The first Democratic electoral debate of the candidates for the presidential nomination by the DNC will be held at the Adrienne Arsht Center in Miami,reported Friday that political force and NBC News.
Due to the large number of Democratic candidates, the debate will take place in two sessions, on June 26 and 27, with 10 candidates in each of them.
To be in one of these groups, the rules of the Democratic National Committee (DNC) establish that the candidates must have achieved at least 1% of intention to vote in three of the main national surveys or that more than 65,000 people have made economic contributions to their campaigns, regardless of their amount.
Until today, at least 18 candidates for the Democratic presidential nomination have achieved one of these two requirements and may be part of the debate, according to an analysis by NBC News.
The two-hour debates will be broadcast live on the NBC, MSNBC and Telemundo networks, in the latter case with simultaneous translation into Spanish, and they can also be viewed on “streaming” by various platforms through the Internet.
In the coming weeks new details will be announced, such as the moderators and the format, of some debates in which the order of intervention of each one of the participants will be decided by lot.
In this first Democratic electoral debate ahead of the 2020 presidential elections, the main differences between the Democratic candidates to succeed the Republican Donald Trump in the White House are expected to begin to be defined.
The DNC had previously announced in March its plans to organize the first debate in Miami, but until this Friday the exact place was unknown, which will finally be the Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts, which since 2006 has usually hosted concerts, plays and musical and educational programs.
This center belongs to Miami Dade College, the university center with the largest number of students in the United States and which, in 2016, hosted on its Kendall campus the Republican and Democratic debates that took place in South Florida.
When it was announced in March that Miami would be the venue, Tom Perez, president of the party, had said that this “vibrant and dynamic” city reflects the values and diversity of the Democratic Party “and that there was no” better place “to start the round of debates.
