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More than 9,000,000 people have voted in Texas, already surpassing the entirety of the ballots cast in 2016. That had been an all-time record. The turnout is just one sign that this election is different, and Julián Castro is thankful to be home to witness it.

In past campaigns, it would have been assumed that the former Housing and Urban Development secretary would have been dispatched to swing states such as Florida, Pennsylvania, or Wisconsin, where his appeal with Latinx voters and those primarily focused on social-justice issues might help the Democratic ticket.

Refresh for updates: Influential voices ranging from Hollywood stars to politicians flocked to Twitter to share their support for the Milwaukee Bucks, who opted out of Wednesday’s NBA playoff game against the Orlando Magic in response to the Kenosha, Wisconsin shooting of Jacob Blake.

Kenosha police officers shot Blake multiple times in the back on Sunday. Footage of the encounter has since gone viral and sparked several protests in multiple states including California.

The NBA, following the Bucks’ walking off the court, announced Wednesday afternoon that it will postpone all of tonight’s playoff games. Major League Baseball has later followed suit, postponing the Milwaukee Brewers-Cincinnati Reds and Seattle Mariners-San Diego Padres games.

Figures from all sorts of industries, from entertainment to sports, responded to the. Milwaukee team’s demonstration. Some called the NBA’s decision to postpone the games “a pivot point for the...

On Wednesday, Donald Trump tried out a new pitch on the suburbanites he is desperate to win back over before November: Stick with me, and the Poors won’t be allowed to bother you! In an announcement on Twitter addressed to “all of the people living their Suburban Lifestyle Dream,” the president declared he has ended the Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing rule.

I am happy to inform all of the people living their Suburban Lifestyle Dream that you will no longer be bothered or financially hurt by having low income housing built in your neighborhood…...

In the immediate wake of someone suspending her or his campaign, both our elected officials and we in the press who cover them focus too acutely on the question of endorsements. It is an ugly, gossipy trend that distorts the very purpose of public service, placing more emphasis on what candidates can do for one another rather than what they can do for the voters. With the urgency of full bladders, pundits immediately pivot to asking who the fallen contender will support — and fans of the frontrunners go online to make their voices heard.

It shouldn’t be difficult to determine who is winning this. Bernie Sanders is the only candidate who has shown the ability thus far to form any kind of firm base within the Democratic electorate — younger voters who may find him personally popular even more so than a platform that Republicans are counting on to scare a more moderate American electorate. That last part may be why political intelligentsia seems to be having a devil of a time with this race. The way that CNN and MSNBC covered Sanders’s narrow New Hampshire primary win,...

Sen. Cory Booker (D-n.J.) on Monday suspended his run for the Democratic presidential nomination, days after failing to qualify for a debate that his campaign had hoped would bolster his campaign’s struggling finances.

Booker follows former candidate Julián Castro, who also left the race this month, leaving the Democratic field with two candidates of color: former Massachusetts governor Deval Patrick and Andrew Yang.

“I will carry this fight forward — I just won’t be doing it as a candidate for president this year,” Booker wrote in an email to supporters,...

Former Democratic presidential candidate Julián Castro announced Monday that he is endorsing Elizabeth Warren in the race he pulled out of just days ago.

Though 15 Democrats have already dropped out of the 2020 primary, Castro, the most recent to do so, is one of only two to have formally endorsed another candidate to land the nomination. Rep. Tim Ryan (D-Ohio) endorsed former vice president Joe Biden in November. But Castro’s announcement Monday morning was more than a simple vote of confidence. He starred in a fresh campaign video for Warren centered around his endorsement,...

Pour out a 40 for Beto O’Rourke and Kamala Harris, two “top tier” candidates who recently exited the race for the Democratic Party nomination. The debate tonight in Los Angeles, the sixth in this interminable, gaffe-filled, weirdly depressing primary battle, has been pared down to seven qualifying combatants.

