada, Brian Schatz of Hawaii, and Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts. The concert is titled “Love Is Love,” a phrase widely used by the...

A coalition of Democratic senators and representatives is calling on the Biden administration to finalize its plans to limit marijuana prosecutions at the federal level before he leaves office.

In a Tuesday letter drafted by Sens. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) and Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) along with Reps. Barbara Lee (D-Calif.), Earl Blumenauer (D-Ore.), and Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.), legislators wrote that the simple descheduling of marijuana “will not end federal criminalization, resolve its harms, or meaningfully address the gap between federal and state cannabis policy. Possession and use of recreational marijuana — and...

More than 26 million viewers tuned in to watch Vice President Kamala Harris accept her party’s historic nomination for President of the United States, at the Democratic National Convention on Thursday night.

Night 4 of the DNC was broadcast live from Chicago from approximately 9 pm to 11:30 pm Et, and carried on 15 networks monitored by Nielsen (with “varied” coverage on each).

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New Jersey Senator Bob Menendez is facing a rapidly growing number of calls from his Democratic colleagues to resign from office following a damning indictment on charges of corruption and bribery.

On Wednesday, Menendez pleaded not guilty to the charges during his arraignment in Manhattan court.

The indictment, which was made public on Friday, was initially met with widespread silence from Senate Democrats, save for Pennsylvania’s John Fetterman, who on Saturday called for Menendez’s resignation. “Senator Menendez should resign,” he wrote. “He’s entitled to the presumption of innocence,...

On the JoBlo Movies YouTube channel, we will be posting one full movie every day of the week, giving viewers the chance to watch them entirely free of charge. Today’s Free Movie of the Day is the true crime “dramedy” Casino Jack, which first premiered in 2010 and stars Kevin Spacey as the title character. You can watch it over on the YouTube channel linked above, or you can just watch it in the embed at the top of this article.

Directed by George Hickenlooper from a screenplay written by Norman Snider, Casino Jack has the following synopsis: A hot shot Washington DC lobbyist and his protégé go down hard as their schemes to peddle influence lead to corruption and murder.

Spacey is joined in the cast by Barry Pepper, Kelly Preston, Jon Lovitz, Rachelle Lefevre, Graham Greene, Ruth Marshall, Hannah Endicott-Douglas, John Robinson, Jason Weinberg, Spencer Garrett, Yok Come Ho,...

This week, a sold-out crowd gathered in Aspen, Colorado for the Latinx House’s inaugural Raizado Festival, a three-day event filled with music, art exhibitions, film screenings, panel discussions, and more. Planned as an opportunity to highlight issues and achievements in the Latino community — particularly in an area known for events that attract white, wealthy elites — the festival included headlining performances by massive names in the Latin music industry, including Mexican star Belinda and the rising regional singer-songwriter Lupita Infante.

Both artists were drawn to the festival’s mission of uplifting Latinos across the country,...

Rep. Joe Neguse, a young Democrat from Colorado, rose to speak, full of an unfailing faith in American democracy. This moment was set to be one of the most important of his short career so far in Congress. At age 36, Neguse had only just been sworn in for his second two-year term, but already he’d distinguished himself enough among his 220 Democratic peers that he was enlisted to be part of the small team tasked with arguing against the objections Republicans were expected to raise to Joe Biden’s certification as president-elect that day,...

As 2020 election results roll in, control of the Senate remains in the balance — and everything may all come down to Georgia.

The math is not complicated. In the current Senate, Republicans hold a three-seat advantage, 53-47. If Biden wins the presidency, as appears increasingly likely, Vice President Kamala Harris would sit as the Senate’s tie-breaker, and Democrats would need a net gain of three seats to control the chamber. (If Trump wins, Democrats would need to net four seats.)

With projected Senate wins in Arizona and Colorado, and a loss in Alabama,...

