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Primary Debates
Thursday, Sept. 12, 2019 in Houston, TX.
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Grab / ABC News |
8:00
to 11:00 p.m. ET at Texas Southern University.
Sponsor:
ABC News in partnership with Univision.
Candidates: Biden,
Booker, Buttigieg, Castro, Harris, Klobuchar, O'Rourke,
Sanders, Warren, Yang.
Moderators: Chief Anchor George Stephanopoulos, “World News Tonight” Anchor and Managing Editor David Muir, ABC News Correspondent Linsey Davis and Univision Anchor Jorge Ramos.
Audience: 3,500 people, most
invited by the Democratic National Committee.
Broadcast: Live nationally on
the ABC Television Network and Univision (with a Spanish
translation) and locally on KTRK-TV. ABC News will
livestream the debate on ABC News Live –
the network’s 24/7 breaking news
Format: One minute and 15
seconds for direct responses to questions and 45 seconds
for responses and rebuttals. One minute opening
statements.
Overview: Much changed since
the second debate on July 30-31. The stricter DNC
criteria narrowed the field participating in this debate
to just ten candidates. Hickenlooper (Aug. 15),
Inslee (Aug. 21), Moulton (Aug. 23) and Gillibrand (Aug.
28) ended their campaigns in the lead up to this
debate. Excluded candidates were: Bennet, Bullock,
de Blasio, Delaney, Gabbard, Ryan, Sestak, Steyer and
Williamson, along with pseudo-candidate Messam.
Gabbard and Steyer came close to qualifying, as they met
the contribution criteria but fell one poll short of the
four qualifying polls. This was the first head to
head matchup between the major candidates.
There were no closing
statements, but an interesting last question for all
candidates: "The question is on the quality of
resilience. No president can succeed without
resilience; every president confronts crises, defeats and
mistakes. So I want to ask each of you, what's the
most significant professional setback you've had to face,
how did you recover from it, and what did you learn from
it?" Biden was first to answer, and had just started
his response when several protesters in the audience
started shouting about immigration policy and deportations
and were escorted out.
Biden had the most speaking
time, more than 17 minutes, and Yang the least, a bit less
than 8 minutes. The debate drew an average total
audience of about 14 million viewers, 12.93 million who
watched on ABC and 1.11 million on Univision.
Biden |
Warren |
Booker | Sanders | Harris | Buttigieg | Castro | Klobuchar | O'Rourke | Yang | ||
ABC News | 17.22 |
16:15 |
13:48 |
13:42 |
13:42 |
11:52 |
11:09 |
10:08 |
9:25 |
7:55 |
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CNN |
17.24 |
16:27 |
14:44 |
13:55 |
13:26 |
11:31 |
11:11 |
10:13 |
9:19 |
7:54 |