This is the stage of the horror movie when the few surviving campers band together in the canoe shed, build a booby trap out of fishing tackle and a lantern battery, and plot strategies for escape. We get to know the lead actors...

Like Pete Buttigieg, I’ve been the guy dispatched by a more senior television producer to get a camera crew into a place where we are unwelcome. Investigative journalist Renee Ferguson told The Washington Post’s Robert Samuels the story of how the current South Bend, Indiana, mayor and presidential upstart, then her collegian intern and the only white person on her otherwise all-black crew, turned out to be the only person allowed admission into a building’s basement. He would go on to film what would become Emmy-winning undercover...

All seven of the Democratic presidential candidates who qualified for next week’s debate at Loyola Marymount University in California have said they refuse to cross the picket line resulting from a culinary worker strike at the university. Sen. Elizabeth Warren, Sen. Bernie Sanders, Sen. Amy Klobuchar, Mayor Pete Buttigieg, Tom Steyer and Andrew Yang, all of the candidates shared on Twitter that they will not attend next week’s Democratic debate. Candidates Sen. Cory Booker and Julián Castro have also expressed support for the union, although neither qualified for this debate.

The fifth Democratic debate in the 2020 presidential election cycle is Wednesday beginning at 9 Pm Et/6 Pm Pt, hosted by MSNBC and the Washington Post live from Tyler Perry Studios in Atlanta. The 10-candidate lineup will be questioned by moderators Rachel Maddow, Andrea Mitchell, Kristen Welker of MSNBC and Ashley Parker of the Post.

The two-hour debate will air live exclusively on MSNBC, and livestream on NBC News and MSNBC digital platforms, the Post‘s web and mobile apps and Urban One’s digital platforms. It will also air live on SiriusXM Channel 118, and TuneIn.

The total number of candidates is down from the 12 who participated in the last debate October 15 hosted by CNN. Tonight’s field qualified by reaching a tougher-than-previous 3% percent of support in at least four early state or national polls recognized by the Democratic National Committee, and have 165,000 unique donors.

Those making the cut for the stage...

Washington — It’s not uncommon for struggling presidential candidates to blast their party’s nominating process, especially the decision to let Iowa and New Hampshire host the all-important opening two contests of the primary campaign.

The latest candidate to take aim at Iowa and New Hampshire — states with overwhelmingly white populations — is Julián Castro. The Texas Democrat and former Housing and Urban Development secretary has run one of the most progressive campaigns of any Democrat in the field. He released sweeping plans to tackle immigration and police brutality. He was...

Marquis A. Jefferson, whose only child, Atatiana Jefferson, was shot in her home by police less than a month ago, died on Saturday. He was 59 years-old. Atatiana was shot through a window of her house on October 12 by a police officer who was supposed to be conducting a wellness check.

“He ultimately just succumbed to, I don’t know, I can only say a broken heart,” family spokesman Bruce Carter said. “He just never recovered from the grieving process.”

Marquis Jefferson is yet another example of how police killings can...

When Julián Castro began telling me about the kind of person he is working to help, both with his campaign and with his new sweeping social-justice proposal, he started to talk about Freddie Gray. “He was the victim of police abuse,” Castro said over the phone about the 2015 homicide of the 25-year-old Baltimore man in police custody, sparking an uprising in the city that turned violent. “But I remember that he was also the victim of lead poisoning.”

We hear less about Gray’s history with lead than that Cvs...

Last night’s Democratic debate, which saw frontrunner Elizabeth Warren come under attack from all sides, drew around 8.3 million total viewers on CNN.

That viewership figure is down 46% on the first NBC debate which was watched by 15.3 million viewers, and also on the two previous CNN debates which garnered 10.7 million (down 22%) and 9 million (down 8%) respectively. None of the Democratic debates so far in this cycle have come near to the 24 million viewership figure posted by Donald Trump’s first debate on Fox News in August of 2015. According to CNN, 9.2 million viewers live streamed the debate in total on both the network’s and NY Times’ digital platforms.