For Democrats determined to solve America’s biggest problems, dislodging Donald Trump is only part of the challenge on Election Day. To advance legislation targeting climate change, pandemic relief, voting rights, higher taxes on corporations and the rich, and to begin the work of rebalancing the federal courts, Democrats need to flip the Senate.

Republicans currently hold a three-seat advantage, 53-47, and the GOP is likely to pick up one seat in 2020, unless lonely deep-south Democrat Sen. Doug Jones can turn back a crimson tide in Alabama. That means that...

Internationally acclaimed Denver band The Lumineers have tallied over $600,000 in donations thus far resulting from their recent “Colorado Gives Back” live stream concert to benefit restaurant and music industry workers impacted by Covid-19.

The live streaming event was broadcast on The Lumineers YouTube Channel and featured an all-star lineup including The Lumineers, OneRepublic, Jewel, Nathaniel Rateliff, as well as special guests including legendary NFL quarterback Peyton Manning, two-time Olympic gold medalist Mikaela Shiffrin (USA Ski Team), former Colorado Governor John Hickenlooper and current Colorado Governor Jared Polis.

“Colorado Gives Back” was created to benefit and bring awareness to individuals in the national music community as well as those in the Colorado restaurant services industry who have lost their income and revenue due to the Covid-19 pandemic. Donations will be directed to the Colorado Restaurant Association and to the Recording Academy’s MusiCares, which has a partnership with the Spotify Covid-19 Music Relief project,...

The Lumineers are lending their home state of Colorado a helping hand with a livestream fundraiser, Colorado Gives Back, to take place Friday from 3:00 p.m. to 6:00 p.m. Et on the band’s YouTube channel.

The all-star lineup will feature the Denver-based group and other musical guests including OneRepublic, Jewel and Nathaniel Rateliff, as well as former Colorado Governor John Hickenlooper, NFL quarterback Peyton Manning, two-time Olympic gold medal skier Mikaela Shiffrin and Colorado Governor Jared Polis.

The livestream is meant to help benefit Colorado musicians and...

ABC News on Thursday confirmed that just 10 democratic presidential hopefuls qualify for its upcoming debate, which will be held in Houston, Texas this September.

According to The New York Times, candidates had until Wednesday night at 11:59 pm to meet the Democratic National Committee’s qualification requirements. In order to make it to the main stage, a candidate had to amass 130,000 individual donors and receive two-percent support in at least four qualifying polls. The 10 candidates who met those requirements are:

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The tweet seems harmless enough, on the surface. The Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee’s account slapped its logo atop a John Hickenlooper for Colorado ad and gave the presidential dropout a big thumbs up.

Hickenlooper, the Dscc wrote, “is running against Cory Gardner — the most vulnerable Republican up in 2020! If we want to end the gridlock, cut the costs of health care and prescription drugs, and act on climate — we need to flip this #COSen seat.”

The Democratic Party endorsing a former Democratic governor in a Senate race may not sound like a headline.

Mark Kelly, the fighter pilot-turned-astronaut and husband of retired congresswoman Gabby Giffords, announced in February that he is running to unseat Sen. Martha McSally (R-Ariz.) in 2020. His campaign has been doing quite well. In July, it announced that Kelly had raised $4.2 million in the second quarter, more than all but six presidential candidates. Kelly’s campaign manager called the haul a “sonic boom.” Get it?

On Tuesday, an Arizona poll showed Kelly leading McSally — who lost her 2018 race against Sen. Kyrsten Sinema (D-Ariz.) but was appointed by the state’s...

Just hours after the New York City Medical Examiner confirmed Jeffrey Epstein's cause of death, Bill Maher took jabs at the accused sex trafficker on Friday's Real Time With Bill Maher on HBO.

Before going after Epstein, Maher first hit on John Hickenlooper ending his presidential bid, saying, "He just wants to go back to what he does best — looping Hickens."

The host then moved onto Donald Trump, noting that the president reportedly wanting to buy Greenland isn't too surprising, since he'd likely rename the country "New Ivanka."

Referring to the Dow Jones ...

Former Colorado governor John Hickenlooper is ending his Presidential bid on Thursday, fueling speculation he might dive into another crowded primary field and join the 13 Democrats already vying for a chance to challenge Cory Gardner, the Republican Senator from Colorado, in 2020.

This morning, I’m announcing that I’m no longer running for President. While this campaign didn’t have the outcome we were hoping for, every moment has been worthwhile & I’m thankful to everyone who supported this campaign and our entire team.https://t.co/1ijSjkbzzd

— John Hickenlooper...

On Saturday, at a shopping mall in El Paso, Texas, a gunman killed at least 20 people, according to Governor Greg Abbott. Dozens more were injured and the number of fatalities could rise. According to police, one suspect is in custody.

President Donald Trump, Vice President Mike Pence and the Democratic presidential contenders reacted to the shooting on Twitter:

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The top 20 Democratic presidential candidates will face off once again in a two-day, televised debate hosted by CNN this week.

Filmed live at the Fox Theater in Detroit, the debates will take place on Tuesday, July 30 and Wednesday, July 31, beginning at 5 p.m. Pt/8 p.m. Et each night. CNN’s Dana Bash, Don Lemon, and Jake Tapper will moderate both evenings.

How to watch

The debates will air on CNN and CNN en Español and can be streamed online for free via CNN.com or CNN’s app.

Who’s debating?

Tonight’s debate will include 10 candidates: Michael Bennet, Kirsten Gillibrand, Julián Castro, Cory Booker, Joe Biden, Kamala Harris, Andrew Yang, Tulsi Gabbard, Jay Inslee, and Bill de Blasio.

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Last night’s debate featured Marianne Williamson; Tim Ryan; Amy Klobuchar; Pete Buttigieg; Bernie Sanders; Elizabeth Warren; Beto...

The first night of the debate in Detroit turned conventional Democratic political dynamics on their ear.

In the normal state of affairs, politicians calling for modest course corrections are given the presumption of virtuousness on the public stage, while candidates calling for transformation are forced to make the difficult case for change.

But on the stage at the Fox theater Tuesday night, the candidates who had to fight to justify the righteousness of their path were not the tag-teaming progressives demanding sweeping changes — to health, tax and environmental policy. Rather...

Even though CNN split the Democratic presidential candidates into two halves for its latest televised debates, processing all the platforms and campaign promises on night one was exhausting. Enter Stephen Colbert, who gleefully mocked the political chaos in his live post-debate Late Show monologue on Wednesday. The host generated punchlines from the evening’s most talked-about moments — from lesser-known candidates taking aim at frontrunners Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders to Marianne Williamson lamenting President Trump’s “dark psychic force.”

“It’s hard to sum up what happened tonight,” Colbert noted early on.

At the Democratic primary debate on Tuesday, Marianne Williamson had a blunt response when asked to explain the $500 million she argues should be paid as reparations to the descendants of slaves: “Anything less than $100 billion is an insult.”

Asked by moderator Don Lemon why she says $500 billion was an appropriate amount, Williamson said “It’s $200 to $500 billion dollars payment of a debt that is owed. That is what reparations is.”

“It is time for us to simply realize that … when it comes to the economic gap between blacks and whites in America, it does come from a great injustice that has never been dealt with,” she continued. Then, referencing “40 acres and a mule,” Williamson added, “If you did the math today, it would be trillions of dollars, and I believe that anything less than $100 billion is an insult.” Watch the clip above.

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Elizabeth Warren scored one of the most talked-about moments during Tuesday’s Democratic primary debate, when she essentially asked former Maryland congressman John Delaney why he’s even bothering to run for president.

During the night, Delaney frequently criticized policies advanced by Warren, calling ideas like Medicare for All “impossible promises” and “more free stuff.” He later said that Democrats need “real solutions, not impossible promises” to win, and called Warren’s policy positions “fairy tale economics.”