Warren was joined on stage last night by fellow frontrunners Vermont senator Bernie Sanders and former vice president Joe Biden, as well as nine other potential Democratic candidates: New Jersey senator Cory Booker, mayor of South Bend, Ind., Pete Buttigieg, former housing and urban development secretary Julián Castro,...

The fourth Democratic debate was dangerously close to being substantive. For almost three (3!) hours, the twelve (12!) candidates onstage tackled questions on foreign policy, reproductive rights, health care, gun control, big tech, and the opioid crisis. While the other debates — and indeed, the entire 2016 presidential campaign — have been marked by meme-able moments and gaffes, the one co-hosted tonight by CNN and “The New York Times” largely featured candidates who know where they stand and what they wanted to say in order to distinguish themselves from the crowd. For every confusing diversion or stumble, there were far more answers with some actual meat to them. It was, to be frank, a surprising deviation from the norm, which has so often seen moderators and candidates alike fighting to create the splashiest moments possible.

And then, with 15 minutes to go, co-moderator Anderson Cooper turned to the final, most ridiculous question of the evening: “Last week,...

For the first time since Nancy Pelosi launched the impeachment inquiry into President Trump, the top 12 Democratic primary candidates will take part in a debate. This marks the fourth Democratic primary debate of the 2020 campaign season.

The event is co-hosted by CNN and the New York Times and will be held at Otterbein University in Westerville, Ohio where it will air at 8 p.m. Est on CNN, CNN International and CNN en Español while streaming exclusively on of the homepages of CNN and the New York Times. The debate will be moderated by CNN anchors Erin Burnett and Anderson Cooper along with New York Times national editor Marc Lacey.

Frontrunners Vermont senator Bernie Sanders, former vice president Joe Biden and Massachusetts senator Elizabeth Warren will be joined by the nine other potential Democratic candidates: New Jersey senator Cory Booker, mayor of South Bend, Ind., Pete Buttigieg, former housing and urban development secretary Julián Castro,...

Maybe you thought that as time went on, the Democratic Party debates would become less chaotic, and easier to follow.

Fooled you! Chapter four in the series of Democratic Party debates begins tonight in Westerville, Ohio, on the Otterbein University campus, and instead of ten candidates onstage, which has been the format to date, we will now have twelve. The list includes Joe Biden, Julián Castro, Cory Booker, Amy Klobuchar, Pete Buttigieg, Julián Castro, Tulsi Gabbard, Andrew Yang, Kamala Harris, Beto O’Rourke, Bernie Sanders, Tom Steyer, Elizabeth Warren.

The...

Saturday Night Live took on CNN’s Lgbtq Town Hall, with a little help from Emmy-winning Pose actor Billy Porter.

Porter served as the ultra-dramatic announcer on SNL’s version of the Democratic town hall, which took place Thursday in Los Angeles.

Impeccably dressed in a red and black smoking jacket and bedazzled glasses, Porter kicked off the cold open by introducing New Jersey Sen. Cory Booker, played by SNL regular Chris Redd.

“He may live in the projects, but ladies, he ain’t no project. It’s Cory Booker!” Porter said about the senator.

Redd’s Booker assured the audience he’s familiar with Lgbtq issues, thanks to his actress girlfriend, Rosario Dawson.

“My girlfriend was in Rent, so I get it,” he said.

Porter then announced openly gay Democratic contender, South Bend, Indiana Mayor Pete Buttigieg, played by “Weekend Update” co-anchor Colin Jost.

“Yes! Representing the house of booty-gig,...

Daryl Morey did the right thing — at first.

In a Friday night tweet that he has since deleted, the Houston Rockets general manager expressed support for the legions of protesters who have taken to the streets of Hong Kong.

The demonstrations started as a protest against a new Chinese extradition bill that opponents believe would lead to the disappearance of Hong Kong’s critics of the Chinese regime, as well as infringe upon the limited independence the semi-autonomous region enjoys. The bill was pulled in September, but the protesters have additional demands,...

Joshua Brown, a key witness in the shooting of Botham Jean by off-duty police officer Amber Guyger, was shot and killed outside his own apartment on Saturday evening. Guyger was recently sentenced to 10 years in prison for shooting Jean in his own apartment when she mistook it for her own. Brown’s death comes 10 days following his testimony at Guyger’s trial and a mere two days after Guyger was sentenced.

Brown was “shot several times by an unknown assailant” in his apartment complex, according to civil rights attorney Lee Merritt,...

After the casting controversy leading into its current season, “Saturday Night Live” is now under fire for a lack of Latinx casting that was made even more apparent during its 45th season premiere.

The issue was highlighted by one of the series’ political sketches that excluded Democratic presidential candidates Julián Castro. The sketch in question featured impressions of nine of the other candidates (out of the full 19), with two of the candidates played by celebrity guests instead of “SNL” cast members.

But the Castro omission was especially glaring as the sketch took up over 10 minutes of airtime, featured “SNL” co-head writer Colin Jost in a rare sketch appearance, and included a Marianne Williamson impression (from “SNL” newcomer Chloe Fineman), despite Williamson failing to qualify for the last Democratic presidential candidate debate.

It led to discussions on Twitter about “SNL’s” patterns of erasure from other comedians:

The erasure of Julian...

The Trump administration released a document memorializing his conversation with Ukraine’s president. The memo, produced by government note-takers in the White House Situation Room, reads like a transcript. It records the president pressuring his Ukrainian counterpart to work with Trump consigliere Rudy Giuliani and Attorney General William Barr to dig up dirt on Joe Biden. When the Ukrainian president brings up his desire to obtain a U.S. weapons system, Trump responds, “I would like you to do us a favor though….”

The reaction from Trump’s Democratic 2020 rivals has been unvarnished,...

Pose actress and star of the next installment of American Horror Story Angelica Ross will host the national 2020 Presidential Candidate Forum on Lgbtq Issues. Confirmed to participate are Joe Biden, Cory Booker, Pete Buttigieg, Julián Castro, Tulsi Gabbard, Kamala Harris, Amy Klobuchar, Joe Sestak, Elizabeth Warren and Marianne Williamson. The forum is presented by GLAAD, One Iowa, The Gazette and The Advocate and will be livestreamed from Coe College’s Sinclair Auditorium in Cedar Rapids, Iowa on September 20 at 7 P.M. Ct. Country artist and contestant on season 11 of The Voice Billy Gilman is set to perform the National Anthem at the event.

As a transgender activist, Ross is an ideal host for the forum. Ross will join GLAAD President and CEO Sarah Kate Ellis on the stage as they bring Lgbtq specific-issues to the forefront of discussion in the 2020 presidential election. During the Forum, each candidate will discuss their...

On Saturday night, the New York Times reported a third incident of unwanted sexual conduct by now Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh. The event allegedly took place while Kavanaugh was a college student at Yale and was witnessed by classmate Max Steir, who “saw Mr. Kavanaugh with his pants down at a different drunken dorm party, where friends pushed his penis into the hand of a female student,” according to the Times.

The Times piece also focused on the allegations made by Deborah Ramirez, another Yale classmate of Kavanaugh’s...

Democrats need an antiracist nominee against a racist like Donald Trump. The third debate confirmed that the former vice president isn’t up to the task.

Rahm Emanuel helped Chicago police cover up Laquan McDonald’s murder for more than a year, but ABC viewers Thursday night had to listen to him say he thought Julián Castro had been too unkind to Joe Biden. Since it requires the least analysis and garners the most eyeballs, the punditry after presidential debates tends to be focused primarily upon the most tense moments,...

Last night, Vice President Joe Biden and Senator Elizabeth Warren finally stood next to each other on the debate stage, after being separated during the multiple previous Democratic debates so far.