Asked for a response by moderator Jake Tapper, Warren said: “I don’t understand why anybody goes to all the trouble of running for president of the United States just to talk about what we really can’t do and shouldn’t fight for,” she said. “I don’t get it.” The line was met with some of the biggest applause of the night.

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The first night of the Democrats’ second round of presidential debates of the 2020 election cycle was billed as a matchup between Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, and the two contenders did not disappoint on the CNN-hosted huddle as they faced The Bachelorette season finale on ABC.

In tone and temperament, the two pageants were similar tonight in their search for love and ratings — intentionally or not. Coming in hot and fiery from the start on their mutual policy of “Medicare for All” and railing against the rich and a “corrupt, rigged system,” to quote the Massachusetts senator, the two progressive parental figures went straight for the heart and soul of their party. It was a dash that might leave Joe Biden and Donald Trump as the real winners of tonight’s near-endless debate, in no small part thanks to ex-Today producer Jeff Zucker.

Emphasizing style over structure and in...

Health care spending makes up somewhere around a fifth of the U.S. economy. It affects every American, and is a life-or-death issue for millions of them every year. And here in the United States, where we spend more on care but die younger than in comparable countries, it’s a mess.

So let us know how you’d fix it in 15 seconds.

That was the proposition CNN made to Democratic candidates on Tuesday night. Believe it or not, it didn’t go well.

Moderator Jake Tapper initially framed the...

Sen. Bernie Sanders had strong words for Tim Ryan on Tuesday after the Ohio congressman claimed that Sanders couldn’t know whether Union members would get better health care coverage under Medicare For All than from their union plan.

During Tuesday night’s Democratic primary debate, Sanders said his Medicare for all plan would provide comprehensive coverage — particularly “dental care, hearing aids, and eyeglasses” for senior citizens. Ryan interrupted, saying “but you don’t know that. You don’t know that, Bernie.”

“I do know,” Sanders snapped back. “I wrote the damn bill.”

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The Vermont senator continued by saying that rather than putting money into health care, union members’ companies could instead direct that funding toward raising wages for workers.

Moments after Sanders’s line, stickers brandishing the line were being sold on the candidate’s Twitter account.

The 2020 Democratic presidential candidates are set to face off once again. This time they’ll be meeting at the Fox Theatre in Detroit.

CNN is airing round two of Democratic National Committee-sanctioned debates. With the still crowded field of candidates, the match-ups will take place over two nights — Tuesday, July 30 and Wednesday, July 31.

Dana Bash, Don Lemon and Jake Tapper will serve together as moderators, with the debates airing live from 8 p.m. to 10 p.m. Et on both nights.

For those who don’t have cable, CNN says the debates will stream live, without requiring a log-in to a cable provider, on CNN.com, CNN’s apps for iOS and Android and via CNNgo apps for Apple TV, Roku, Amazon Fire, Chromecast, and Android TV.

Fox News and MSNBC will also be offering extensive pre- and post-debate coverage.

The 20 Democratic candidates have been split into two groups, just...

Cable news coverage of politics has hit a new low. The next new low will probably be next week, but still. CNN’s NBA-style debate lottery Thursday night degraded us all.

“The Leader” held a special segment for the randomized determination of the order for Democratic Party presidential debates on July 30 and 31. They gave the show a snappy marketing title: “The Draw” – and had half the network doing promos and commentary. Anderson Cooper probably woke up this morning wanting a long shower.

After “The Draw,” the network had even had panels doing post-draft analyses.

Thursday night, CNN revealed which of the 20 top Democratic presidential hopefuls would be sharing the stage on which night of the second round of debates, which will be held in Detroit at the end of the month.