ABC’s debate, which featured fewer candidates, fewer sounds bite moments of disagreement and a couple of protester interruptions, was watched by an average of 14 million viewers across both ABC and Univision and scored a 10.0 household metered market rating. That represents a 23% bump in rating on the second NBC debate on June 27, but also a 23% decrease on the record-breaking 18.1 million viewers who tuned in to NBC, MSNBC and Telemundo.

That viewership figure is down on the first NBC debate which was watched by 15.3 million viewers, but tops the 10.7 million and 9 million who tuned in for the two debates hosted by CNN. None of the Democratic debates so far in this cycle have come near to the 24 million viewership figure...

After the third Democratic debate of 2019 finished Thursday in Houston, late-night host Stephen Colbert went live to offer his political and social commentary on the top 10 polling candidates. 

On the debate stage were Minnesota Sen. Amy Klobuchar, New Jersey Sen. Cory Booker, South Bend, Indiana, Mayor Pete Buttigieg, Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders. former Vice President Joe Biden, Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren, California Sen. Kamala Harris, Entrepreneur Andrew Yang, former Texas Rep. Beto O'Rourke, and former Housing and Urban Development Secretary Julián Castro.

The Late Show with Stephen Colbert began with a parody to "Deep in ...

Julián Castro insinuation that former Vice President Joe Biden was losing his memory was the most-tweeted-about moment of Thursday's Democratic Debate.

During a heated discussion about health care, Castro quizzed Biden over whether he was himself clear about his policy plans by asking pointedly: "Are you forgetting what you said two minutes ago?” Castro has faced staunch criticism for the comment, with pundits and candidates alike suggesting it was too personal.

The second-most-tweeted-about moment was when Biden said that parents should "make sure you have the record player on at night," which was ...

As the Democratic field of White House wannabes starts to shrink, so too do opportunities for TV-news outlets to showcase them in clashes with each other.

ABC News said Thursday it would televise just one night of debates among Democratic hopefuls for 2020, as opposed to the two nights it had previously planned. ABC’s September 12th coverage will feature ten candidates, reflecting the fact that a good chunk of those campaigning for the job had failed to reach the next level of support to participate in the event, organized by the Democratic National Committee.

The event will also be televised by Spanish-language broadcaster Univision. The two networks will telecast the event between 8:00 p.m. and 11:00 p.m. eastern from Texas Southern University.

George Stephanopoulos, David Muir, and Linsey Davis from ABC News and and Jorge Ramos from Univision will moderate the debate, which is slated to include former Vice President Joe Biden,...

A day after a Monmouth University poll found longtime frontrunner Joe Biden trailing Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, an Emerson University poll has the former vice president on top by a comfortable margin.

Conducted between August 24th-26th with a 3.9 percent margin of error, the poll has 31 percent of Democratic primary voters favoring Biden, followed by Sanders (24 percent), Elizabeth Warren (15), Kamala Harris (10), and Andrew Yang (4). Pete Buttigieg, Cory Booker, and Tulsi Gabbard all drew 3 percent support; Beto O’Rourke drew 2 percent; and Amy Klobuchar, Julián Castro, and “Someone Else” all drew 1 percent.

Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris will now participate in the Climate Crisis Town Hall on September 4th, changing her prior plans to skip the event, her campaign has confirmed to Rolling Stone.

The California Senator altered her schedule less than a day after CNN reported that she had refuse their invitation to participate in the September 4th event, citing a scheduling conflict. “We were happy to change our schedule to accommodate such a critical conversation,” said Harris communications director Lily Adams. “As Senator Harris has said, this is a climate...

Julián Castro will participate in the Democratic primary’s climate town hall next month after meeting host CNN’s polling threshold, the campaign’s national press secretary confirmed to Rolling Stone Tuesday.

CNN had previously stated that it would limit invitations to those candidates who had received at least 2 percent in at least four polls approved by the Democratic National Committee conducted between June 28 and August 21.

“As local and federal executive, Julián hasn’t just talked about the importance of solving the climate crisis — he’s got the record to prove his commitment,...