The 10-candidate lineup for Night 1 includes Elizabeth Warren, Bernie Sanders, Amy Klobuchar and Pete Buttigieg. Among those hitting the stage on Night 2 are Joe Biden, Kamala Harris, Julian Castro and Cory Booker. The moderators for these debates will be CNN’s Dana Bash, Don Lemon and Jake Tapper.

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Former Vice President Joe Biden and Senator Kamala Harris will have the opportunity to square off again in the second debate among Democratic hopefuls vying for their party’s nomination in the 2020 presidential election

CNN, which will broadcast the next round of debates on July 30 and 31, televised a draw Thursday night that decided the date on which each of 20 different candidates will appear – a unique and unorthodox maneuver in the world of political news coverage.

The results also determined that Senator Bernie Sanders would have a chance to debate directly with Senator Elizabeth Warren on the first night of the debates.

Harris and Biden clashed in the last debate event, televised over two nights by NBCUniversal via NBC, Telemundo and MSNBC. During the second night, Harris appeared to gain traction by criticizing Biden’s efforts to work with politicians who held segregationist views. Biden was attempting to show how he...

Updated with podium positions: Call it The Rematch. CNN picked the field for the July 30 and 31 Democratic debates tonight, and former Vice President Joe Biden will get another chance to square off against Sen. Kamala Harris of California, this time on Night 2 of Round 2. The duo, who famously clashed during the first debates last month, will stand side by side this time.

As for the two other leading candidates, Sens. Bernie Sanders of Vermont and Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts will face off on Night 1.

In an election cycle that features a remarkable amount of diversity among the candidate, it’s notable that the entire field of the July 30 first debate is made up of white candidates.

The 20 Dems will square off in the cycle’s second pair of 10-person debates in two weeks, and CNN’s unique on-air lottery of sorts determined who will be taking their talents where and when.

Tom Steyer, the Democratic billionaire impeach-Trump activist who not so long ago vowed to keep his own name out of the 2020 running, has changed his mind, tossing his hat and $100 million of his own money into the ring.

Hollywood doesn’t seem impressed. “No Tom, just… no,” tweeted Yvette Nicole Brown.

Granted, it’s early days – early minutes, actually – but the response on social media to Steyer’s decision doesn’t seem encouraging.

“We need to stop the practice of billionaires trying to buy elections,” Cynthia Nixon tweeted. “@TomSteyer, think of all the good your $100 million could do for the environment, rather than trying to muscle your way into an already over-crowded and very promising presidential field.”

Tweeted Brown, “No Tom, just… no. This does Not help! Why don’t they get it?! None of these rich dudes seem to get it! We have 20+ candidates! Many are great. Three or four are exemplary.

The official disclosure deadline is not until July 15th, but 2020 candidates are already touting the millions they raised in the second quarter of 2019.

The top rainmaker of the quarter, by far, is President Donald Trump. His campaign, in conjunction with the Republican National Committee, says it raised $105 million from April through June, in line with the target of raising $1 billion in re-election funds. Trump officials have bragged the bounty gives the campaign enough money to begin targeting unlikely battlegrounds, including habitually blue states like Minnesota, New Mexico, and Oregon.

On the Democratic side,...

Bill Maher says there’s “overcrowding” among the Democratic presidential field and some of the candidates should “get the f–k out.”

Maher weighed in on this week’s two-night Democratic debate and said time’s up for half of the 20 candidates who qualified for the match-up.

“Look, there’s too many people in this race, right?” he said Friday night on HBO’s Real Time.

Maher then turned to his guest panel, made up of author Max Brooks, New Yorker writer Adam Gopnik and MSNBC’s Joy Ann Reid, and told them he was going to cull the field of presidential hopefuls, although he did give his guests veto rights.

“I’m going to get rid of ten of them right now,” Maher quipped while holding a stack of the candidates’ headshots.

It's time for some of these candidates to Gtfo. Watch @BillMaher cull the Democratic herd with @MaxBrooksAuthor,...

Bill Maher weighed in on both Democratic debates on HBO’s “Real Time” Friday night, and suggested the immediate exit of half the field of candidates.

“Look, there’s too many people in this race, right?” Maher asked, holding a stack of the candidates’ headshots. “I’m going to get rid of ten of them right now.”

The ten presidential hopefuls he told to “get the f–k out” were: John Hickenlooper, Michael Bennet, John Delaney, Tim Ryan, Kirsten Gillibrand, Eric Swalwell, Marianne Williamson, Andrew Yang, Beto O’Rourke and Bill de Blasio.

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Some, like Hickenlooper and Delaney, got off easy; Maher had nothing more to say other than they were “nice guys.” Addressing Gillibrand, Maher said “Al Franken says hello” (she led the charge for his resignation), and...

Joe Biden wasn’t mentioned at all by Elizabeth Warren and the nine Democratic dwarfs Wednesday night at the first debate. But today the former Vice President and clear 2020 front-runner was center stage in Miami and the man to beat.

Even with Biden, a breakout by Senator Kamala Harris, Senator Bernie Sanders, the booster rocket shedding Pete Buttigieg, and six other contenders on stage in Miami, the upshot was a primetime of compelling television that was less policy wonk central, and more about putting the electoral fate of the most powerful country on Earth front and center with a potential Potus or two.

To that end, from little known Congressmen and Senators, with the noted exception of Sanders throughout most of the second hour of tonight’s two-hour debate, blooding Biden became the main aim of most of the Democrats double digits behind him and a California Senator who saw her moment.

And another 10 contenders for the Democratic party’s presidential nomination faced off at Miami’s Adrienne Arsht Center for Performing Arts on Thursday night.

For two hours, the candidates — Michael Bennet, Joe Biden, Pete Buttigieg, Kirsten Gillibrand, Kamala Harris, John Hickenlooper, Bernie Sanders, Eric Swalwell, Marianne Williamson and Andrew Yang — fielded questions from NBC’s Savannah Guthrie, Lester Holt and Chuck Todd, MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow and Telemundo’s José Diaz-Balart. (From the Night 1 crop, Elizabeth Warren, Julian Castro and Cory Booker emerged as the “winners“, per a TVLine poll.)

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We may still be more than 16 months away from the next United States presidential election, and more than seven months until the first primary election, but the fun is already getting started as Democratic candidates kick off debate season on NBC News’ two-night debate series that will bring out a whopping 20 candidates to talk about the issues.

The first part, on Wednesday night, was perhaps surprisingly eventful, and hopefully the follow-up will match it.

The debate is broken up into two nights because there are so many candidates — each night features ten of them. And with the debates being hosted by NBC News, you can catch the broadcasts on TV on NBC and MSNBC, with a Spanish broadcast on Telemundo.

The first debate was Wednesday night and featured Elizabeth Warren, Corey Booker, Amy Klobuchar, Beto O’Rourke, Julian Castro, Tim Ryan, Bill de Blasio, Jay Inslee, John Delaney and Tulsi Gabbard.

American voters got their first official introduction to the Democratic Party’s 2020 presidential hopefuls — well, at least some of ’em — in a densely populated debate Wednesday evening.

The inaugural Democratic presidential forum of the 2020 election cycle found 10 contenders for the party’s nomination facing off at Miami’s Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts. For two hours, the candidates — Cory Booker, Julián Castro, Bill de Blasio, John Delaney, Tulsi Gabbard, Jay Inslee, Amy Klobuchar, Beto O’Rourke, Tim Ryan and Elizabeth Warren — fielded questions from NBC’s Savannah Guthrie, Lester Holt and Chuck Todd, MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow and Telemundo’s José Diaz-Balart.