Julián Castro plans a rude interruption of Donald Trump’s executive time Wednesday. The Democratic White House hopeful has bought a half-minute of ad time on Potus’ go-to appointment show, Fox News Channel’s Fox & Friends, to deliver a personal message to the president.

“As we saw in El Paso,” the former Hud secretary says on camera, “Americans were killed because you stoked the fire of racists. Innocent people were shot down because they look different from you because they look like me. They look like my family.”

Watch the ad below.

Castro is among a number of Dem presidentlal candidates who have labeled Trump a “racist” and/or “white supremascist” since the August 3 shooting in which 22 innocents lost their lives. Castro doesn’t go there in the ad but makes it clear that he believes the president’s rhetoric inspired the shooter.

Trump went to the Texas border city...

Immigration officials on Wednesday raided a series of food-processing plants in Mississippi, arresting 680 suspected undocumented immigrants. It could be the biggest workplace immigration enforcement action in a single state, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s acting director Matthew Albence told the Associated Press. Children of the immigrants were left behind without their parents, left to rely on friends and strangers for food and shelter.

The raids targeted workers at seven Mississippi chicken processing plants. Around 600 Immigrations and Customs Enforcement officials surrounded the plants to prevent anyone from escaping. Some...

President Trump and Republicans have blamed the media, the internet, video games, mental health, and a lack of prayer in schools for the mass shooting epidemic in the United States, which was brought back into focus over the weekend after shootings in El Paso and Dayton that left at least 31 dead. White nationalism has also been rightly pinpointed by some members of the Gop, but Trump’s name has been left out of their vague denunciations of the hatred fueling these massacres. Democrats haven’t been so vague. Several of...

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:

“It is on every single one of us to make this right”: Beto O’Rourke holds back tears while reacting to the news of a deadly shooting in his hometown of El Paso,...

The second night of CNN’s Democratic presidential debates averaged 10.722 million total viewers, 3.031 million of which were adults aged 25-54, which was a 23% increase over the previous night, which had 8.7 million viewers.

The digital stream also had 3.1 million live starts, according to the network.

The second night, which took place in Detroit, just like the first, included protesters and heated debate between the presidential candidates. In total, 10 candidates debated one another. Sen. Michael Bennet, Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand, former Hud secretary Julián Castro, Sen. Cory Booker, former Vice President Joe Biden, Sen. Kamala Harris, entrepreneur Andrew Yang, Rep. Tulsi Gabbard, Gov. Jay Inslee, and Mayor Bill de Blasio were all on stage.

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The previous night, ten others debated: Gov. Steve Bullock, Mayor Pete Buttigieg, former Rep. John Delaney, former Gov. John Hickenlooper, Sen. Amy Klobuchar,...

The second night of the Democratic primary debates in Michigan paid off with a genuine fight night, featuring Joe Biden against all comers.

For more than three hours Wednesday night at the Fox Theater in Detroit, Democratic rivals took jabs at the former vice president, seeking to portray the the 2020 frontrunner as a relic of the party’s past who’s unfit to carry its banner today. Kamala Harris swung at him on health care. Julián Castro and Bill de Blasio hit him over Obama-era deportations. Cory Booker connected on criminal justice reform.

Sen. Cory Booker was in the middle of his opening statement at tonight’s Democratic debate when he was interrupted by protesters’ shouts from the audience. The lawmaker from New Jersey stopped speaking, and CNN and its moderators waited for the heckling to play out.

At least three protesters yelled slogans including “Fire Pantaleo!” before being escorted out of the hall in Detroit. The reference apparently was to Daniel Pantaleo, the NYPD officer who put a chokehold on Eric Garner that was caught on video and led to Garner repeating “I can’t breathe!” several times. A Staten Island grand jury this month declined to indict Pantaleo over the incident.