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After months of laying out their policy proposals and jockeying for media attention, 20 of the top Democratic presidential hopefuls will step onstage for the biggest moment of their campaigns this week. The first set of Democratic primary debates will be held Wednesday, June 26th and Thursday, June 27th, and though votes won’t be cast in Iowa for another seven months, how the candidates perform behind a podium will go a long way shaping the public’s perception of how they’ll fare against President Trump.

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The first Democratic primary debates for the 2020 presidential election will be held later this month in Miami across two nights, and aired on NBC, and now we know which of the (many) candidates will be sharing a stage with whom.

Per the New York Times, the 10-person lineup for Wednesday, June 26, includes Elizabeth Warren, Cory Booker and Amy Klobuchar. Then on Thursday, June 27, Joe Biden, Pete Buttigieg, Kamala Harris and Bernie Sanders will be among the debaters.

The debates will be moderated by NBC’s Savannah Guthrie, Lester Holt and Chuck Todd, Telemundo’s José Díaz-Balart and MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow.

The 2020 Democratic presidential primary is shaping up to be an outsize field, with two dozen declared candidates in the running. On Tuesday, Jimmy Kimmel Live! unveiled a song to help voters remember them all.

Kimmel’s jaunty piano singalong bounced through the names of all 24 major contenders, from party frontrunners (Joe Biden) to more obscure choices (former Colorado governor John Hickenlooper). While the song didn’t dive into how Cory Booker’s proposed policy platform differs from that of, say, Bernie Sanders, it did tell the audience how to properly pronounce “Pete Buttigieg.

Updated with video: The journalists at CBS This Morning asked the cast of the network’s The Big Bang Theory all the predictable questions Thursday morning, before the long-running series’ finale. Clever Stephen Colbert got the cast to anonymously write better ones for him to ask in their interview on The Late Show.

Specifically, one anonymous cast member wanted to ask the entire cast, “Did anyone ever have sex in their dressing room?” One cast member fessed up.

Meanwhile, a fan tried to finally have revealed to the world what was Penny’s last name before marrying Leonard. Kaley Cuoco continued to insist there is no answer to that question, and that her character having only a first name became superstitiously important to her over the 12-year run of the show.

The writers were under enormous pressure as they worked on the series finale, various actors described to Colbert. Jim Parsons...

“Hello, it’s great to be back at Carnegie Hall. Despite Lindsey Graham’s advice, I honored my subpoena to be here today,” Stephen Colbert snarked as he took the stage at CBS’ annual Carnegie Hall Upfront presentation.

Like TBS’ Conan O’Brien, NBC’s Seth Meyers, and especially ABC’s Jimmy Kimmel, the CBS late-night host’s Upfront performance has become institution.

Colbert poked fun at the network and the media buyers in the audience, but mostly lobbed grenades in the general direction of the Trump administration and its minions.

And of course, Colbert made that crack about ousted CBS CEO Les Moonves that tore up the trades Wednesday evening.

“Today is about about you advertisers,” Colbert gushed at media buyers who filled Carnegie Hall.

“This your chance to sit back and let us sell to you! And because I respect you, we’re not going to destroy the show by adding commercials.

Bernie Sanders has accomplished something no one in American politics has managed for decades: He’s uniting Democrats and Republicans.

It’s early yet, but talking points for the 2020 campaign season are emerging on both sides of the aisle. Republicans and Democrats both have been trying to sell the rise of politicians like Bernie Sanders, Elizabeth Warren and others as stalking horses for the overthrow of capitalism.

Noted Gop pollster Frank Luntz appeared with Howard Kurtz on the Fox “MediaBuzz” program. It was typical ring-around-the-collar news marketing, telling audiences something scary,...

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Sen. Michael Bennet (D-co) announced on Thursday that he is running for president. He broke the news to John Dickerson on CBS This Morning. “I think this country faces two enormous challenges,” Bennet said. “One is a lack of economic mobility and opportunity for most Americans. The other is the need to restore integrity to our government. I think we need to do both of those things.”

Bennet also released a campaign video titled “7,591 words,...