Booker was calling out Donald Trump’s takedown of Baltimore and its people and politicians when the yells began. Moderator Jake Tapper asked Booker to “Stand by, senator” and he agreed. The lawmaker stood quietly at the podium for 25 seconds...

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.

Also Read: Democratic Debate Match-Ups Set: Biden Vs. Harris; Sanders Vs. Warren

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

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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Washington — The conventional wisdom that followed the first Democratic presidential debates looked something like this:

Kamala Harris: dominant. Julián Castro: ascendant. Joe Biden: eviscerated.

Harris and Castro were deemed the victors of round one of the DNC Battle Royale 2019. Biden was the clear loser and he knew it: The former vice president waved the white flag onstage in Miami when he cut himself off mid-answer and told the moderators, “My time is up. I’m sorry.”

Yet a month later, the Democratic primary field looks a lot...

ABC News confirmed Texas Southern University in Houston will host the third Democratic debate in September, as the field starts to shrink from its original cavalcade of two dozen hopefuls.

ABC and Univision are hosting the debate on September 12 and, if necessary, September 13.

In announcing the host location on Sunday morning, ABC’s George Stephanopoulos noted that the Democratic National Committee’s qualification bar is rising for candidates, which will help winnow the field.

The polling threshold for the September debates doubles from the previous level of 1% to 2%, and the number of individual donors also doubles from 65,000 to 130,000. Eight candidates — Joe Biden, Beto O’Rourke, Pete Buttigieg, Kamala Harris, Elizabeth Warren, Bernie Sanders, Julián Castro and Andrew Yang — are currently above the donor threshold, Stephanopoulos said. Just six — Biden, O’Rourke, Buttigieg, Harris, Warren and Sanders — have hit both the donor and polling targets, though there are still several weeks...

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...

The fields for the second Democratic debates are set. Twenty candidates have qualified for the event, which will be broadcast live from Detroit. Given the size of the field, the debates will be split across two nights.

Ten presidential candidates will debate on Tuesday, July 30. The remaining ten will debate on Wednesday, July 31 at 8pm Et on CNN.

CNN held three separate draws on Thursday night, ensuring candidates with similar levels of support in qualifying polls were spread out across both nights. The first debates, held in Miami, were criticized as uneven, with four of the top five candidates sharing the stage on the second night.

Also Read: Andrew Yang Addresses Mic-Cutting Dispute During First Presidential Debate (Video)

The fields are similar to those from the first debate, with one replacement. Rep. Eric Swalwell exited the race after the first debate. He will be replaced in the second debates by Montana Gov.

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.

The 2020 Presidential Democratic candidates are here to give E! readers a rare glimpse inside who they really are—and we dig deep to find out their pop culture favorites, must-haves and much, much more! We asked left-leaning politicians like Kamala Harris, Cory Booker, Pete Buttigieg, Julián Castro, Bill de Blasio and more a series of questions that will show them in an entirely new light and now we're peeling back the curtain to reveal what they enjoy when they aren't hitting the grueling campaign trial ahead of the highly anticipated election next year. But don't just take our word for it...Find out which of the candidates above is a huge fan...

On CNN’s State of the Union on Sunday, Democratic presidential candidate and former Secretary of Housing and Urban Development Julián Castro went after President Donald Trump’s son for sharing and then deleting a racist tweet, calling Donald Trump Jr. a “coward.”

Host Brianna Keilar asked Castro about a quote tweet that Trump Jr. shared that questioned whether Senator Kamala Harris was actually black.

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“It’s disgusting,” Castro said. “It has no place in our politics. This is the game that these folks play.

After two nights, four hours, and 20 candidates, the first Democratic debate of the 2020 presidential campaign is in the bag. While a handful of competitors shined onstage in Miami, many more had nights they’d rather forget.

Below is our consolidated report card from the big show in South Florida:

Kamala Harris: A

Harris dominated the Miami debates. She spoke with precision and passion, but most important, she proved she could take the fight to the frontrunner, bloody her opponent, and emerge nearly unscathed. If Democrats are looking for a...